The Data Stack Show

On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds are joined by Slapdash co-founder Ivan Kanevski. Slapdash describes itself as the operating system for work. Slapdash emphasizes reducing the time people spend controlling their computer in relation to the time they spend expressing their intent.

Key topics discussed were:

• Starting Slapdash and expanding on tools from working at Facebook (3:31)
• Being client agnostic and working with the tools that people bring to the job (7:35)
• Distinctions between mouse-centric and keyboard-centric users (12:58)
• Slapdash’s approach to collecting data (16:08)
• Building Slapdash to scale and using Postgres (19:45)
• Using a graph model and a focus on efficiency (24:50)
• Challenges of reducing latency (29:35)
• Opening up Slapdash to be programmable (38:17)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

This week on The Data Stack Show, Kostas and Eric are joined by Axel Delafosse, founder and CEO of Pool, a messaging app designed to help couples spend less time deciding what to do and spend more time together. Axel shares his story of how he went from having his idea being shot down in person by Paul Graham to being accepted for Y Combinator. While Pool is still a young startup, Axel offers wise insight from lessons he’s learned along the way.

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

• Pool Messenger, “the ultimate antidote to decision paralysis” (2:50)
• Pitching to Paul Graham and applying to YC (6:17)
• The importance of the co-founder relationship (14:01)
• The YC experience and losing Facebook’s API (17:37)
• Products die, relationships last (22:05)
• Breaking down the data stack (28:50)
• Using data and conversations with users to evaluate the experience (36:12)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds are joined by Nic Discepoli for the first of two conversations about Ruby, a startup where he is the customer analytics lead. This Nashville-based company is designed to help families navigate their financial situation in some of life’s most challenging moments, often corresponding with a medical event. Their conversation included topics like:

• Launching Ruby and Nic’s involvement in the company (3:35)
• Realizing that tracking data manually on spreadsheets was no longer sustainable (7:07)
• Rundown of Ruby’s toolset (9:50)
• Challenges with data quality (14:27)
• Using unique IDs and following UTM parameters through the stack (21:04)
• Recalculating customer acquisition cost with data (33:05)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Introducing a special edition of the show with the cynical data guy (0:19)
• Metadata and LLMs (2:32)
• Data-driven culture (8:44)
• No-code orchestration tools (17:09)
• No Code vs. Low Code (19:58)
• Enterprise Challenges with No Code Solutions (20:08)
• No Code Tools for Small Companies (21:40)
• Inappropriate Use of Tools (23:06)
• Final thoughts and takeaways (24:05)

The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.