Grouparoo Open Source Data Tools with Brian Leonard. Great way to collect and make use of your data
In today’s episode we talk to Brian Leonard, CEO of Grouparoo, about why open source tools are better than closed ones, problems and challenges in reverse ETL and data engineering overall, biggest and hardest engineering tasks in Brian’s career, how to pitch investors and approach price formation, in ways that are good for your business and for your customers.
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⌚Timestamps:
0:00 - Types of modern ETL companies
5:12 - Leader in the online and mobile marketplace
6:45 - The biggest data engineering problem at TaskRabbit
10:45 - Issues with reverse ETL
13:24 - Should everything be open source?
18:00 - Dominant tasks we face in the ecosystem of data engineering
21:10 - DBT success
29:17 - How to pitch Ed Romanov, infrastructure investor
36:08 - Brian and Jeff’s work experience back in Austin
40:33 - Approach to the data transfer problem
44:27- The way Grouparoo works with its clients
48:52 - Economics of data engineering business
54:52 - The hardest thing to integrate with Grouparoo
58:27 - What other business Brian would build if he didn’t have Grouparoo
59:41 - Low-code data engineering platforms
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