The Creator of Airflow About His Recipe for Smart Data-Driven Companies

According to Maxime Beauchemin, CEO & Founder at Preset and Creator of Apache Superset and Apache Airflow, building a thriving company is not so straight-forward. So how did he do it? Choosing the right system and services is key for a successful start, and can help you avoid the chaos of having too many tools spread across multiple teams. Max walks the Bros through his recipe for a smart data-driven company, and the genesis of Airflow, Superset & Presto (with some great tidbits about Airflow's old school marketing approach and how the open source platform took on a life of its own).

According to Maxime Beauchemin, CEO & Founder at Preset and Creator of Apache Superset and Apache Airflow, it's not so straight-forward to understand what you're really getting into and the vastness of the skills that are required in order to build a thriving company.

Picking the right system and services is key for a successful start, and can help you avoid the chaos of having too many tools spread across multiple teams.

Plus, Max walks the bros through the genesis of Airflow, Superset & Presto, and Airflow's old school marketing approach that won the hearts of developers across the world. And just like the terminator, once the machine takes over, you can't stop.

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