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The Data TModel as You Go: A New Take on BIIn this episode of The Data T podcast, Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sit down with Colin Zima, co-founder and CEO of Omni, to talk about what it takes to reinvent business intelligence. Colin shares his journey from Looker’s early days to building Omni, the lessons learned along the way, and his philosophy of ruthless pragmatism when it comes to data modeling, product development, and AI. The conversation dives deep into the evolving BI landscape, the importance of semantics in AI, and how building trust—whether with customers or stakeholders—can be the real engine of innovation. If you're...2025-06-1041 minThe Data TData Therapy in the Age of Relentless Innovation and AIIn this episode of The Data T podcast, Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi talk with Nicho Mann, founder and CEO of Stratos Consulting, about the emotional and operational challenges facing data professionals today. Nicho introduces the idea of “data therapy” — a way to talk about the mounting pressure, backlog, and burnout that teams are experiencing as AI hype accelerates. With firsthand stories from the biotech and pharmaceutical space, he explains how many companies are overwhelmed, under-resourced, and unsure how to move forward. The conversation digs into how to focus on what matters, where AI is genuinely helping, and why a more...2025-05-0833 minThe Data TAI-Driven Data CatalogsFresh off the announcement of Coalesce acquiring AI-driven data catalog company CastorDoc, now Coalesce Catalog, co-founders Tristan Mayer and Xavier de Boisredon join the Data T podcast to talk about how it all came together, why his marks a major shift in the industry, how the Modern Data Stack is evolving, and what’s next.The conversation highlights both companies’ shared vision of making data governance simpler, more intuitive, and embedded early in the data lifecycle. The founders break down three categories of AI applications in data—AI-assisted governance, metadata-driven analytics, and enterprise AI use cases—and stress h...2025-04-0345 minThe Data TData Hot Takes with Joe ReisIn this episode of The Data T, Joe Reis returns to discuss his journey since his last appearance on our podcast. We chat about the lasting impact of his book, Fundamentals of Data Engineering, and his latest focus on data modeling. Data modeling is the focus of Joe’s upcoming book, Practical Data Modeling, which he is writing publicly on his Substack.We also explore broader industry trends, including the hype around AI, the resurgence of data governance, and shifting perspectives on data modeling methodologies. Tune in to hear Joe’s candid takes on the impact of AI-g...2025-04-0146 minThe Data T2025 Data Predictions with Tejas ManoharWelcome to the Data T! In our first podcast episode for 2025, hosts Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi chat with Tejas Manohar, co-CEO and co-founder of Hightouch, about his predictions for the year ahead. The conversation covers the top trends in generative AI, customer engagement, and data infrastructure, with a deep dive into AI Decisioning, the latest innovation from Hightouch that uses continuous experimentation and reinforcement learning to optimize marketing strategies. Manohar provides insights into how organizations can better leverage their data platforms to activate data for marketing and operations, discusses the challenges in implementing Large...2025-01-2430 minThe Data TSAP Migrations with David Richert and Edwin CommandeurIn the final episode of Coffee with Coalesce for 2024, we travel to Europe to chat with David Richert, SAP Modernization Evangelist and Principal Sales Engineer at Snowflake, and Edwin Commandeur, Principal Field Product Manager (SAP) at Fivetran, about the challenges and innovations in data management and migration, particularly in the context of SAP systems.Hosted by Damien Walker and Glen Dawson, the conversation explores the benefits of shifting from application-centric to data-centric approaches to data management and highlights strategies for overcoming technical and organizational barriers in SAP migrations.Key topics include:Transitioning from application-centric...2024-12-1340 minThe Data TData Orchestration with Hugo LuIn this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, Hugo Lu, CEO and founder of Orchestra, joins hosts Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi to share the company’s founding story, discuss the challenges of building and selling an orchestration platform in an already crowded data space, his predictions on the main trends in data for 2025, and more. Listen to the full episode to find out more about:Orchestra’s founding storyChallenges in data orchestrationThe importance of data governanceEnabling a successful data mesh implementationNavigating a crowded data spaceIs column-level lineage really necessary?Inspiration from business leaders, and more.Watc...2024-11-1942 minThe Data TSemantic Layer Innovation with Artyom Keydunov and Pavel TiunovIn this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, Cube co-founders Artyom Keydunov and Pavel Tiunov discuss their journey with Cube, from starting out as a side project to a successful company that recently raised its Series B funding round. The discussion touches on Cube’s founding story, innovating the semantic layer with a universal approach, and their data management strategy. Listen to the full episode for more on:Cube’s founding story: The company’s origins as an open-source project focused on embedding BI tools into Slack, eventually pivoting to creating a universal semantic layer.Semantic layer...2024-10-2947 minThe Data TThe Modern Data Stack with Taylor BrownIn this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, Taylor Brown, COO and co-founder of Fivetran, shares the origin story of the company and how Fivetran has helped pioneer the Modern Data Stack. Taylor dives into the challenges of building Fivetran, the company’s mission to make data as accessible and reliable as electricity, and the impact of their innovations on the data industry.In this episode:The origin of Fivetran and its mission to simplify data ingestionsThe origin of the Modern Data StackData accessibility and infrastructure innovationFivetran’s hybrid deployment modelScaling management structures as a co-founderThe future of d...2024-10-0447 minThe Data TData Mesh with Una GalyevaWe’re excited to welcome Una Galyeva, Data & AI Consultant with Honest Data and AI Consulting, to chat about data mesh.Topics covered in this episode include the reality of data mesh implementations vs the theoretical concepts, use cases where implementing data mesh makes sense, assembling the right team for a successful transition to a data mesh structure, and more.Hosted by Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi.2024-08-2349 minThe Data TThe Future of BI with Rob WoollenIn the latest episode of our data podcast, we welcome Rob Woollen, Co-founder and CTO of Sigma Computing, to chat about the future of BI, the journey of developing Sigma, finding product market fit, and the company’s success. In this episode you'll hear Rob's take on:the future of spreadsheets and SQLaddressing the largest bottlenecks in analytics use casesthe impact of Gen AI and LLMs on BIchallenges in AI interface designthe potential of AI for productivity, and more.2024-07-1644 minThe Data TThe 10X Data Engineer with Gu XieIn this episode of the Coffee with Coalesce podcast, we chat with Gu Xie, Head of Data Engineering at Group 1001, about the secret to building highly performant data engineering teams. Hint: It’s not about finding super-talented, highly-skilled professionals that are 10x more productive than their peers. Rather, it’s about enabling developer velocity: creating an environment where every engineer can be highly productive, and enabling them with the tools and platforms that are pivotal to that productivity.Tune in to hear more and bring your questions for our guest and hosts, Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Sati...2024-05-2842 min
#TrueDataOpsArmon Petrossian & Satish Jayanthi - #TrueDataOps Podcast Ep.35In this episode of the #TrueDataOps Podcast, host Kent Graziano, the Data Warrior, interviews Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi, co-founders of Coalesce.io. They discuss their backgrounds in data management and the creation of Coalesce.io, a platform focused on resolving issues in the data transformation layer with metadata-driven automation.
Armon and Satish emphasize the importance of dataops, describing it as a set of best practices from development to deployment, with a strong focus on automation to reduce errors and improve data quality. They discuss their partnership with dataops.Live and how both organizations aim to promote...2024-05-1527 minThe Data TInvesting in Data and AI Startups with Joe Floyd and Saad SiddiquiIn this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, we chat with Joe Floyd, General Partner at Emergence Capital, and Saad Siddiqui, General Partner at Telstra Ventures. Venture capital plays a pivotal role in guiding new companies and technologies to market, and our guests have had a first-row seat to the fast and furious growth and innovation happening in the industry over the past decade.Ten years ago hardly anyone had heard of Snowflake. Just two years ago, LLMs were an obscure acronym known only to those deeply immersed in AI and ML. Today, it seems like AI is...2024-05-0345 min
Fund/Build/ScaleFund/Build/Scale mini-episode | From seed stage to Series A with Coalesce CEO Armon Petrossian [Part 2]In part two, Armon explained why he initially resisted investor advice to raise a Series A and spoke frankly about the challenges involved with stepping up into a leadership role, which led to some interesting talk about overcoming impostor syndrome, something a lot of us can relate to.
Part 2:
show Series A investors market opportunities you've already validated [1:51]
focusing on enterprise sales from the beginning was a winning strategy [3:40]
"we had an enterprise sales option straight from the beginning' [5:21]
why he hired a full-time salesperson as soon as Coalesce exited stealth [6:52]
how he connected with co-founder...2024-04-2221 minThe Data TDelivering on the Promise of the Modern Data Stack with Hightouch Co-Founder Kashish GuptaWe’re excited to welcome Kashish Gupta, co-founder and co-CEO of Hightouch, the number-one composable customer data platform (CDP) that is revolutionizing the way marketers activate their data. From semantic layers to taking advantage of cloud-native data warehouse architectures, tune in and bring your questions for our guest and hosts, Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi.2024-03-2546 minThe Data TData Modeling and AI with John Cosgrove and Kent GrazianoWe’re excited to welcome John Cosgrove and Kent Graziano to tackle the age-old topics of data management and data modeling in the new age of AI and LLMs. How can you get onboard the AI hype train and not end up in a train wreck? What if setting yourself up for success in the future depends more than ever on “old” ideas like hierarchies, semantics, models, taxonomies… in short, structure? Tune in to hear more and bring your questions for our guests and hosts, Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi.2024-02-2258 minThe Data TData Quality and Gen AI with Lior Gavish and Kent GrazianoWe’re excited to welcome Lior Gavish, CTO and Co-founder of data observability company Monte Carlo, as we kick off the new year with the topic on everyone’s mind: Generative AI. If 2023 was the year of gen AI talk, are organizations ready to walk the walk in 2024? And if the answer is “not yet” or “maybe?” – What can data leaders and teams do to set up their business with the proper foundation for success? Listen to the full episode to find out.2024-01-1843 minThe Data TBest of 2023 in Data with Felipe HoffaWhat do twinkies, weight loss, and LLMs have in common? Data may just have something to do with it. For our last podcast episode of 2023, we sit down with Felipe Hoffa, Data Cloud Advocate at Snowflake, to chat about his favorite and most memorable data trends and developments of the year. Listen to the full episode to find out which topics made the cut!2023-12-1256 minThe Data THow to Win the C-Suite's Support for Your Data Team with Matt Tischler and Michael TantrumSuccess for a data team today goes beyond technical expertise and a best-of-breed data stack; it hinges on the understanding and support of the C-Suite. In this Coffee with Coalesce episode, we’re excited to host two accomplished data leaders and executives who have mastered this art.Matthew Tischler, Chief Financial Officer of e-retailer RuffleButts and Michael Tantrum, National Sales Director at Resultant, join Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi to unravel the secrets of effectively communicating with top-level executives, gaining their buy-in, and ultimately ensuring a data team’s efforts are not just understood, but genu...2023-11-061h 01
The Data TThe Datapreneurs and the Future of Data and AI with Bob Muglia and Kent GrazianoWe’re extremely excited to welcome Bob Muglia to Coffee with Coalesce. The former Microsoft exec and Snowflake CEO doesn’t need an introduction in the data community: a legendary leader whose work has shaped our industry, Muglia joins us to talk about his new book, The Datapreneurs. Hosted by Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi, and Coalesce advisor Kent Graziano.Watch the full episode to hear Muglia and Graziano's take on:how AI and LLMs will change the Modern Data Stackhow AI and LLMs will change data engineeringthe future of S...2023-07-171h 00The Data TMake the Most of Snowflake Summit 2023 with Frank Bell and Kent GrazianoOn our latest Coffee with Coalesce episode, Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sat down with Frank Bell, Snowflake Evangelist and Snowflake Data Superhero, and Kent Graziano, Coalesce.io advisor and former Chief Technology Evangelist at Snowflake, to talk all things Snowflake Summit. Watch the full episode to learn how to make the most out of what we think is the best data event of the year and hear.About Coalesce:Founded in 2020, Coalesce is the only data transformation platform built for scale. Coalesce combines the speed of an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), the flexibility of code, and the efficiency...2023-07-171h 01The Data TGenerative AI and Data Modeling with Ethan Aaron and Sonny RiveraCoalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sat down with Ethan Aaron, CEO of Portable, and Sonny Rivera, senior analytics evangelist at Thoughtspot, to discuss the hottest topic in data and business today: Generative AI. Watch the full episode to hear our guests’ hottest takes, including:Top use cases for leveraging Generative AI in dataThe 80-20 approach for integrating Generative AI into your data workflowsRisks and concernsHow will Generative AI impact roles and careers within data teams?Are analytics jobs at risk?About Coalesce:Founded in 2020, Coalesce is the only data transformation platform built for scale. Coalesce combines the speed of...2023-07-171h 01The Data TDataOps with Chris Tabb and Collin GravesCoalesce Co-Founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sit down with Chris Tabb, Chief Commercial Officer and Co-Founder of LEIT Data, and Collin Graves, Founder of Northlabs, to talk all things DataOps.Watch the full episode to learn:What is DataOps and how is it similar to–and different from–DevOps and MLOps?What problems does DataOps solve?What are the biggest pitfalls of DataOps?How can data teams set themselves up for success within the larger organization and bring value to the business?About Coalesce:Founded in 2020, Coalesce is the only data transformation platform built for scale. Coalesce combines the spee...2023-07-171h 03The Data TThe State of Data Engineering with "Seattle Data Guy" Ben RogojanIn our latest Coffee with Coalesce episode, Coalesce CEO Armon Petrossian and Head of Customer Experience Stewart Bryson sat down with Benjamin Rogojan, a.k.a. Seattle Data Guy, to talk where 2023 is going for data and data teams.Watch the full episode to learn:Top expectations for data engineering teams in 2023, including how to measure the ROI of the teamBuild vs buy data platforms and solutions: rethinking decisions in today’s economyThe cost of compute vs the cost of people: which one matters more?Will 2023 finally be the year of data quality?How are data teams changing in today’s ec...2023-07-171h 03The Data TTransform Your Data Engineering Career with Joe Reis and Matt HousleyWe kicked off 2023 with a discussion on data engineering careers with two of the best known names in the field, Joe Reis and Matt Housley, authors of the best-selling book “Fundamentals of Data Engineering” (O’Reilly, 2022). Watch the full episode to learn:What are the biggest challenges facing data engineering teams?What parts of the analytics workflow is most challenging for organizations?What are the characteristics of a great data leader?Is today’s economy the catalyst the market needed to evolve and innovate?What is a data engineer’s role in...2023-07-171h 03The Data TData Contracts and Top Data Engineering Trends with Chad SandersonWe’re talking data engineering trends (and busts) with Chad Sanderson, head of data at Convoy. From data contracts and data mesh, to AI/ML and data governance and quality, we explore the main topics and pain points impacting your work today, and our predictions for 2023. Hosted by Coalesce CEO Armon Petrossian and CTO Satish Jayanthi.Watch the full episode to learn:What are data contracts: key definitionsWhy data and infrastructure problems inspired the idea for data contractsHow data contracts help enforce data governanceHow data contracts differ from AP...2023-07-1759 minThe Data TThe Future of Data Modeling with Kent Graziano and Matt FlorianData Modeling is back in vogue, but here’s the twist: there’s a better way to do it with tools and technology built for the cloud. Data veterans Kent Graziano and Matt Florian discuss data modeling best practices in the cloud era. Hosted by Coalesce CEO Armon Petrossian.Watch the full episode to learn:What is data modelingWhy data modeling took a backseat and the dangers of agileWhy is data modeling making a roaring comebackHow bad data modeling can drive up your compute costsHow can companies of various sizes approach data modeling to ensure a succ...2023-07-1758 minThe Data TTransforming Data at Enterprise Scale with Kent GrazianoWelcome to the first Coffee with Coalesce: a series of conversations with experts, thought leaders, and interesting people from the data community recorded live and available on demand at your podcast platform of choice!In this episode, Coalesce.io co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sat down with Kent Graziano to talk about the latest big disruption in the data space: automating data transformations. Find out what attracted Kent to Coalesce after he retired from his role as Chief Technical Evangelist at Snowflake, get a demo of the Coalesce product, and learn how its column-aware architecture will transform the...2023-07-171h 00
Monday Morning Data Chat#79 - Data Transformations in 2022 w/ Armon Petrossian & Satish Jayanthi (Coalesce.io)The data transformation tooling space is undergoing a sea change right now. Armon Petrossian & Satish Jayanthi from Coalesce.io join the show to talk about what's next in data transformations in 2022 and beyond.
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