169: Data Models: From Warehouse to Business Impact with Tasso Argyros of ActionIQ

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• The Evolution of Databases and Data Systems (2:33)
• Abstracting Data for Business Users (4:31)
• Building a Database for Google-like Search (7:58)
• The Big Data Explosion (11:10)
• Selling Myspace as First Customer (13:14)
• Starting ActionIQ (16:57)
• The customer-centric organization (22:46)
• Transitioning to customer data focus (23:53)
• Understanding business users' needs (28:30)
• Supporting Arbitrary Queries and Data Models (34:42)
• Unique Technical Perspective of Clickstream Data (37:01)
• The value per terabyte of data (46:45)
• Building a product for multiple personas (50:45)
• Composability and Benefits (58:05)
• Evolution of Storage and Compute (1:00:09)
• Composability and Treasure Data (1:02:10)

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