27: Building Open Source Data Startup with Airbyte CEO, Michel Tricot

We talk with Michel Tricot, who is the Founder and CEO of Airbyte, which is an open source data integration Y Combinator startup. It has raised over $30M in capital and has been growing quite fast. It was a great conversation and I think you will also enjoy it. 🎉

We cover lots of things in the podcast including: 

1. Technical aspects of what Airbyte does, how it sits in the ETL/ ELT landscape, how it differs from other tools such as Fivetran, Stich etc. 

2. Data Warehouses being a canonical source of data and how Airbyte helps with bringing the data into the warehouse. 

3. How Airbyte works as an open source data tool. 

4. Life aspects of running a fast growing start-up including raising capital, hiring etc. 

Links to the tools/ services mentioned: 

1. Airbyte: airbyte.io

2. Airbyte Slack where you can talk with the team: slack.airbyte.io 

3. Dbt for transformation in ELT: getdbt.com 

4. Airflow which is a data orchestration tool: https://airflow.apache.org/

5. Astronomer which can host Airflow: https://astronomer.io/ 

Pay as you use data warehouses: 

6. Snowflake Data Warehouse: https://www.snowflake.com/

7. BigQuery Data Warehouse: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery 

Set up your own infrastructure: 

8. Redshift Data Warehouse: https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/