105: The Modern Data Stack Is Just Getting Started with Astasia Myers of Quiet Capital
This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Astasia Myers, founding partner at Quiet Capital. During the episode, Astasia discusses the limit of solution complexity, early-stage acquisition, and data-centric ML.
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Show Notes
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:
- Astasia’s background and career journey (3:03)
- How Astasia evaluates data companies (5:25)
- Defining “modern data stack” (8:39)
- The limit of the complexity of a solution (18:44)
- How risky early-stage acquisition really is (26:15)
- Flashing headlight advice for investing (30:17)
- Signs you should do a product integration (33:38)
- The next data infrastructure opportunities (36:19)
- The likelihood of two data worlds merging (43:55)
- How important open source is (49:14)
- Data-centric ML (53:47)
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