Founder Interview Video
How data.world Raised $132M Total and Built a Team of 150 to Disrupt the Enterprise Data Catalog Market (Interview with CEO and Co-founder Brett Hurt)
Chapters
- 0:00Intro: Brett Hurt's Background and Prior Companies
- 1:54Bazaar Voice: Origins and Market Timing
- 9:12Coremetrics: Early SaaS Model and IBM Acquisition
- 14:54Bazaar Voice Capital Efficiency and IPO
- 16:37data.world: Founding Story and Launch
- 17:09Competing Against Alation and Collibra
- 17:46Revenue Timeline: No Revenue Until 2018
- 19:49Funding: $132M Raised, Goldman Sachs Series C
- 21:41Pricing Model and Enterprise Deployment
- 22:10Team Size and Engineering Efficiency
- 23:41Open Data Community vs. Paid Enterprise Catalog
- 27:53Favorite Tools: GitHub Copilot and Generative AI
- 29:01Famous Five: Books, Sleep, Family
- 31:00Advice: Believe in Yourself Earlier