In this episode, David and I discussed how to start a businesses and the tactical side of product development and data.

In this episode, I speak with Howard Koenig, the CEO of Perspecta about data as a service businesses.

Executive data recruiter extraordinaire, Jeremy Wyatt, joins the Delivery Layer podcast to share all the secrets he's learned in 15+ years of helping companies hire data leaders and teams. Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 2:42 - What Companies Get Wrong When Building Data Teams 8:00 - Why Hiring Leaders Fails 13:00 - Differences Between Top-Level Data Leaders and Low-Level 15:55 - The Key Data Characteristics that Drive Business Success 18:53 - How Has The Data Market Changed Over Time 23:36 - We All Know You Need Business Impact - Why Isn't It Happening? 27::05 - Insights on the Challenges of Hiring vs. Looking for a Job 32:05 - Why Companies Get So Many Applicants 35:24 - What Success Looks Like 39:41 - The Most Impactful Things For Data People 45:33 - How to Follow Jeremy

Solomon talks with Chris Tabb and Matt Housley about their upcoming work on data monetization, and how data leaders can prove business value inside their organizations. 0:00 - Intro & Trailer 1:04 - Business Value & Data Monetization 3:45 - Three models for funding data projects and teams 9:20 - Why is that different than what should have happened already? 13:00 - Level of Risk 17:40 - How do you track value driven? 24:20 - Can you measure the value of better decisions? 30:50 - Who is in charge of driving business impact, data teams or business teams? 36:15 - What are the political challenges that hold data leaders back? 39:00 - How to manage conflicting and competing metrics 43:45 - What advice would you give to a CEO for how to evaluate their data teams? 49:30 - What are some things individual data people can do to drive impact? 54:40 - Where can people follow Matt & Chris?

There's a secret data job that's never been advertised, and it turns out @josephreis and I both had it. Check out the latest Delivery Layer podcast episode to learn what it was 😀 We also chat about Joe's personal career history, as well as his thoughts on where data engineering should fit as a business priority. You're probably used to Joe interviewing other people, now you get to hear from him.

In this episode I talk with Maya Mikhailov, founder and CEO of SAVVI AI about Machine Learning for Everyone.

Scott Breitenother, Founder & CEO of Brooklyn Data Company, chats about his journey in data, and how companies are better leveraging modern data tools to drive value.