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Ry Walker

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
539 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

We just broke our 100,000-unit soul mark.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

I sure am.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

Oh, so you didn't understand any of that, huh?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

Damn it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

No, we're basically helping companies figure out how to use data to benefit their business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

We work with later stage startups.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

We work with some big companies too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

And really everyone's struggling.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

And well, there's an opportunity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

I'd say no one's really struggling, but

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

Everyone wants to figure out how to use data to, to make their business better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

Uh, there are a lot of great products, you know, that have merged over the past few years, but, um, well, I think like mixed panel, there's amplitude in the, in the, in the web analytics space, Google analytics is, it's obviously pretty dominant.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

Um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

But with the rise of data science, a lot of companies are trying to get a hold of their raw data so that they can do more interesting things with it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

And so that's really where we come into play to help them get the raw data from all these SaaS silos or inside companies oftentimes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

There's a lot of different databases where data resides and the data scientists need it all to be together to do their work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

Yeah, so we're a subscription business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

So we actually call it data engineering as a service is kind of the current offering.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

So we're building a platform out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 618: Astronomer.io 2 Yrs Old, Hits $60K MRR, $2m Raised Helping Companies Makes Sense of Data with CEO Ry Walker

But while we're building the platform out, we're basically doing this work on behalf of customers.