Dataiku's Secret to Scaling AI in Global Enterprises | Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku
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Hi, I'm Matt Turk from Firstmark. Welcome back to the Mad Podcast. My guest today is Florian Dueto, the CEO of Data Aiku, a leading platform for the deployment of machine learning and AI in the enterprise. We chatted about uh Data Aiku's remarkable rise from humble origins in France a decade ago to being today a global enterprise AI leader.
Tech companies and tech companies have a different way to build and maintain over time things related to data, RML, or AI. If you're not in the Bay Area, anyway, ninety-nine percent of the companies are not tech companies. That was really your starting point. Data science for everyone.
With hundreds of millions in revenue and a deep footprint of global two thousand customers.
We indeed have uh the luck to work with uh north of seven hundred uh enterprise customers, among which Morgan Stanley, Michelin, Novartis, Perdue Forms, all sectors and industries.
We also discussed the major additions to Data Echo's platform in generative AI over the last eighteen months, including agent management.
The platform evolved quite a bit. We started as probably two or three key capabilities to more like fifteen, twenty today. Enterprise at large will not have one agent but like more five hundred or one thousand of them. So you just need a central place to understand which agents are talking to which LLM, or you can actually manage this fleet at large.
Florian is a world class CEO and a deep student of the AI market, so please enjoy this very thoughtful and in-depth conversation with him. Hey Florian, welcome.
Hi Matt. How are you?
I'm good. Uh so we were recording this today in New York, uh, but you're on the tail end of a long trip, right? You were in in Asia, you were in SF. What was your trip?
I did uh Tokyo, Sine, Melbourne, SF,
Vegas. And did I co as offices in in where?
Uh we have uh customers and offices in most of those locations, but not in Vegas. Not in Vegas. No, no casino as customers, I think.
Yes, yes. In Vegas was for the Goldman Sachs uh private uh conference, right?
What is the background and early life of Florian Douetteau before founding Dataiku?
I've had the good fortune of working with you for like a number of years now and um we also had uh various uh conversations typically in the format of data driven NYC, which is the uh uh sort of uh meetup uh have been running for a while, but we we never quite did this in long form format, uh kind of podcast format. So I'm I'm I'm excited for it. We can get into some some parts we never covered. We've never talked about the founding story of Didaku or even your story. Uh and I thought uh maybe that would be a great opportunity to go into that. So tell me the story like uh I don't know, you as a teenager and then school and what was the journey into Delaiku?
As a student I was uh mostly into uh well, a little bit of everything, like uh philosophy. And reading and writing and math and physics and so forth. Uh but ultimately also uh a bit of a gig. As in I got my first computer when it was five. And because it was yeah, and it was eighty five. And back then the best way to play with a computer was actually to do some programming or fun with it. or to track to hack some games in order to be able to copy for what
computer was it?
Amstrad C P C uh sixty one two eight. One two eight standing for the amount of um uh random access memory on it. One to eight K. Uh so it was uh pretty much constrained with uh those very fun Uh three inches, not three point five inches floppy disk, very specific to Amstrad. And uh most of the programming was basique. I'm not sure if there was a Pascal there. It was a very first step to programming and got my PC at ten. Started to do more uh C and C, which was uh great or awful. Then as a kid or as a teenager, got into functional programming because it was a thing in France. Uh in France we have uh this programming language called OCamel, great functional programming language, which is French and stitched in France instead of uh Pascal of Java, believe it or not.
I got into being a functional programming geek. Uh when I was like seventeen, eighteen, nineteen. And when I was twenty I was at this uh school with lots of um math gits, as in like the in France where
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:53
2
What is the background and early life of Florian Douetteau before founding Dataiku?
1:53–8:37
3
How did Florian and his co‑founders decide to create Dataiku?
8:37–15:00
4
What is the story behind the name “Dataiku” and its meaning?
15:00–20:12
5
Why does Dataiku focus on building a platform rather than a single tool?
20:12–25:20
6
How does Dataiku sell to large enterprises from day one?
25:20–31:46
7
What does the Dataiku platform look like today and how has it evolved?
31:46–43:10
8
What is the “LLM Mesh” and how does Dataiku manage generative AI at scale?
43:10–53:06
Speakers
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