Zero Prime Podcast
Episodes
E32: Lightning Strikes Twice: How Eldad Farkash Built Two Data Unicorns Back-to-Back
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, tune in to our conversation with Eldad Farkash, Co-founder and Chairman of Firebolt. With over two decades ...
E31: From Hype to ROI: How Dwarak Rajagopal of Snowflake Scales Enterprise AI
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to Dwarak Rajagopal – VP of AI Engineering and AI Research at Snowflake. Hear from Dwarak as he traces his journey from opti...
E30 - From Flight Sims to Authorization: How AuthZed's Jake Moshenko is Securing the AI Revolution
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to Jake Moshenko – Co-Founder and CEO of AuthZed. Hear from Jake as he traces his journey from building flight simulators to...
E29: Sudarshan Lakshminarasimhan Founding Engineer at E6data
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to Sudarshan Lakshminaraseemhan – a founding engineer at e6data who cut his teeth during the formative years at global techn...
E28: Classical Pianist to Observability Pioneer - Charity Majors CTO of Honeycomb
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, we chat with Charity Majors, Co-Founder and CTO of Honeycomb, who traded piano keys for keyboard commands o...
E27: From Unix Coder to Enginer-Founder - Rob Woollen's Journey Founding Sigma
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, engineer-turned-founder Rob Woollen gives a refreshingly honest take on the founder journey. Rob shares his...
E26: Balancing Open Source and Business with Spencer Kimball (Cockroach Labs)
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this new episode of the 0P podcast, we welcome back Spencer Kimball, co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, to discuss the evolving landscape of sof...
E25 [DEEP DIVE]: How Metric Trees Are Transforming Businesses with Vijay Subramanian
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we introduce a new format for the podcast—a deep dive into a technical topic with an engineer-founder who is an expert on the subje...
E24: Self-Taught to Startup Success: The Unconventional Path of InfluxDB's Paul Dix
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Paul Dix, the founder and CTO of InfluxData to explore his journey from a self-taught programmer to a leader in datab...
E23: Inside the Mind of an AI Pioneer: A Conversation with Alex Mashrabov
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Alex Mashrabov, the visionary CEO of Higgsfield AI. We journey through Alex's impressive career, beginning with ...
E22: From BigQuery to Motherduck: The Journey of Jordan Tigani
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Jordan Tigani, the dynamic engineer-founder of MotherDuck who previously led Google's BigQuery team and headed up pr...
E21: The Power of Pricing with Alvaro Morales of Orb
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Pete speaks with Alvaro Morales, the co-founder and CEO of Orb, who shares his journey from being an engineer to becoming the founder...
E20: Building Sustainable Businesses in the Tech Industry with Craig McLuckie
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this enlightening episode, I have the privilege of hosting Craig McLuckie, a tech industry veteran who has made significant contributions to the cl...
E19: Overcoming Self-Doubt to Become a Founder with Erik Bernhardsson
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Erik Bernhardsson, co-founder and CEO of Modal, about his journey from Spotify engineer to startup CTO to startup founder...
E18: Data Tool Disruption: Barry McCardel on Building Hex
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we chat with Barry McCardel, Co-Founder and CEO of Hex, as he shares how honing his leadership skills in college paved the way for hi...
E17: The Visionary Behind Vercel with Guillermo Rauch
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore Guillermo Rauch's path from a teen hacker in Argentina to the founder of Vercel. We touch on his engineering roots, t...
E16: The Future of AI in the Workplace -- A Conversation with Aaron Lee of Smith.ai
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Aaron Lee, Founder & CEO of Smith.ai joins me to discuss a variety of topics. First, we delve into the innovative strategies of t...
E15: Developer Productivity and the Future of Software Development -- A Conversation with Graham Thompson and Debo Ray
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we debut a new format where engineer-founders discuss key tech topics. Joined by Graham Thompson of Privacy Dynamics and Debo Ray of ...
E14: From Google Engineer to Cockroach Labs Co-Founder -- a Conversation with Spencer Kimball
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I have the pleasure of hosting Spencer Kimball, a former Google engineer turned tech entrepreneur, and now the Co-Founder & CEO o...
E13: The Evolution of Data Science with DJ Patil
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the podcast, I interview DJ Patil, an entrepreneur, investor, scientist and leader in public policy. The former (and first) U.S. Chief Data S...
E12: From Vertica to Starburst - Data Processing for Analytics with Matt Fuller
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the podcast, I interview Matt Fuller, the co-founder of Starburst. Matt has worked in data for years ....Highlights[1:00] - How Matt got into...
E11: Streaming Data w/ Eric Sammer
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I interview Eric Sammer, the founder & CEO of Decodable. Eric was previously an engineering manager at Cloudera, and before that ...
E10: Josh Benamram and Data Observability
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Benamram is the the co-founder & CEO of Databand, a data observability company acquired by IBM. We’ll discuss Josh’s segue from an early ...
E09: The Origin Story of Datadog w/ Alexis Le-Quoc
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alexis is the co-founder and CTO of Datadog, which was founded in NYC in 2010. He shares with the Pete the origin story of the company, how & why ...
E08: Path to Becoming a Founder w/ Brad Buda
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brad is a repeat founder and is currently the co-founder of Census, an SF company that syncs customer data to go-to-market tools. Brad shares his path...
E07: Monetizing Open Source w/ Wes McKinney
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pete chats with Wes McKinney, the inspiration behind many popular OSS data & data science tools like pandas, Apache Arrow, Ibis and others. We lea...
E06: Data Visualization w/ Max Beauchemin
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for an interview with Max Beauchemin, the original creator of both Apache Superset and Apache Airflow and the founder and CEO of Preset, the c...
E05: Geo Data w/ Lindsay Pettingill
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pete interviews Lindsay Pettingill, CEO & Founder of Iggy. Iggy allows users to quickly understand physical locations to make better investment an...
E04: Data Catalogs w/ Shinji Kim
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for an interview with Shinji Kim, the CEO and founder of Select Star. She walks us through the data catalog landscape, where Select Star sits ...
E03: Data Science in Production Systems w/ Joey Gonzalez
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for an interview with Joey Gonzalez, one of the founding members of the UC Berkeley RISE Lab and the founder of Aqueduct. Aqueduct is helping ...
E02: Metadata Architecture w/ Shirshanka Das
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shirshanka Das spent a decade leading data architecture at LinkedIn where he was the co-creator of DataHub, Apache Gobblin, Databus, Espresso and othe...
E01: Data Orchestration w/ Nick Schrock
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Get an update from Nick Schrock on the dagster project. This episode discusses the world of data orchestration at large, when and how to implement dag...