In the enterprise world, it's way more common for folks to already have an existing data warehouse or data lake with some kind of, you know, querying abstraction sitting on top of that, you know, various addupe technologies or other kind of big data tech.

And you don't want to, you know, you would not want to try to relocate or make a copy of all that data inside of data.

That's not a sensible thing to try to do.

What you want to be able to do is connect to that data where it sits and query it in place.

My name is Brian Jacob and I'm the CTO and co-founder of Data where it sits and query it in place.

My name is Brian Jacob, and I'm the CTO and co-founder at Data. World.

This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry and build and lead a team that has your back.

I'm your host, Noel Lappart, and today how Brian Jacob created a massive ecosystem for you to maximize your data utilization.

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Brian Jacob is a family man with four kids from ages 11 downward.

With a young startup and family, his hobbies have suffered some, but during the

pandemic, he was able to pick back up music, specifically playing the keyboard. He's an avid reader,

mostly sci-fi, and loves to play strategy board games. His family tends to play games like Puerto

Rico and ticket to ride, which is simple enough for a six-year-old to compete.

He and his co-founders have created a massive open community for data.

Users can sign up for free, bring their data catalog, and analyze any data inside the ecosystem.

In doing so, they've seen traction of nearly a million users in the ecosystem, along with enterprise users utilizing a private internal data ecosystem, all based in the cloud and fully integrated.

This is the creation story of data.world.

Data.com. Data.

Dot world is a data catalog.

It's a data and metadata management platform.

You know, two important lenses to look at it through,

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