The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: Why Is Kostas a Guest on His Own Podcast?

Episode Date: April 29, 2024

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Hey, Data Stack Show listeners. We were so excited that we got to meet a few of you live in San Francisco at Ruddersack's Data Modeling Workshop around identity resolution. And we have another one of those events coming up in London. It's on May 15th, and we would love to see you there if you're in London or close by. The workshops are great. It's super fun. We'll have some snacks and drinks afterwards, and you'll get to meet not only other like-minded data people, but also potentially a few show listeners. So you can register at rudderstack.com slash events. See you in London in a few days. Welcome to the Data Stack Show prequel.

This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You'll get to meet our guest and hear about the topics we're going to cover. If they're interesting to you, you can catch the full-length show when it drops on Wednesday. All right, welcome to the Data Stack Show. We're here today with Costas. Welcome back to the show. I think I can say that. We're here today with Kostas. Welcome back to the show. I think I can say that. We're thrilled to have you on.

And tell us a little bit about your background and how you've come on the show today. Yeah, thank you so much. It's a very unique experience for me to be honest. It's my first time as the guest of a show. I've been so far one of the hosts. So I'm thrilled. I don't know how it will go, but we have a lot of things to talk about the show itself.

Hopefully we'll come up with some very funny moments of what happened in the past three years here with the whole team. Reveal a little bit about what it takes to produce a show. Talk about the value, why people do that. I think it's one of the things I haven't really talked that much, me and Eric, like, why we kept doing this. And we'll see. We'll improvise a little bit. I think it's going to be fine. It's going to be different, but it's going to be a lot

of fun. Yeah, maybe some behind the scenes takes. Ah, be fantastic. You didn't even talk about what you've learned after three years of interviewing, you know, all sorts of data professionals, Kostas.

Or maybe you don't want to talk about that. Is that too difficult? I mean... Emotionally. No, I... You know, like spending so much time with like one of the best like go-to-markets persons that I know, that's you, Eric. Oh.

I don't want like to produce an episode where, produce an episode where people will just listen to that episode and will learn everything. The best thing they can do is go through all of the 300 episodes. Oh, that's true. There's so much knowledge in there. I don't want fun. It's not just knowledge, right? I don't like to ruin that experience.

So I'll share a little bit, but I'll keep it more on the teaser level. I'm sorry, my beloved audience, I'll torture you a little bit, but trust me, it's for your own good. Now that is a master of marketing, right? Learn from the best. All right, well, let's dig in and reflect on a couple of years of doing the Data Sack Show.

Let's do it. All right. That's a wrap for the prequel. The full-length episode will drop Wednesday morning. Subscribe now so you don't miss it.