The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: Zero to One: Navigating the Challenges of a Data Infrastructure Startup

Episode Date: May 21, 2025

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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 guests 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. Welcome back to the Data Stack Show. We're recording live in Oakland, California at the data council Conference and we have Pranav Aurora from moon cake labs here. I've been So excited to talk to you. I saw your post on hacker news

I guess a couple weeks ago read all about it and when we saw that you were here We knew we had to talk to you. So give us the quick 30 second background on you. Great, thanks for having me. Super excited for this. I'm Pranav, founder of Mooncake. I started my career at Microsoft, ended up at Single Store where I ran Grove product marketing kind of in the middle of it all, and started Mooncake with two people I met

at Single Store eight months ago. It's our second attempt to simplify the data stack, building on the right principles of Postgres and Iceberg and that's us. Awesome. So Pranav, before we hit record, we're talking Postgres, one of my favorite topics. Love talking about that. So we will definitely cover that, but what are some things you want to talk about?

Yeah, I'm actually really excited to talk about how we're thinking we're bringing Mooncake to market and how to stay true to principles and how important they are in the data landscape in this shiny object world of AI. Awesome. Well, let's dig in. Let's do it. All right, that's a wrap for the prequel. The full-length episode will drop Wednesday morning.

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