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E10: Josh Benamram and Data Observability

March 14, 2023 • Data Council • Season 1 • Episode 10

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 career in venture capital, into becoming a product manager for a business intelligence company (Sisense) and then becoming a founder himself, where he eventually exited his company to IBM.

Highlights:
[2:00] - How Josh's start in finance led to his career in startups
[6:25] - How working on cloud data warehouse connectors at Sisense, plus the growing need for data engineering led to the insight to start Databand
[9:30] - Josh's thoughts on the difference between data quality & data observability and how vendors in this market have exploded
[15:20] - The story to sell Databand to IBM - motivation and key issues in the decision, and how the mechanics of the relationship transpired
[19:45] - Josh's predictions on the data observability landscape for the future

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