90: In Creating Business Intelligence, Michel Tricot (Twitter: @MichelTricot), founder of Airbyte, joins host William Glass to discuss how to utilize open-source data integration tools and build a business with an open-source business model. Michel shares his experience building the wrong product and being forced to pivot along with the keys to persisting through tough times. You'll learn:

Open sources as a business model

A failed initial product and quick pivot to "overnight" success

How to get all of your company data in one place

Why connectors and data integration is crucial to business



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About Michel Tricot:


Michel Tricot is the CEO and Co-Founder of Airbyte, the new open-source ELT standard for replicating data from applications, APIs & databases.


Michel has been working in data engineering for the past 15 years. As head of integrations and engineering director at Liveramp (NYSE: RAMP), he grew the team responsible for building and scaling the data ingestion and data distribution connectors, syncing 100s TB every day.


After only five months, Airbyte raised $5.2m in seed funding from Accel, YCombinator, 8VC, and some high-profile business angels, including the co-founder of Segment, the former GM Cloudera, and the co-founder of Liveramp and Safegraph. 600+ companies have synced data using Airbyte in the first 6 months.


Learn more about Michel Tricot & Airbyte: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/micheltricot/ & Airbyte https://airbyte.io


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