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podcast interviews. Check it out right now at gitlatka.com. Hey folks, my guest today is Ari Stafjanski.

He's the founder of DataClay, a company developing software that automates the production

of data-driven creative content at scale.

His academic and industry experience and form his entrepreneurial endeavors, leading a talented

team that supports enterprise licenses such as Netflix, Amazon, Apple, NBCUniversal, the NFL,

and others. Are you ready to

take us to the top? Yeah, why not? Let's do it. All right, man. So just to be clear, the

logos I just reeled off here, your team gave me that when they gave me your bio. Those are all

paying customers of data clay. Yes, that is correct. Yes. That's amazing. Yeah. It's a very powerful tool we've made here.

Let's do NFL.

Let's just do them.

How do they use you?

Sure.

So with the NFL, they wanted to separate their marketing department from their video production department to get more content out to their social channels.

And so our software acts as kind of like a data merge software for video.

So we built them a Slack chat bot where marketing folks could go in and chat with the bot

and then content would be made on the other side, right, on a server that somebody at the NFL would QA and then it would go to their social channels.

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