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In today's episode I'm in conversation with Emil Ephraim, the CEO and co-founder of Neo-4J,

an impressive young company that makes the world's most popular

graph database.

Most of us won't have heard of graph databases, but if you're using the internet for shopping, social

networks, online banking, or a plethora of other applications, the because as a technology it didn't really exist 20 years ago.

They're a powerful tool that can be used to map, analyze and manipulate the digital and real world

networks we are all now part of.

Emil coined the term graph database which led to the creation of this

industry category about 10 years ago. He will go deeper into explaining the

technology and its importance and impact on our consumer experience and our privacy.

But we start discussing an interesting and powerful example,

how this technology helped investigative journalists root out some of the most incandescent cases of tax evasion and outright financial fraud by the world's richest and most powerful men and women, the Panama Papers.

So I'm here with Emil Ephraim who's the founder and CEO of Neo 4J.

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