S4 E11: Arjun Narayan, Materialize

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Arjun Narayan grew up in India, programming as a kid. He came to America for college, thrown into the scene cold but really liked it. He studied computer science at Williams College in Massachusetts, and did his PHD at Penn, focusing on distributed systems, security, privacy and scalability. His doctorate taught him how to write at length, but out of the norm, he knew early on he didn't want to be an academic. He is married, with a young son - and he really enjoys being a father. Today, his life consists of his startup and his young family, which are about the same age. As he was as grad student doing his PHD, he came across a set of papers written by his co-founder - about a more capable, incremental compute engine. After several years of persuasion, Arjun convinced him that they needed to start a company to commercialize the solution. This is the creation story of Materialize. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	I think the biggest wow factor for us right now is, you know, like you can connect
0:07.4	materialize to 10 or 12 different streams of data and just join them all together and you
0:12.9	just sort of hit enter and you will just start getting streaming join results out on your terminal.
0:18.5	And no other tool really has that response time. There's plenty of tools that will do this in batch
0:22.5	where you can sort of define this query
0:24.3	and then sort of go off for lunch and come back later
0:26.5	and then you get your answer.
0:28.1	But that instant snappiness is something we focused on
0:30.7	because that really shows the power
0:32.9	like right there in the first 10 minutes of using your product.
0:37.8	I'm Arjun Narayan.
0:39.5	I'm co-founder and CEO of Materialize.
0:47.9	This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments
0:55.5	what it takes to change in industry and build and lead a team that has your back.
1:02.3	I'm your host, Noah Labhart, and today how Arjun Narayan convinced his team to commercialize
1:09.3	the best database for streaming data.
1:13.5	All this and more on Code Story.
1:19.6	Arjun Nurayan grew up in India, programming as a kid. He came to America for college,
1:25.0	thrown into the scene cold, but really liked it.
1:28.0	He studied computer science at Williams College in Massachusetts and did his PhD at Penn,
1:33.3	focusing on distributed systems, security, privacy, and scalability.
1:37.1	His doctorate taught him how to write at length, but out of the norm he knew early on he
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