S8 Bonus: Pete Hunt, Dagster

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Pete Hunt grew up in NE Massachusetts, which he mentions was culturally New Hampshire. He wasn't into Hockey, but did a lot of swimming, in particular the 200m butterfly. He has a 2 year old daughter, and loves to play guitar in his cover band. Pete was one of the founding team members of React, and his friend and colleague, Nick, was one of the creators of GraphQL. Post Facebook, they wanted to figure out what was next, and wanted to build something impactful. After interviewing some folks, he realized that managing data and data pipelines was a challenge that needed to be solved. This is the creation story of Dagster. 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 like to think of what is the dumbest thing I can possibly do to solve the problem.
0:04.0	And I start with that and I ask myself, hey, does it need to be more complex than this?
0:07.0	What I said was, listen, we need a roadmap.
0:10.0	I'm pretty sure that's just a prioritized list of stuff to do.
0:14.0	Why don't we just make a big, dumb list of everything we have to do
0:17.0	and sort it by priority order and then do those things in that order.
0:21.6	And so that's effectively the process that we ran.
0:23.2	So step one was we solicited pitches from everyone in the organization.
0:28.2	So whether you were the CEO all the way down to the person who was just hired, who was working on marketing,
0:37.0	we received 300 different pitches for projects.
0:40.6	I'm Pete Hunt, CEO at Dagster Labs.
0:46.6	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.9	There's nothing at the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	Just took many goes to get right.
1:02.0	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.5	What company is its people?
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
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