This week's guest is the fun and wildly intelligent entrepreneur, Kevin Hu, PhD. Inspired by his doctoral research at MIT, he co-founded Metaplane, a Y-Combinator-backed data observability platform.

In a bit more detail, Kevin:
• Is Co-Founder/CEO of Metaplane, a platform that observes the quality of data flows, looks for abnormalities in the data, and reports issues
• Completed a PhD in machine learning and data science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In this episode, Kevin covers:
• What data observability is and how it can help identify data quality issues immediately as well as more quickly resolve the source of the issue
• His PhD research on automating data science systems using ML
• How he identified the problem his start-up Metaplane would solve
• His experience in Y-Combinator accelerating Metaplane
• Pros and cons of an academic career relative to the start-up hustle
• The surprising complexity of the software tools he uses daily as a CEO
• What he looks for in the data engineers that he hires

This episode gets a little technical here and there but I think Kevin and I were pretty careful to define technical concepts when they came up, so today’s episode should largely be appealing to anyone who’s keen to learn a lot from a brilliant entrepreneur, especially if you’d like to found or grow a data science start-up yourself. Enjoy!

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