Coffee with Coalesce

In this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, Cube co-founders Artyom Keydunov and Pavel Tiunov discuss their journey with Cube, from starting out as a side project to a successful company that recently raised its Series B funding round. The discussion touches on Cube’s founding story, innovating the semantic layer with a universal approach, and their data management strategy. Listen to the full episode for more on:Cube’s founding story: The company’s origins as an open-source project focused on embedding BI tools into Slack, eventually pivoting to creating a universal semantic layer.Semantic layer innovation: The importance of a universal semantic layer for ensuring consistent metrics across different BI tools.Cube’s latest product features, including next-gen data modeling, AI-powered capabilities, and more.Predictions and top industry trends in 2025: AI will play a growing role in data engineering, especially with data modeling and optimizing data queries; consolidation within the Modern Data Stack, the evolution of AI-powered tools in analytics, and more.Hosted by Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi.Resources:About Cube: https://cube.dev/About Coalesce: https://coalesce.io/Article: Achieve Data Maturity with an Integrated Semantic LayerNews: Coalesce and Cube Partner to Bring a Universal Semantic Layer to Data Pipeline DevelopmentConnect with our hosts:Armon PetrossianSatish JayanthiConnect with this episode's guests:Artyom KeydunovPavel Tiunov

In this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, Taylor Brown, COO and co-founder of Fivetran, shares the origin story of the company and how Fivetran has helped pioneer the Modern Data Stack. Taylor dives into the challenges of building Fivetran, the company’s mission to make data as accessible and reliable as electricity, and the impact of their innovations on the data industry.In this episode:The origin of Fivetran and its mission to simplify data ingestionsThe origin of the Modern Data StackData accessibility and infrastructure innovationFivetran’s hybrid deployment modelScaling management structures as a co-founderThe future of data lakes and open file formats, and moreHosted by Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi.

We’re excited to welcome Una Galyeva, Data & AI Consultant with Honest Data and AI Consulting, to chat about data mesh.Topics covered in this episode include the reality of data mesh implementations vs the theoretical concepts, use cases where implementing data mesh makes sense, assembling the right team for a successful transition to a data mesh structure, and more.Hosted by Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi.

In the latest episode of our data podcast, we welcome Rob Woollen, Co-founder and CTO of Sigma Computing, to chat about the future of BI, the journey of developing Sigma, finding product market fit, and the company’s success. In this episode you'll hear Rob's take on:the future of spreadsheets and SQLaddressing the largest bottlenecks in analytics use casesthe impact of Gen AI and LLMs on BIchallenges in AI interface designthe potential of AI for productivity, and more.