November 29, 2021 • 78 mins
Timestamps
- (02:13) Prukalpa discussed her upbringing in India and studying Engineering at the Nanyang Tech University in Singapore.
- (03:52) Prukalpa shared the key learnings from her summer internship as an Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs.
- (05:37) Prukalpa went over the seed idea for SocialCops (Read her Quora answer on the fundraising story).
- (11:27) Prukalpa gave a brief overview of the business model at SocialCops.
- (12:45) Prukalpa unpacked her talk called “How Big Data Can Influence Decisions That Actually Matter” at TEDxGateway 2017 related to the data-for-good initiatives that SocialCops facilitated.
- (15:23) Prukalpa shared her thoughts on the future of the Data-for-Good movement.
- (17:49) Prukalpa discussed the challenges that SocialCops’ data teams faced and the founding story behind Atlan.
- (21:38) Prukalpa went over the trust-based culture that enabled SocialCops’ 8-member data team to build out India’s National Data Platform.
- (27:00) Prukalpa dissected the six principles of Atlan’s DataOps Culture Code.
- (31:37) Prukalpa unpacked the notion of Data Catalog 3.0, which is a key value prop of the Atlan platform.
- (36:01) Prukalpa provided the 3-level framework to ensure data quality (detect -> prevent -> cure) and strong practices to maintain high-quality data.
- (40:19) Prukalpa revealed the challenges that organizations face when starting their data governance initiatives.
- (45:35) Prukalpa talked about the under-invested building blocks of modern data platforms.
- (49:24) Prukalpa raised the importance of integration for Atlan to work well with the rest of the modern data stack.
- (50:39) Prukalpa recapped the trends that Chief Data Officers needed to watch out for in 2021.
- (54:01) Prukalpa gave fundraising advice for founders currently seeking the right investors for their startups.
- (58:42) Prukalpa discussed Atlan’s outreach initiatives to engage with the broader data community actively.
- (01:01:03) Prukalpa went over Atlan’s hiring philosophy based on the concept of People-as-a-Moat to attract, engage, and grow top talent — as inspired by the McKinsey advantage.
- (01:05:22) Prukalpa shared Atlan’s Go-To-Market initiatives in the US this year and emphasized the importance of building an execution machine.
- (01:08:53) Prukalpa described the state of the data community in India.
- (01:10:25) Prukalpa shared entrepreneurship books that have deeply impacted her startup journey.
- (01:12:16) Prukalpa briefly mentioned what public recognition means to her in the pursuit of democratizing data for the world.
- (01:14:23) Closing segment.
Prukalpa’s Contact Info
Mentioned Content
Atlan (Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Documentation)
- “Empowering Organizations to Become Masters of Their Data” (Video)
- Atlan Labs (Open-Source Projects)
- Humans of Data Interviews (Interviews)
- The DataOps Culture Code (Document)
- Building a Business Case for DataOps (EBook)
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