Building data products with Solomon Kahn

Sometimes the most valuable data IN your company ... is the data
LEAVING your company.That's Solomon Kahn's view on data products,
as well as the premise behind his latest venture: Delivery
Layer.For this episode, our Senior Content Advisor Q McCallum
reached out to Solomon to check in on the new startup, and to tap
his expertise in the world of data products.Solomon's been at
this a while.  He's run high-revenue data products in some
notable places, including Nielsen.  Over the years he's
learned a lot and we're excited for him to share some of that
hard-earned knowledge here on the show.In this extended
conversation, the two explore: the reasons why building a data
product is different (and, in many ways, more difficult) than
building traditional software products; how the people involved
can impact the outcome; why a good sense of risk management can
make all the difference; and what purple cars have to do with all
of this. (No, seriously.  Purple cars.)Along the way, the
pair talk about the early days of the data field, and how much it
has changed.


Solomon is active on LinkedIn.  You can follow him for
his daily updates at https://www.linkedin.com/in/solomonkahn

Delivery Layer: https://www.deliverylayer.com/