Tommy Dang is the Co-founder & CEO of Mage, an open-source tool for building and deploying data pipelines. Mage helps data engineers synchronize data from 3rd party sources, build real-time and batch pipelines to transform data, and orchestrate thousands of pipelines without losing sleep.
Topics Discussed:
- Tommy’s career journey in tech, and the core values he learned from working at Airbnb as a software engineer
- The mindset that guided Tommy in creating Mage and how this mental framework helped him efficiently utilize his energy and mind share
- Mage’s origin story and how it helps developers solve data processing challenges
- Product features and core design principles that differentiates Mage from other developer tools
- The positioning strategy that’s helping Mage gain market traction
- Why Mage focuses primarily on data integration and data pipelines
- Mage’s approach in marketing to developers and company decision makers
- Why Tommy and his team decided to keep Mage as an open source tool, and future plans for monetization
- The biggest go-to-market challenge the Mage team has had to overcome, and it’s vision for the next three years
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