EP 95 : Building a Hub for Data Teams | Prukalpa Sankar (Co-founder, Atlan)

Prukalpa Sankar is the Co-founder of Atlan a hub for various data teams to socialise and collaborate on their work. Prior to co-founding Atlan Prukalpa co-founded Socialcops. In this episode she spoke about the nuances of building a collaboration software, the nuances of being a global company from day 1 and more. Highlights: 00:00 Introduction 01:14 Founding Story of Atlan 04:54 Building a platform for different personas 08:25 Nuances of building collaboration software 13:38 The Product v/s Platform debate 16:20 Being early in a category  20:22 Popular use cases for Atlan's product 21:35 Buyer persona  23:47 How and When to build a data team 28:08 Nuances of being a global company from day 1 31:54 High level Challenges right now  34:53 Learnings from being a serial entrepreneur 37:27 Optimism for the Future ------------------------------------- Connect with Prukalpa: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prukalpa/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/prukalpa ------------------------------------- Connect with Us:  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startupoperator ​Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​​ ------------------------------------- If you liked this episode, let us know by hitting the like button and share with your friends and family. Please also remember to subscribe to our channel and switch on the notifications to never miss an episode! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message