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Barry McCardel
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Barry McCardel
@barrald
co-founder and CEO of Hex (hex.tech / @_hex_tech) - former @PalantirTech @formationbio - personal site: barry.ooo
San Francisco, CA
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    Barry McCardel
    @barrald
    Jul 29, 2025
    I love single sign on because you only have to sign on once, 8 times a day
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    Barry McCardel
    @barrald
    Oct 25, 2024
    it's only "Forward Deployed" if it's from the Palantiré region of France. otherwise it's just sparkling Sales Engineering
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    Barry McCardel
    @barrald
    Jun 1, 2022
    Looks like hiring is starting to slow down at Stealth Startup
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    Barry McCardel
    @barrald
    Dec 9, 2024
    Replying to @zoink
    this is partly my fault in 2011 they merged with Continental. Each airline had completely separate fleets with different connectivity strategies. CO had a big long term deal with LiveTV to do seatback cable. United had just inked with Panasonic to do first satellite WiFi. They
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    Barry McCardel
    @barrald
    Aug 22, 2022
    I wish I wanted anything as much as backend engineers want to re-write everything in Rust
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    Barry McCardel
    @barrald
    Jan 15, 2022
    I know more people in SF with Goldendoodles than children
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    Barry McCardel
    @barrald
    Oct 3, 2022
    Whoaaa, it turns out DuckDB can turn Postgres into a HTAP solution 🤯 RIP to millions of ETL pipelines...
    duckdb.org
    Querying Postgres Tables Directly from DuckDB
    DuckDB can now directly query tables stored in PostgreSQL and speed up complex analytical queries without duplicating data.
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    Barry McCardel
    @barrald
    Aug 11, 2022
    you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself build PDF export
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    Barry McCardel
    @barrald
    Aug 31, 2020
    Most in-demand jobs in SF by year: 2017: Data Scientist 2018: Data Engineer 2019: ML Engineer 2020: Bike Mechanic
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    Barry McCardel
    @barrald
    May 28, 2025
    We're building something ambitious at @_hex_tech, and I couldn't be prouder of our team as we work to improve and accelerate data work in the AI era And I'm excited to share we raised another $70m to keep investing and growing! Read more on our blog:
    Announcing our $70M Series C
    From hex.tech
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    Barry McCardel
    @barrald
    May 29, 2020
    damn, twitter really out for blood with these fact checks @itunpredictable
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    Barry McCardel
    @barrald
    Mar 23, 2023
    I wrote a blog post about the new era of computing and data work we’re entering, where @_hex_tech is going, and some new funding from @sequoia:
    Data, magic, and some more money stuff
    From hex.tech
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    Barry McCardel
    @barrald
    Apr 4, 2025
    Replying to @0xgaut
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    Barry McCardel
    @barrald
    Feb 4, 2022
    I would pay double
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    Barry McCardel
    @barrald
    Mar 22, 2022
    So excited to have the folks at @a16z along for the @_hex_tech ride! We have a roadmap full of big ideas and little details, and this gives us the runway to go and build it all.
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    Hex
    @_hex_tech
    Mar 22, 2022
    💸 We raised a Series B to hire more amazing people, ship even more great features, and help data teams go from analyzing data to ✨creating knowledge✨. Read more about where we're going and why on the blog: hex.tech/blog/series-b

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