Scott Dykstra, CTO of Space and Time & Purandar Das, CEO of Sotero

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Scott Dykstra, CTO and Co-Founder of Space and Time, and Purandar Das, CEO and Co-Founder of Sotero.

Microsoft-backed Space and Time is the first decentralized data warehouse. Scott also serves as a Strategic Advisor to Sotero and was formerly the VP of Cloud Solutions at Teradata.

Sotero is a Web2 data security platform that ensures your sensitive data is never left unprotected. Purandar previously served as CTO at Infogroup and CTO at Epsilon.

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction: Scott Dykstra, CTO of Space and Time & Purandar Das, CEO of Sotero
• 1:31 Scott Dykstra: Before Space and Time
• 2:20 What Space and Time is trying to accomplished?
• 3:44 Locking Down Data into a Centralized Database
• 5:13 Censorship Resistance
• 7:25 Data Centers in Space: Is it Possible?
• 8:21 About Sotero and the Strategic Direction of the Company
• 9:50 Sotero & Space and Time Partnership
• 14:32 WhySpace and Time needs Sotero
• 16:53 Run a Query and Encryption
• 21:30 Any Search Query is Patterns
• 22:22 Space and Time set out to connect SQL query results directly to smart contracts in a decentralized trustless way.
• 23:55 The Value Proposition
• 26:34 User-Operated Data Warehouse Clusters
• 29:48 How far are you in real world value delivering? Who are the competitors?
• 32:01 The Value Proposition of Sotero
• 34:50 The Line Between Traditional Infrastructure Development and Defi
• 37:47 Hacks: Primary problem to solve?
• 39:27 Censorship resistance and Private Auditing of Sensitive Third Party Banking Information
• 44:03 Infrastructure and Data
• 45:29 Thoughts on the Ongoing Tension Between Using Cryptocurrency and Fiat USD
• 50:58 Freedom of Currency
• 54:43 U.S. Global Influence Expand to be a Significant Threat?