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Shachar Meir

Shachar Meir

Data advisor and speaker, formerly Director of Data Engineering at Meta (Facebook) and PayPal, who helps fix failing data teams.

Sep 9, 2026

4:03
If you want to set up, please do.
4:05
Yeah.
4:05
So I'm Shahar.
4:07
I'm a data executive.
4:08
I've been working in the data and tech and analytics space for the past, uh, 20-plus years.
4:13
Uh, I started my career as a DBA, Oracle 9206, uh, 9206, just to date myself.
4:19
And, um, I transitioned to data, uh, to, to a leadership role very early on in my career.

10 MINS LATER

14:26
So I wanna kind of flip the conversation, like I'm sure we can, we can keep bitching about how annoying and how bad things are, but I wanna kind of turn into like what are the actionable things people should start doing? And, and, and, and, and I got my thoughts, but I want to hear from, from, from you.
5:52
[laughs]
5:53
If you see what I've been trying to do throughout this entire conversation is just introduce some structure and say, "No, the world is a lot simpler if you just structure it in a certain way." And I think that the natural reaction that a lot of people will have to this is, "Yes, that sounds nice in theory, but my business is different," right?
6:13
Yeah.
6:13
"Yes, all retail businesses look s- but we are in pharmaceutical and that's different." And I think that my, my number one ask or challenge to anyone listening to it is I don't think your business is different.
6:26
I think there is a way to model and structure your business and create structure and, and, and clarity and simplicity that is missing in every business right now, and this is why the data industry is failing.
6:37
Because we have very smart people that are not very good at creating clarity.
6:41
So if you can be that person that's creating clarity, you're gonna win this game.
5:34
And that's a mind shift that needs to happen.
5:39
All right, how do we do? Perfect.
5:41
What else can I say? I'll just say one last thing, which I think that, first of all, you guys summarized it perfectly, said it better than I did.
5:50
No AI involved.
5:53
You see, what I've been trying to do throughout this entire conversation is just introduce some structure and say, no, the world is a lot simpler if you just structure it in a certain way.
6:05
And I think that the natural reaction that a lot of people will have to this is Yes, that sounds nice in theory, but my business is different, right? Yes, all retail businesses look, but we are in pharmaceutical and that's different.
6:19
And I think that my number one ask or challenge to anyone listening to it is I don't think your business is different.
6:26
I think there is a way to model and structure your business and create structure and clarity and simplicity.
28:50
What's your view?
28:51
Yeah, first of all, I'll say that I think that we're observing the biggest revolution of our lifetime right now, technological revolution of our lifetime.
28:59
What we're seeing is probably unprecedented and it happens at the scale that is probably too fast to comfort for most people.
29:06
that the ability to have a chat with a bot or whatever in your own language, just explain what is it that you want and then get a result is mind-blowing for most people.
29:16
And if you look at sci-fi movies from, I don't know, 5, 10, 20, 30 years ago, that's always how humans wanted to interact with computers, right? And it's finally happening.
29:26
So in a way, that's amazing, right? We just describe some sort of an outcome and we get it.
29:31
But...

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53:33
Shachar, did I miss anything?

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