From Spark to Eventual: Reinventing Data for the AI Era (Chat with Sammy from Eventual)

Update: 2025-12-15

Description

In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim from Essence VC and co-host Ian Livingston (Keycard) interviewed Sammy Sdu, CEO of Eventual, a multimodal data processing platform. Sammy shares his journey from AI research and self-driving cars to founding Eventual, discusses the challenges of processing unstructured and multimodal data, and explores the future of data engineering, scalability, and the role of agents in modern data pipelines.

Timestamps:

02:47 — Data processing challenges & founding Eventual
09:40 — Real-world use cases & business impact
24:20 — The future of data engineering & tools
40:00 — Closing thoughts & where to learn more

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