I remember seeing the taxi out of the corner of my eye. I was heading down the hill on my bicycle, and it was a four-lane road, and by the time I realised it, the taxi had pulled out into my lane and stopped right in front of me. I was going about 45 kilometres an hour, and I just hit the bonnet. I passed out, and I woke up on the road, dripping blood down into the asphalt. There was a bouncer from the pub across the road who ran over, and he picked up my phone and started dialing people at random, and luckily he managed to find one of my co-founders, and he rushed over. We jumped in an ambulance, went to the hospital, and I got a bunch of stitches in my head. That was two days before we launched our product, and I left the hospital, went home, had a snatch of sleep, then went back into the office on the Sunday, got coding, and we managed to launch on Monday, August 26, 2013. Every time you launch, you think it's going to be this wonderful, magnificent thing, and I remember we'd pulled up the real-time Google Analytics dashboard, and we're watching for this flood of little dots to come in as people drastically started signing up for Canva, and we sat there, and it was 10 p.m. We'd launched it at daytime in New York, and we saw one drop come in, then about 30 seconds later, we saw another drop come in, then about three minutes later, we saw another drop come in, and that was a very uneventful night for us. I think every launch kind of turns out that way. You think the launch is going to be huge, but it's the days after that really tell the real story of your company. This is our growth for the first year that we're in business, so we started off with 500 sign-ups that week, the week after we got 2,500, and the week after that we got 5,000, and it's with these small steps of people spreading your product, you building the product and responding to them, that you gradually build up to what we are now today. If you know what a era of white Canva is, we're a design tool for people who have no design skills whatsoever, so we can help you make anything from a presentation, to a book cover, to a magazine, to a flyer or a t-shirt, and if you're a non-designer, it's the perfect tool for you. We started about seven years ago, and we started with just three people sharing an office down in Sydney, Australia. We now have close to 800 people around the globe, and we have over 20 million people using the product in every country around the world. All those people put together make 100 million designs a month, which is always a figure that just kind of boggles my mind. That actually translates to 30 designs a second, so by the time I finish saying this sentence, 500 designs have been created on Canva alone. We were the first Unicorn down in Australia, so our first VC back to Unicorn, and we achieved that last year, and earlier this year we did another valuation round that valued us at 3.5 billion US dollars. Over those seven years, I've kind of learned a lot through successes and through failures, and today I wanted to share with you three concepts that I think have led to us becoming a successful company. The first of those is customer experience. The second is team building, and the final one that I'll talk about is growth. Customer experience has been really important to us, because we're a very product-led company. Every decision that we make, whether it's from the people that we hire, through to the features that we put in, through the way that we think about how to service our customers in the best way, is always product-led. This is really important to us, because our customers are our greatest ambassadors. We have a stream of tweets that we show in the office, and it's people who are really expressing their true love for Canva, whether it's through animated gifts, talking about how long they've been using Canva for, or even putting up marriage proposals to Canva. It's really the customers that make us come back day in day and improve the product and keep on building upon what we're doing. I remember the very first time we got some first real customer feedback from someone who's using Canva that we'd never heard of before, and this was from an orphanage in South America, and they'd written an email to us and told us that they'd been started using Canva to produce the newsletters for their orphanage. So they told their sponsors about new children who come into the orphanage, they told the stories of kids that had moved on and found new homes, and they really expressed how much Canva had changed their life, how much Canva had enabled them to tell their own story, and to change the lives of kids halfway around the world that we'd never met before. That was the moment that I truly realized that design had the power to improve people's lives and have a really positive impact on the world. It's always a tricky balance, I think, when you're building a product between maintaining your vision and listening to your customers. And I think it's a line that we've treaded fairly well. We have a really big vision at Canva. We want to empower the entire world to design no matter what their design need is. And along with that, once you put out a product, you'd really need to closely listen to your customers as well. And deciding when to forge ahead with your vision or to listen to your customers is always a tricky ask. One of the ways that we kind of did that in the early days was during the development of the product. It took us a year to build what we wanted to build before we could release it to anyone. And this was in 2012 when the lens start-up had just come out. Everyone was going crazy for MVPs. And I remember our investors hounding us every day, asking whether we'd launched the product yet. Have you launched a product yet? Have you launched a product yet? Have you launched a product yet? And everyone wanted to put out an MVP, but really we didn't know what an MVP was. What is the minimal thing that you can put out that's going to be successful? You as an entrepreneur are really the only person who can gauge that. What do you need to put out there that you think is going to be a success? We actually started testing something that was pretty bare bones. We'd whacked it together with duct tape and put it into a rough prototype. And we discovered again and again the same problems that people encountered. And the prototype just didn't cut it. This notion of an MVP wasn't what it was set out to be built to express. What we decided to do is to actually take the time to polish that MVP. So rather than put something out after three months or six months, we took the year to really flesh out the experience that we wanted to express as to how we think design could be done. And I think it was a really valuable use of our time. The product that we put out was an MVP in the true sense of the word because there's the minimum thing that we needed in order to tell the world how we wanted them to do design. One thing that we discovered in the very early days just before launch was through some of our qualitative research. And what we discovered is that we'd built a great product. It was really powerful. You could do lots of things in it. But people that came into the product were really scared of screwing up. They didn't want to add something to the page or change something on the page because they didn't think they were a designer. And anything they thought they could do was just going to make the design any worse. What we really focused on was making sure that they had a brilliant onboarding experience that could take them from someone who had no confidence about design and didn't want to change anything on the page to being a really confident designer who could change anything on the page and make it look good. And we focused on that onboarding experience for probably two months working on various iterations, doing various technical hacks to help people learn about the design editor. And at the end of it, we ended up with scores of all 10 in our user testing. And that was a really vital part of making a successful product before we launched. Like, another way that we think about being product led at Canva is having a real merger between our design teams and our engineering teams. I used to work at Google about 10 years ago and I worked on a product called Google Wave. And they made some technical decisions on that project that I think kind of really doomed it. One of those was using a product called Google Web Toolkit.  There's a couple of people out there. Google, as a designer, Google Web Toolkit really killed me because it took 10 minutes for any change in the code to actually appear in the software. So if I wanted to change the color of a piece of text, I'd go to ask the engineer and say, hey, can you change this to blue? And they'd be like, sure, come back in 10 minutes and you can see it. And that kind of iteration cycle really hampers the way in which you can build the product and the way that design and engineering work together. One thing we've worked keenly on at Canva is to make sure that design and engineering are always in partnership and that design talks to engineering and informs them about what's happening. And engineering talks to design and informs them about what's happening. Together it creates a really great iterative loop that ultimately produces the highest quality product. Another way that we do this is by really valuing cross-disciplinary people. So we really like working with designers who understand about engineering and engineers who understand about design. When you have people like that, a real conversation can happen and you can develop a product that's greater than the sum of its parts. The second area I'd like to talk about is team building. And I like to think about teams as being this tension between three different areas. We have business, we have design and we have engineering. I often just shorten engineering to make it look more balanced. With business design and engineering I think they're the essential things you need in order to make a great company. Being right in the middle is a skill I think we've really nailed at Canva. You can kind of wobble around the middle depending upon what your company is. A lot of you will be building products that are highly technical. A lot of you will be building products that are highly consumer based. So you can kind of move that dot around the centre. But when you start moving that dot too far from the centre you end up with problems. This is what I experienced during my time at Google. They're a very engineering focused company and Google Wave was a very ambitious product that I was trying to build. Through that process I kind of experienced it through the lens of a designer. And through the lens of a designer the product being an engineering led led to serious problems in the overall experience of the product. I tried to counteract this with the startup that I started right after I left Google. It was a company called Fluent and we're working on a better way to do email. And we've seen what had happened when engineering led the bandwagon and we're like okay let's try and make it so that design and experience is leading the way. So we kind of massage the team more in the design direction and made design and engineering a real focus of this company. And we managed to make a really great product and got great feedback from our users. The one thing that we neglected to think about was the business part of this diagram. So we had no way of making money and investors weren't too impressed with our business model. So we ultimately had to move on from that company and luckily I met up with my co-founders Mel and Cliff. And I think it was through this journey, through Google, through doing my own startup that I'd realised a lot about myself. A lot about what I was good at and a lot about what I was bad at. And I kind of recognised in my co-founders the skills that I needed to create a great company. And together we've created something that is truly well balanced and really meets the needs of both business, design and engineering. We've tried to replicate this as we've grown the company. So as the teams have grown, as the product teams have grown, we make sure that design, business and engineering are all in balance and all working in partnership. The third area that I'll talk about is growth. And I think for startup growth is a no brainer. It has to be a focus of yours. There's a couple of different areas that we've thought about growth. The essential innovation that we had with Canva was about taking this area that was immensely complex. Something where you needed to go to five different people to get something done. You needed to start up six different applications and you needed a really deep knowledge about design, graphic design, printing in order to get anything done. And we managed to condense that from this really complex area down to a simple experience that anyone in the world could pick up. Someone who had never thought about design before, someone who'd never opened Photoshop before. What it turned out was that the market that it really suited in the early days was people who were really active on social media. So social media marketers, bloggers, people who really wanted to communicate with the outside world. And it was the perfect tool for them. We got really great traction. We got really great word of mouth. And very fortunately, people who love to post content to social media also love talking about stuff. So they love telling people about Canva and referring to their friends and their colleagues and spreading it for us. Over the years, we've kind of expanded the sphere in which Canva plays. So we don't just do social media graphics now. We do presentations and flyers and business cards and t-shirts. And through that growth, through from that initial seed, we've managed to grow the markets that we're in and also the product verticals that we're in. Probably one of the key moments, I think, in growth for Canva was when we made the decision at the end of 2015 to move beyond just being in English. So up until that stage, we just serviced English markets. There were people using us in 100 different countries, but they had to be speaking English in those countries. So at the start of 2016, we set ourselves a really big goal of making Canva available in eight different languages. And this was a huge technical accomplishment. We had to rewrite the entire code base, figure out how to get translations for eight different languages in real time, anytime an engineer committed code, it had to go through this automatic pipeline. And we managed to get it done. By the end of 2016, we translated into eight different languages, including Spanish, French, German, and a bunch of other European languages. And we set up the framework for what would be our international growth. In 2017, we said, okay, we managed to do eight languages in 2016. How big can we go with this in 2017? So we set ourselves a goal in 2017 of being in 100 different languages. And we managed to just scrape in on that goal by December 24, 2017. And this involves some really hard problems. It didn't involve just using Roman scripts. It involved translating the app into Korean, making content available in Korean, in Hebrew, in Thai, in Russian, heaps of different languages that were very different to our own. By making this change in the way that we thought about our market, and by opening up Canva to the world, it drastically changed the company and the trajectory that we're on. I think we're one of the earliest companies to actually go fully global out of any tech startup. Google was well over 10 years before they internationalized to this level. And I think Facebook did it around year eight. We did it in year four. And it's massively changed the market shape of Canva and who we service all around the world. In 2013, one of our biggest markets for the US with our international growth, countries like Brazil and Indonesia and India, rapidly rising in the top five. When you're thinking about growth, you also have to think about the growth of the actual company as well. It's not just about growing your customer base. It's about growing the people around you and the building around you and the teams around you. And it's a really complicated thing to deal with when you're doubling your headcount every year. We went from 10 people in our first year to 20 people in our second year, 50 people in our third year, 100 people in our fourth. And now up to 800 people. And each time that you double your team, all sorts of stuff breaks, the way that you hold meetings breaks, the way that you communicate vision to your teams breaks, the way that you do lunch, the way that we cook food for people, even the way that you do the toilets changes. And you have to constantly be thinking about this growth and adapting to new ways to work at scale. One of the ways that we do this with our product teams is to try and keep them as insulated as possible. So we got to a stage very early on where we grew from 10 people to 20 people. And we tried to keep all of them in the same team. It was really difficult to do that because at the size of 20 people, you've got multiple features going in, you've got different goals. Some people are trying to hit an activation metric. Some people are trying to get people to buy more images. And it just ends up in a big mess because you've got 20 people not talking about the same thing and all hitting in different directions. So we made the call at 20 people to really break our company down and make sure that we had small teams that were working with one another and that could work independently from the other teams and the company. We've got to the stage now where we have well over 60 teams. And we've had to introduce layering now. So we have groups that can consist of teams. And within those teams, we still have that core nucleus of a product manager, a designer, and roughly four to eight engineers. We've found that that's the right recipe in order to have that team totally unblocked, totally focused and totally heading in the one direction. I've run out of time today, but that's been the last seven years of Canva in about 18 minutes. I'll leave you with these three things is to focus on the customer experience. Make sure that you're building your team in the right way. And always be thinking about growth, not just growth in your customers, but also growth in your employees and growth in your company. Thank you. I hope you enjoy Slush.


All right, according to this we are live all right everybody. Let me know if you can see me and hear me Looks like it's working correctly All right. Hello everybody my gosh everybody's here John Booth wants me to give a shout out to his son Clayton nine years old loves GI Joe with a passion Hello Clayton Thanks for enjoying GI Joe and here's your shout out And and thank you to John For watching the show as well, but hey there Clayton Good evening Clayton from the United States Yeah, we got MC DJ AC DC and sparkster and Cobra Island The little Pavster. Hello. Nice to see you here Nyquist Matt Rubin The gang's all here. Hello Vincent and James aka rat face Hello fire crotch and White Vegeta Lazarus, how do you do sir good to hear from you bubble wrap memories? How do you do nice to see you? jumping general I Thank you very much jump in general. I appreciate that very much I'm hoping for the success of the channel as well Evie GMZ. 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I don't have an agenda for tonight I don't have a book to read for story time or anything like that I just wanted to sit here and chat with you for a while Hey, don't forget today is Tuesday Which means there is a new video from Timmer on half the battle And that video is the top seven Subteams So if you want to know what his top seven subteams are Make sure you check out the latest video on half the battle on the YouTubes Hey, it's SEO toy review. Hello SEO toy review. Nice to see you there. Thank you very much for showing up Sorry, I missed you earlier, but hello and thank you again for being here Bradley Good says hello from the Arctic aka Iowa Yeah, well right now it's the Arctic here too. Um, it's gotten really cold and really snowy And Yeah, it's a we're getting snowed in here But um, but it's all right. It's all right. I'm still making it to work Um driving in incredibly dangerous conditions. I'm still making it But uh Yeah, oh trouble maker bricks. Uh, thank you very much. I'm glad you like the channel. Uh, thank you for being here So I did a couple videos and we could talk about those. Um, I did, um A review of the python trooper, which I still get mixed up with the python officer You know because they switched them Uh, that was a couple weeks ago Um Cobra island says how's the job going? Well, it's going that's that's all I'll say about that Is this it's it's it's going Um Mark says comic store in petersboro, ontario just opened back up went with the new girlfriend got issues 77 and 278. Okay, cool. So you are collecting the more modern uh, comic books, which I've I was getting but I kind of I kind of uh, um Fell behind on um I do have the complete marvel run though with with some help for us from From some viewers some donations from viewers. I have the complete marvel run um But uh be retro gamer. How do you do bob's dungeon? I don't think I said hi to bob's dungeon. Um Uh, I don't know if I said hello to james clark, but if not, hello, how do you do? um the killer weezer Yes, at least my job is inside that is always a plus uh at this time of year Um, and rodrigo says a big fan from South polo brazil. Hello brazil from the united states and thank you very much for joining. That's awesome Um, hello, uh, kaley matthew commended or nice to see you sir um Ben says well hasbro ever considered giving us a movie from the cobra point of view now That's an interesting uh question and an interesting idea I don't know if they would necessarily do a movie like that, but that would be um It would be unique wouldn't it um to actually get the cobra perspective um Interesting idea. I don't know if we ever get a movie of that, but maybe uh something along that line Can be done in a comic book series or something like that or maybe an animated series. That would be cool too um see, uh Sergeant slaughter slaughter house says uh speaking of comics sergeant slaughter is back in the saddle this week for action force Slight delay, but it looks like thursday release cool. Um action force. He's talking about the vala verse And I did pre-order that sergeant slaughter figure. Hello joe henry. Uh, thank you. I'm really glad that you like the channel And thank you for being here um A little pastor says hi say hi to katie. Hi katie. How do you do? Um Yeah, uh, and oh, hey, it's rob iris airy It's uh, it's uh rob iris airy the famous Rob iris airy from uh, what's on joe mind? um Oh, and uh rob got the fang from walmart In a box really they gave it to you in a box. That's very kind of them um a ryan films um Oh, yeah, oh ryan films got drawing from patreon awesome. Uh, that's good um Next to an autograph photo of sam remy. That's awesome. Hey, I am very honored. That's that is really very very kind of you um, so, uh, I am curious about, um Anyone who got the retro fang from walmart um What your thoughts are about it? Because I've had I've heard mixed reports Uh, I've heard some reports that it's it's kind of cheap and flimsy But I don't have one and I haven't been able to find one myself um Even though I haven't really been actively collecting the retro series I might pick it up just out of curiosity After all I did get the the hang on. I I got the his tank right right over there I got the his tank Um, it's not in here, but it my his tank came with a box too um But I did not get the awestriker. Hey, it's lia. Hello lia nice to see you And uh troublemaker bricks, uh got the new his tank. I also got the his tank. I better put that somewhere So I don't get it messed up um I also got the his tank um Let's see stalemate says mine's still in the the mail Supposed to be in next monday. Well, okay, so you I'm I'm you'll have to Next time we get together you'll have to share your experience With the new fang and the fang is a redesign Right. It's not a Perfect copy of the original fang. They have redesigned it. They've made it I don't know Different, you know um But uh, but I've I've I've heard Uh reports that it's it's a little bit on the cheap and flimsy side. I I hope that's wrong I hope that's not correct, but uh, but I am curious about uh those who have it and what they think of it Uh, let's see jump in general says do you like the retro gi joe walmart 3.75 figures? Do you collect them? I don't uh actively collect them. I did pick up a destro Uh a few weeks back, but I haven't opened it. I'm not actively collecting them. Um Uh, I I'm I'm turning my attention back toward like the actual vintage toys So, um, I I mean they're fine, but they are they are just modern era figures um Not not necessarily entirely re-released but modern era figures On retro style packaging. That's basically what's retro about it. And that's fine. It's it's not really for me. Um, but um I encourage everyone who is interested in that to pick them up Of course, you know support gi joe where you can find it. Uh, and there is gi joe at retail right now Which is awesome. Um Cobra island says would you like to appear for an interview for the cobra island channel? Um, yeah, I could probably do that We need to talk separately so we can arrange it. Uh, I got to work out a time to do that But yeah, I'd be open to that that that'd be all right Um The fang pilot, uh, he's a new figure. Yeah, the uh, I believe the fang pilot is new and I do like the idea That, uh, we have a fang pilot now As you may remember the original fang helicopter did not include a pirate A pilot it didn't include include a pirate either But also not a pilot Um Uh, oh, yeah rob says to be actively collected you would have to see them in a store. Yeah, that's true. I mean Um The distribution has been a little lax So, um When I have checked out the gi joe Uh section of you know the toys Mostly what I find is nothing Uh, just empty pegs empty spaces Um But if I did run across the new fang I would probably pick it up out of Uh out of curiosity A pirate. Where's the rum? Um Yeah, I hate to fly the fang in this weather. Yeah, no kidding Uh for those of you who live, uh in other Countries or other parts of the country right now the the area where I live and in in fact a lot of the States surrounding my state are getting, um Uh inundated with um With uh winter weather and it's really cold and we don't like it We don't like the cold Um So yeah, that's happening Um Sparks or says it's the same with transformers as well Lots of empty space and no signs of restock. Yeah. And so how many how do you collect these things? If you can't ever find them um and I have I have uh found some items like for instance, I was able to pick up that retro Destro Um But That's that's about all that I've found um I haven't really found any of the of the new stuff. Um None of the vehicles I this this his tank I got this his tank like a couple months ago Uh, and I haven't seen any since so, um Uh, yeah, we're we're having some we're having some some Hasbro's having some distribution issues and uh, this section of the country is having some snow issues um James says it's nine inches in amarillo. Um, uh, I'm I'm not sure exactly what we've got right now But the problem is we are um Uh We're supposed to get more we're supposed to get pelted with more snow tonight Um Let's see, um Uh, jerry is wondering if I saw the pics on a post on facebook about the bridge layer variant founded toy store in florida I did not see that I apologize for missing that Um, I'll try to go back and see it I know there are some variants of the bridge layer and some of those variants are hard to find So if you can get your hands on a bridge layer variant, uh, you are pretty lucky Um Aaron says six inches here and uh, still falling thick. That's yeah, right now. It's not snowing It actually gave us a break today But it is going to start snowing again like any minute Um, oh, there's painted. Hello painted plastic. Thank you for joining Uh, and uh, jason sends a super chat all striker vintage versus retro same quality Uh, good question. I don't have the awestriker If I run across the awestriker, I will get it Um Because I'm curious about that exact question. I want to compare it with the The vintage as far as quality Now the his tank In my opinion is comparable To the quality of a vintage his tank It's pretty good I assume the awestriker is two But but I don't have my hands on one. I haven't been I haven't seen one Um, and I have been looking, uh Sometimes occasionally at least When I think about it, I stopped by the toy aisle and see if there's anything new. I haven't seen any I haven't seen any. I would would purchase but I've not found any um Leah says keep that snow out west. Well, apparently we're keeping it Um, it's nice to see you painted plastic. Thank you for joining. It's always it's always nice to see you here Mecca 82 says hello and I say hello back um The real erin collins says says salute and I say salute back um Troublemaker says his walmart had six of them really That's not bad considering all of the walmarts that I visited in this area had zero So, uh, this is what I'm talking about about the really uneven distribution some Uh areas get a lot of them and others areas get none Uh cobra island says I have vintage awestriker, uh the 25th anniversary and retro But I found all three have the same play features Uh that that kind of makes sense. Yeah um Stephen said he saw an awestriker at the local walmart, but had to pass on the 25 dollars Yeah, you might consider 25 to be fairly steep But you know, it's still cheaper than a vintage one And for me it would be worth it just to uh, have the chance to open it up and uh, compare The quality with the vintage Uh Stephen style says seattle area none See seattle's not getting any My area not getting any by the way. Hello seattle from the united states But um, yeah, so That's mostly what we have to talk about right is the retro line at least that's You know had some stuff come out um, I I um I got I got some pre-orders on the uh On the classified series and to be honest, I may I kind of forgot which ones I pre-ordered So I'll it'll be like christmas when I actually get them Uh, do you think uh action figure x versus do you think special mission brazil is a sub team? That's a good question. I don't count it as a sub team um Just because it seems to be you know put together for a very specific mission um Like a discreet mission And you know, they're g i joe often selects certain personnel for A specific mission But once that mission's over then you know, they you know, there's still just part of the team It's more of a squad But that's just my opinion I know uh, that's not Everyone's opinion, but I don't you usually count it as a sub team um I it's more of a mission specific squad if that makes sense I'm sorry guys. You've been typing so fast. Uh, I have not been able to keep up with the super chat. What are you guys saying? Ohio and michigan have been getting slammed with joes that's interesting Because around here we definitely have not been um The mail almost lost a side kill and scooter that you ordered from go bots. I know those guys those are go bots Um, and I think I answered that question ask action figure experts I I don't think it's a sub team in my opinion, but your mileage may vary Um Uh Real iron column says we mostly have targets here in LA county very few walmarts here. Uh, well Then maybe you'll have a chance on getting the classified target exclusives Good luck Yeah, uh When they came out with more target exclusives, um, that's When I lost a lot of enthusiasm for the classified line because I did not enjoy chasing those target exclusives last time Um radical toys says hey from canada. Love your channel. Uh, well, hello canada from the united states And thank you very much. I'm glad you like the channel and it's really nice to have you here um Name name says they have a ton of them in mississippi See mississippi's got a ton of them. Uh, we got we got none Mississippi apparently has lots of them Uh stores in uh, kebek, uh, the gi joe section stays empty sadly. Yeah Um, I I mean and I don't know I mean if I don't know what to do if you If you want to try to find them at retail and support the brand at retail You've got to be able to they've got to be there. You've got to be able to find them And that just isn't the case Dave says uh, the recent idw untold stories are awesome larry is killing it. I am a big fan of larry hama I have just fallen a little behind on reading the idw series. I will do my best to catch up I will do my best But I I'm a big fan of larry just in general Um, but obviously i'm i'm a fan of his writing And uh, and I have read some of the idw series and it's uh, it's generally pretty good uh When it comes to gi joe The the universe of gi joe I prefer the universe of the larry hama comic books. I i'm a i'm a hama verse Uh person when it comes to gi joe that's not to say that that there aren't uh Good things about other aspects of gi joe. I don't know the animated series has a ton of fans Uh, and in fact a lot of people got introduced to gi joe through the animated series Uh, but personally i'm i'm just a comic book guy and I prefer the larry hama version of the gi joe universe um Rob irozeri says I found toy sections around me to be empty just in general since like october Um, yeah, that's that's very similar to The way that it is here. Um, we did get a few shipments of the retro series at our local walmarts We got a few Uh, which is how I got to his tank But I had to really hunt for the thing I had to get lucky um So, um, yeah There are it's very uneven the distribution on these things is very uneven. There are places that are getting a ton of them um But uh Other places that are getting none at all Um mecca, uh, to be honest, I haven't read the devil's do series So I'll have to I'll have to plead ignorance And I will get to it. I I do want to read all of the different series that are out there um, but um, but yeah, I'm definitely behind uh larry hama I've been a fan of his work since I was a kid. So, um, I I got kind of a pro larry hama bias there um The community The community verse of gi joe is the best. Thank you. They gone and hello. They gone welcome. I don't think I said hello to you Yeah, that was that was pretty good uh That was pretty good um Name name says I'm collecting version one bats right now. The prices are ridiculous. Yeah, the price on version one vintage Uh bats have been Going through the roof for the past several months Uh, I'm glad I got my cobra bats like a couple years ago Because there's no way I could afford them now Stephen I I also would really like to see the snake eyes trailer. But no, I haven't heard anything on Uh, when that's supposed to come out. We need to see Um, we need to see a trailer Um Bart says, uh, hello from pittsburgh. Hello pittsburgh from the united states. Thank you for joining Um Yeah, uh, let's see, uh, marvel comics were superior, but sunbow had to put some story in a 22 minute commercial. Um, and again I'm not hating on the sunbow series. I I enjoy the sunbow series In fact, I've learned to enjoy the sunbow series much more as an adult than I did as as a kid But uh, but I'm still you know, if I have to choose I still choose the comic book That that comic book Is a huge part of my personal history and was a big part of growing up for me. So And uh, oh and Uh, who's that them may ever Jogar I'm sorry. I'm mispronouncing your name them says cheers from brazil cheers brazil from the united states And thank you for joining Um, yo, joe Uh, so, uh, yeah, this is awesome. Thank you guys for showing up.  I want to be upbeat Because I'm happy to see you. Hello the trek reviewer. Nice to see you Um Yeah, um Yeah, oh, yeah, so now we're yeah, people are expressing their preferences for certain G certain gi joe media And there's a fortunately for us. There's a lot to choose from um Guys has chuckles ever really laughed. I I don't that's a good question Has has he ever just let it out? Uh A good good question Uh jason I I miss them as well. I'm really really trying to To get back to it. Um, but it's been a challenge. There are some honestly there are some days when um When The idea of doing a A review just feel so daunting that um, I can't Work myself up to doing it. Um And and I I I apologize for that because I I really want to get back to a routine But um These last few months have been A challenge. Uh, it's it's been really tough and I don't want to I don't want to dive too deep into that. It's um We'll just say it's been a challenge and I'll just leave it at that Um, but I I've not been very good at At returning people's messages. I haven't been very good at Anything lately really? Um I've just been trying to to take care of myself and and to take care of my mental health So that I can So that I can get back to doing what I love doing Hello, Eric Russ. Nice to see you um Let's see didn't know I don't know if you guys in the u.s. No, but they're here in brazil We have the vintage 12 inch made by australia Uh, it is called falcon Um, I've not heard of that, but I'm not an expert on non us releases. So that's really interesting um A vintage 12 inch when you say vintage Are you talking to like 80s? Or are you talking like pre 80s? Uh Thank you rebel dad. That's very nice of you to say. I love you as well Uh, which is why I'm here um, I'm wanting to um I just I really missed everyone and I wanted to reconnect and just have some time to talk Like I said at the beginning. Uh, I don't have an agenda for this episode I don't have a plan. I just wanted to sit here and talk with you guys And chat about g.i.jo and just have a nice time um See you later Sir sirig Lee Nass I probably said your name wrong, but have a good evening Um, thank you phoenix. Uh, I am trying to put my own health first, um But uh Making videos has been part of uh, my life for several years and it's I have a sense of loss When I'm not able to make a video um So I don't know. Uh, I'm really doing my best to try to Try to keep up and to put to put out something Uh as much as I can um This is my rifle. This is my gun. Yeah, uh, sorry. I missed that one Um Uh, yeah action team is called commandos emma sow and falcon. I I have heard of commandos emma sow I have heard of that. Um, I just don't know a lot about it. So Uh, yeah, sorry if we're not, uh Uh, sorry for if we're not knowing a whole lot about it Anyway, um frostbite ate too many chuckles But um, yeah, um, I uh, I don't I don't uh Um, I haven't gotten very much All I have for show and tells like the stuff I have left over from the review that I just finished I I got the box for the snow cat out I thought I was going to use the box for the snow cat for the review, but I ended up not not reviewing it um Uh rebel dad said just finished fixing the dragonfly put together about five part part ones to make One complete one never had one as a kid, but you got one now that is hey is there through Sometimes when you're collecting, uh, you Get to have the things that you once had as a kid But other times you get to have things that you never had as a kid and that can be just as exciting um There's one thing that I don't love about the Snow cat box is the the window frame kind of cuts into the artwork Because this is some nice artwork. I really like the artwork, but but the window frame there The window panel for the that shows the action figure It just cuts cuts off the front bit of the uh of the snow cat And I think it kind of spoils the artwork a little bit some otherwise really good artwork So anyway, yeah, I got that out thinking that I would need it, but I ended up not needing it Here's something I got like weeks and weeks like months ago in fact Is beach head. Hey, here's what I can do I just I just it just occurred to me I can do an exclusive unboxing of the pop vinyl beach head Um This is another example of you know, I try to support the brand as much as I can You know when I can find it and I was able to find Beach head here. So uh, why not? Why not? I'll just open it up And we'll take a look at uh at at the pop vinyl Uh the funko pop beach head Shall we Shall we We shall oh we shall we're doing it. We're doing it We're doing it I'm opening it right now It's open There's no tape or anything on it after all Just slide out the the plastic I can put it back in the box if I want to but slide out the plastic and Flip this up push him out And there is beach head There you go with this little uh This little gun there And here's something I like That's painted details on his backpack. It's like the vintage backpack But with painted details instead of being all black So that's not bad That's not bad. They did not skimp on the details on beach head uh, let's see I guess I guess there's a camouflage pattern on The legs. Yeah, but it's a little too subtle I think a little more contrast on that camouflage pattern would have been uh a help But that's undeniably beach head right there And and you saw it unboxed Right before your very eyes You didn't even know that was going to happen, but it happened And here he is um His uh submachine gun is uh is silver Rather than a dull gray as with the vintage figure But um, yeah, it's not bad I'm not a huge fan of funko pops But uh, I do try to support the gi joe brand as much as I reasonably can and these at least are not very expensive Um, uh, thank you very much, uh, them. I I'm sorry. I I'm not I have a hard time pronouncing your full name But them I I thank you. I miss you guys as well. I I do So, um, let's uh, I'll just put um Oh Here here we go. Let me see if I can keep him in frame. Let's see if uh Let's see There well, I can do that, but now I can't I can't read I can't read the live chat There There we go There There now. Now I got a little buddy That was amazing, wasn't it? Um, I I do have uh some other funko pop, um Uh gi joe figures, um I'm not sure where they are right now.  In fact, this is it You're talking about a single point of articulation that they're not really designed to be played with It's it's a collectible. Um And you know you There he is. Sorry about that They're not really designed to be played with so You know, but what you do is is uh, you get a few you take them to work you put them on your desk So your your coworkers are like, oh, what's that?  That's nice um Cobra island says he's 21 subscribers from his goal of 150. Well, good luck, bro Good luck. Um, if you haven't subscribed to cobra island, make sure you check out his channel He's trying to get to 150 Beanie babies, um Well sort of They they certainly have uh, some they share some qualities with beanie babies uh But uh as far as Fads go I believe funco has already outlasted, uh, the beanie baby craze um So, uh, yeah, you're not really intended to collect, you know, all of them You're really intended just to just get the ones that appeal to you um So, you know They're they're fine in that regard. Uh, they're pretty harmless. Hey, it's trek yards. Hello trek yards I'm doing all right. I hope you're doing well. Thank you for joining that. It's really cool to have you here Um Have I seen the price of the hooded cobra commander pop final? I haven't seen the price lately because I got it quite some time ago Uh, and it was not super expensive when I got it um I would never pay a large amount of money for a pop vinyl. It's just I don't love them that much Uh, let's not be let's not go crazy here Um Ski's were huge for us in the uk and ireland bendable. Okay um But at any rate, um Uh, let's see, uh, erin steven Or stephian says, okay. I'm not going to post links in the chat But the name of the channel is prowl and he has uh, uh the beach head, uh animation continuity error clip And another odd clip of shipwreck that I can't place. Okay. All right um I'll I'll see if I can look it up Um Hello, rob vegas. Nice to see you. Thanks for joining 175 bucks. Is that for the hooded cobra commander pop vinyl? I did not pay 175 bucks for mine I did not pay a hundred dollars for mine. I did not pay 50 dollars for mine. I paid less than that. I I I'm not I'm just uh I I like them, but it's it's not I I don't like I like them. I don't love them If that makes sense, I We're not, you know, we're not quite ready for that level of commitment If you know what I'm saying Um, oh trek yard sends a super chat Uh, my snow snow survival donation. Thank you very much. Yes. We we are experiencing lots of snow And very cold weather Uh now you up there in The canada land would probably consider this to be nothing But for us down here It's a lot of something Uh, it's been it's been a challenge to you know get to work and back It's uh Driving conditions are iffy Tragic says hey, what's up? Hey, what's up tragic? Thank you for joining. Um Yeah, yeah, I'm glad you stopped by raw vegas. I'm always happy to see you um And and jeff a long time no see, uh, and thank you very much. I'm glad you're here Um Saucy hayden. Hello. How do you do? Uh david sharp says it was negative for today in dallas that is almost unheard of Um, I've been to dallas many times and I've never known it to get that cold. By the way, hello, dallas from the united states Um Yeah, just another winter in wisconsin. Yes Yes for for you wisconsinites and uh, perhaps, uh, any of you minnesotans Um This this is just nothing But for us it's very much something Negative 25 in cana today. That is insane. That's not that That's I don't even I can't even process that It's cold enough here That I it's hard to imagine it even colder Hello, uh, michael pytel nice to see you two hours of shoveling today well Yeah, I actually, um You remind me I really ought to get out there and shovel my own, uh driveway but um Yeah, we'll we'll we'll see if there's time to do that after the live stream. We still got we got 15 minutes We got 15 minutes to chill out and then I uh may maybe I'm not promising anything But maybe I will uh shovel the driveway. We'll we'll we'll see We'll see Canada uses Celsius either way. That's really cold So, yeah, um, so thanks everyone for joining. Um Let's see. We have we have 115 people watching that is awesome Uh, thank you everyone. I whenever I miss a live stream. I um I'm always afraid that like nobody will show up for the next one Hey, it's what's on joe mind Somebody did show up and what's on joe mind showed up what's on joe mind is also trying to reach A subscriber goal on youtube Uh, what's on joe mind is trying to reach 500 subscribers They are doing a giveaway When they hit, uh 500 subscribers So do go subscribe to what's on joe mind. I am subscribed They do their own live stream Where they have like Like people talking to each other so, um So, yeah, that would be really cool if uh If you could go to what's on joe mind And subscribe to them so they can reach their goal of 500 subscribers So there you go Cinephile loves beach head. Well, I'm pretty fond of beach head myself here We just decided to spontaneously do a An unboxing of the pop vinyl The funko pop beach head Jason sends a super chat Says do you collect action force? If so, what do you have? I do have are you talking about like vintage action force Or the new action force that's part of the valaverse I have some action force. I have some of the five point of articulation figures Um, I have a red laser Um, I have the action force version of the fang helicopter I have I have a smattering a smattering of action force toys um, but um But uh, but I I don't I don't actively collect action force um it's um It's just it's it's just outside the scope of what I normally collect But I do I am a big fan of action force though Um, I especially the their older stuff, especially like action force before it started to morph into gi joe Back when it was like the five points of articulation star wars style figures Um, you know, uh, like the you know, you're barren ironblads and you're black black majors And uh, those figures. I'm a big fan of those and I think they're awesome I hope that answers your question Other than gi joe, what do I collect? You know, I don't really um, I I don't get into any other collecting really, uh, at least No, um No, not really mainly because I want to I want to I have my collection focused and I don't want to Uh, start collecting so much that I don't have space for the stuff that I get so Um, I try to limit My collecting to just one thing um, although I Occasionally get a sampling of other things like for instance, I For some reason I I wanted to have a he-man. So I went out and I got a he-man Uh, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna start collecting he-man Um, it's it's a one-off Um, I might buy a transformer Uh, but that doesn't mean that I'm gonna dive into collecting transformers I I'm a completist when it comes to us release Uh gi joe action figures And that in itself is a pretty big collection. So I'm trying to keep it Keep it in that range Yeah, let me talk about what's on joe mine just a little bit What's on joe mine? Uh started as a podcast and um It is the the the longest running uh gi joe fancast And they have a an amazing back catalog Of episodes that includes some interviews with Some very prominent people in the history of gi joe. I mean they've talked to larry hama They've talked to kirk bezigian They've talked to about everyone you can think of including the the voice actors for the animated series Um They've got uh, just some amazing interviews Uh, I've worked with them a couple of times before and i'm extremely proud of Having the opportunity to work with what's on joe mind Um They were that that was the first podcast that I found As a new gi joe fan as a fan that was getting back into gi joe as an adult and um And I I just I listened to every episode I went back all the way back to the beginning and I listened to every single episode All the way up to current um And it really kind of opened my eyes to the Fan community Um, and it made me want to be part of the gi joe fan community. So I owe a lot to um To what's on joe mind So, uh, thank you guys for doing what you do. Um, I think you're great Um Do uh, subscribe to their, um their youtube channel But also check out the podcast and the the amazing back catalog of episodes on the podcast Very very much worth checking out Uh, that is correct. The law's figure is based on kirk bosigian's likeness That is correct. Uh, the real, uh, erin collins but um Not a paid promotion not a paid promotion, but uh, but I but I do owe A lot to what's on joe mind. Um, I tell you how I found them is because They were part of a panel Uh at joe con at the first joe con that I ever went to um Form bx257 is what uh got me back into uh gi joe as an adult. That's correct, erin um and I first learned of joe con because Form bx257 mentioned it in one of his videos. I didn't even know joe con existed Right and it turned out that there was a gi joe convention And that year they were doing the convention in dallas texas And that's not too far from where I live. So um, I went and I I went to my first joe con and at my first joe con Is where I first heard of what's on joe mind So I had to look it up And I had to find out what it was about and um And and I had to listen to every single episode So, uh, uh, so yeah, I I really appreciate what they do they and they've done it for a long time um Yeah, paid promotion would imply we had money. Yeah, no no no paid advertisements here just just sincerity This is sincerity I'm plugging the show. I'm plugging the damn show Oh Hey, it's codename new to vero 2. Hello. How do you do? Uh, thank you for joining. I'm glad you made it codename new to vero 2 always good to see you um What's orders figure based on the german shepherd? Uh, I don't know which what is it ren 1010 that was a german shepherd I get my fictional dogs mixed up. I don't know Um Yeah, um Would you collect in humanoids action figures? I'd have to finish the gi joe collection first I definitely want to finish collecting gi joe before I really dive into anything else um, and it's it's It's um Uh It's it's a big enough task To to get a complete gi joe collection So i'm just gonna focus on that at least for right now Um franklin says have you checked out the current, uh larry hama gi joe comic from idw Other choice to recap character appearances from the marvel series. Um, yeah, um, I am behind on the Uh idw series. I know I know I've got to catch up. I know I've got to catch up I will eventually But I I'm a little bit behind on the idw series But I'm hey, let's let's be honest. I'm behind on a lot of things That's not the only thing I'm behind on um But hey, it's photo viper Nice to see you photo viper. Thank you for joining Now I do have about uh three minutes left. I am gonna cut this off at eight o'clock Um, I need to to rest and get ready for work tomorrow Um, but it was really really cool. Um having everyone um Having everyone in uh, I I'm extremely grateful that you're here Um, I will I will really try to do this again next week. Um, if I'm not able to do it it's it's really for Truthfully, it's it's for mental health reasons. It's it's because I'm Having a challenge and I don't want to bring that with me Into the live stream. So um So if I miss it, you know, that's why Uh, but I hope to not miss it Because uh, this is Still my favorite part of the week I still enjoy um Coming in here and just talking with you guys about gi joe Just hanging out. Um, just chatting Maybe next time I can have an agenda for the show Other than opening our our friend beach head here Um And yeah, I I don't have any more show and tell. I've already shown and told everything Um Thanks rebel dad. I'll you guys can be my therapy. That's what I need um But we we've got just about two minutes or I actually I guess about one minute now So I'm going to wrap it up. Um I'm gonna say thank you. Um I really appreciate everybody being here I hope to see everyone next week. Thank you for continuing to support the show It means more to me than I can tell you I I really Um, uh, I'm touched by the support that you guys give to the show Um, and uh, I I can't fully express how much it means to me. So thank you Thank you everyone. Um, and with that I'm going to um end the live stream And I'm going to say good night to everyone. Thank you for showing up and Have a good evening. Stay warm and stay safe and I will see you next time Bye. Bye everybody


We had an excellent meeting, it was a... The Israelis have been evacuating neighborhoods instead of entire cities, so focusing in on a much more deliberate way on those who may be in harm's way as they conduct the campaign against Hamas, establishing some deconfliction areas, some safe areas that people can go to, where they can be safe from being in the line of fire, and having a more narrowly focused area of where this military operation is actually being conducted. Having said that, as we stand here almost a week into this campaign in the south after the end of the humanitarian pause, it is imperative, it remains imperative that Israel put a premium on civilian protection. And there does remain a gap between exactly what I said when I was there, the intent to protect civilians, and the actual results that we're seeing on the ground. We continue to recognize the extraordinary difficulty of this task, as Israel is dealing with a terrorist adversary that intentionally embeds itself with civilians. But, again, Israel has an obligation to do everything possible to put a premium on protecting civilians and maximizing humanitarian assistance. This is something that we're talking about with the Israelis on a regular basis, including as recently as today, and including in the President's conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu earlier today, for their loss and for your loss.


Live from San Jose, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, it's theCUBE. Covering Hadoop Summit 2016. Brought to you by Hortonworks. Now, here are your hosts, John Furrier and George Gilbert. Hello everyone, welcome back to Silicon Valley. We are here at the Hadoop Summit 2016. This is SiliconANGLE Media's theCUBE. This is our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier. My co-host George Gilbert, SiliconANGLE Media's and Wikibon's big data analyst. We are here with Tony Cavanaugh, CMO of Actian. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you very much guys. Good to see you again. First time on theCUBE, CUBE alumni. Welcome, congratulations. Give us the update on Actian. What's going on? Vis-a-vis the landscape of the exploding big data world. Here in this ecosystem, it's gone beyond Hadoop. Things are changing, but it's growing. I mean, there's a lot of growth going on, but it wasn't growing the way people thought it was 10 years ago. It's completely going in a different direction. Yeah, you know, it's a fascinating marketplace. You just know that things are changing radically right now. And if enemy doesn't see that coming there, they've got some waking up to do. But the cool thing is Actian. Actian is a very interesting company. We've been, you know, I've heard directly from customers that we've been a little bit quiet over the past few years. So I want to just take a couple of minutes to give you guys and the viewers a view into what, who Actian are and what we do, you know? So it's a very interesting company. We're probably one of the best kept secrets in Silicon Valley right now. We're a little bit of a dark horse. We are actually one of the largest privately held software companies out there. We have over 400 customers. I'm sorry, we have over 400 employees worldwide and over 10,000 customers, believe it or not. I'll tell you a reason why that's so, that is the way it is in a second. But we are a product portfolio company. So we have acquired companies along the way to build the current product portfolio set that we have. And what we do, we segmented those into two main categories and the first of which is what we call the data management and integration business. At the core of that is, I'm sure everybody knows, this name is a core of that is the Ingress database. And I'm sure you're familiar with Ingress. I learned it in college, database class. It's Ingress. It's undergraduate. I won't date you, that's the 80s. But it is, and it's 40 years right now. I think it's 40 years old this year. I wasn't 10 and believe me. No, but it's a proven database. It's an industry stand. It's one of those things that is still deployed, right? Yeah, absolutely. Even to the point where it's almost a sleeping giant, I feel like, so we have some of the largest companies in the world. Give an example of like some of the things. Most people think of Ingress like, oh, it's a McMain family, small selection. It's not like that at all. It's a little bit more, it's larger than that. Can you give an example of the kinds of deployments that Ingress is still running? Yeah, so you have, so one of the large account name, the name specifically, one of the largest airline companies in the world use it to schedule their aircraft around the world. I mean, that's a pretty important mission critical application. We have revenue commissioners in a couple of European countries that use us maniacally and they're no intention of moving off because there's such a deep footprint and they've got such confidence in it that they just have no intention of moving from it. So it really is a solid business. But of course it's got that a little bit of baggage because along came Oracle, along came IBM, along came Microsoft and SAP and they swept the world. But we do have this great, solid, loyal, established customer base on the Ingress side. Along with that in the DMI business, what we call the Data Management Integration Business, we have other products. We have the Versant database, which is an object database. So Versant is in our portfolio. We got Psequel, which is an embedded database. And then we have our integration suite, which is Data Connect, Data Cloud and Business Exchange. So we really do have some very interesting offerings there. But we want to talk about more specifically because more of the show, and I'll take a little time on this, is our big data business, which is the Actin Analytica platform. And in that we have Matrix, we have Vector and we have Vector in Hadoop. So Matrix is massively parallel, processing database, which is deep. We have Vector, which is broad and wide. And then we have Vector H, which sits in the Hadoop ecosystem, so that you can get access to the Hadoop data and you can analyze it very, very, very quickly using SQL. So we can talk a little bit about what Transverse is. How does your solutions to those three things fit into this ecosystem? You guys contributing to open source, you guys use open source, you're just working with open source solutions. You guys harden it. What's the role of Actin? So we make a clear distinction between being open and being open source.  So what we like to focus on is Vector in Hadoop, because we're in with the Hadoop conference here and we also got Strato Plus Hadoop at the. So you have enterprise customers that want certain things and they take Hadoop, use it for what it's worth. Is that the customer profile? Well, yeah, it's a large enterprise customer is trying to figure out how do you get, makes sense of all of that data in Hadoop. There's a couple of, it's very interesting. I've been talking to Gartner and looking, doing a lot of research in Gartner reports and talking to Mike Gutierry recently about what is it, where is this business going? Where's this market going? And he referenced this concept of data lakes becoming data swamps or data pits. So we're pushing lots and lots and lots of data into the Hadoop ecosystem. The challenge is how do you get that out? And how do you get it out at speed? So what a real differentiation is in our analytic, actually an analytic platform, is we're fast. Now I know it sounds like a speeds and fees literary, but we're so fast. We have independent benchmarks, a TPCH benchmark. We just released a paper today at SIGMOD, which adopted the TPCH. So performance-centric customers love you guys. Absolutely, fast, fast, fast. And I'm talking 10, 100, 1,000 times faster than some of those open source. So you allow people to do data lakes with massive speed. Absolutely. All those query using SQL, standard query language. Okay, so let's take the impact of customers. That's probably financial transaction stuff. Okay, now how do, in this world we're seeing a couple trends I want to get your thoughts on and how you see that, what's your vision there? The Docker container madness is seeing that at the application developer Hadoop and open source in general seems to be stalled, right? I'll see, we have Arun Murthy on here saying, on theCUBE saying it's gone beyond Hadoop, which is basically implying Hadoop is one building block of a few other fundamental building blocks in big data. So you have a developer tsunami coming in, application greenfield and brownfield developer opportunities, plus this DevOps cloud environment has now gone mainstream. So you have a developer dream situation here for the enterprise customers, because they now have the capability. Where do you guys fit into that whole trend? Well, I think, well, is there a factor, is there integration? So there's a very big question there. There's a lot of things that you talk about. Okay, big trend is DevOps, cloud and developers. You could argue that it's a multi-tool world, multi-analytical tool world, integration world, ecosystem is critical. So a lot of you are trying to figure out what the chessboard looks like. Yeah, what customers are. We are one of our top, the way we describe ourselves when we're talking about prospects and the market is that we solve some of the world's toughest data challenges. And with our data management and integration capabilities, we have the capabilities there to do that. And then our analytic platform, we have the capabilities to do that. But what we're seeing is, So you have that today, integration is a big part of that. Integration is a big part of what we do. So it sits alongside that Ingress database. We have those additional offerings that allow us to. So the Ingress guys love you because that's a path to the new promised land. That for integration, yeah. For integration. Yeah, and if you look at the even in the Hadoop ecosystem, one of the big challenges on the big data world is data management, it's data integration, it's data sovereignty. So we can, at one start, part of our business, yes. The other side. I'm kind of probably speaking. Yes, yes. And not a connector as in like an API connector. The other side of the business is, I'm going to quickly pass that over, right? Stuff happens on theCUBE, it's live, so it's what it is. And then the other side is the analytical business. It's our analytical business. So what's interesting though is that, yes, there's a lot of this grounds for the developers who are getting involved and who are, you know, really rolling through new open source technology who are really trying to get, you know, get their arms around what is the next big thing? The problem is that, you know, a lot of these open source technologies are not enterprise grade, per se. They really aren't. When it comes down to how do we make this thing work for the enterprise? The interesting staff from Gartner talks about, there's two of them, if I can quote them. I haven't written them, I wrote them down also. But I'm trying to do them from memory. By 2018, they say that 90% of data lakes are useless, or will be useless by 2018 because of just they have become just this murky amalgamation of data. And folks are going to try and see how they can get things out of them. That's right, I agree with that, but that's okay. No, it's a good data point. Another data point is that 70% through 2018 again, 70% of Hadoop implementations will not have realized the ROI that they said I have to do just because of the just inappropriate or unsuccessful implementation or skills gap. You know, there's a skills gap, along with these new technologies. There's this. This is a good point. You've read some that George and I and Peter Birch talk about the valuation of data question, which is, what is the value of the data? You can say, oh, if I'm running an Ingress database, I'm running flight plans on Ingress, that's pretty damn important. That data is pretty valuable for the company. But the data lake thing is interesting. So that forecast assumes that a data is not worth anything, or is not being used, or is not addressable. So you could argue, we are arguing that in the Wikibon team is that if you've got a data lake and the data is just sitting there and it, quote, looks like a swamp, if it's addressable and can move in real time at the right spot, it then becomes valuable. So it's the potential value of the data. So the question is, if you've got a swamp that's not addressable and can't move with low latency to a transaction, then it's not valuable. It's not valuable, exactly. So the question is, that kind of poo-poo's that thing. So you have to have the addressable data out there. How do you pull it out of the swamp? So exactly. So you've got to, well, first of all you've got to have the right plan. You've got to, I don't think we have actually figured this big data world out. The great thing is there's all these people who have got this massive mind share around trying to figure this thing out. We haven't quite gotten there. The future is bright, as we talked about, but where does it land, and where is the value in that? And we're trying to help companies do that with acting and allowing you to get access to that data in a language that developers understand, which is sequel, when it comes down to it. Question on acting and then being part of a broader product line, or in this case, not in terms of, some of the cloud vendors are putting together data management fabric, where it's a couple specialized databases that are kind of deeply integrated with each other. Four or five years ago, like when Nintala was just being talked about and introduced, people were like, okay, so now we're going to have a mature, you know, BI-oriented sequel engine. We'll have hype for ETL. But we had a perfusion of these databases. Databases. What's the access of competition now? So I think here's what's really interesting, and you know, I spent a couple years at DataStacks, which were fantastic, a company, great technology, great people. What emerged from that over the years is that databases are moving to this multi-model world. So recently, we've provided DataStacks, they have issued a release to DSE graph, or DataStacks Enterprise graph, so they're focusing in on different type of problem that these databases solve different problems, right? There's different use cases very much for different databases. There's some of my 290 plus databases out there, and they're all built for varying purposes. So you've got to look across, you know, what is the use case, what are the use cases you're trying to address, and what is the right database for that? Well, the database, if they pick, if they don't have open data, if you have open data, it assumes the database is not an issue. Yeah. You pick your database and just, as long as it's open. Yeah. So, but you have to have it, but it depends on what you're trying to solve for. So graph solves for something very, very different from a column restore. And it does things very, very differently. So you've got that LinkedIn model, or that Facebook model, it's a relationship model. It's not a relational model, but the relationships and its vertices and axes and nodes and so on. And then you have your relational database, that's a very specific use case, as does a distributed database like an Apache Cassandra. Okay, so Tony, you have a challenge. You have actually a portfolio of companies that were acquired together, but now it's a patchwork. I mean, look at Google Alphabet. I mean, you're starting to see that, that's now a norm in corporate business structure, and then build the synergies on top of it. Is there plans along that? Could you take a minute to explain kind of what your plans are with Actian? What your thoughts are? Oh, absolutely, and it is a challenge.  And I think what we have done is we have looked at, you know, we've said, right, data management and integration is one aspect. It's a significant thing to solve for. And that the analytics piece is also something we have looked at as being separate, but there's definitely this across cell opportunity there. There's definitely a cross-pollination. I mean, as we talked about in the big ecosystem, data management, integration, sovereignty is a very, very important thing. Oftentimes something that you've got to think of first, which is something that we have knocked on. But global businesses have to think about that for sure. Absolutely, but we've not done that from the outset. And now it's coming back to being that. So what we're doing is we're actually looking into the market and we've had a, we're having a very, we haven't established business. And we're, as you said, we've got over 400 employees and thousands and thousands of customers. So we've got amazing technology. Now we've just got to figure out where does that apply? And the world we talked about the outset is changing and rapidly changing. Big opportunity. So it's a massive opportunity. So it behooves us. We have to step back and go, okay, what is happening now? You know, in columns like this, they're burgeoning.  Straddle plus the deep in New York is going to be, it's going to be incredible. I mean, we're looking forward to being there. Well, it's always the eye of the storm. You don't know whether you're in the eye of the storm or the storm past your eye, but cloud has certainly over the past year, two years. But this past 12 months exploded the big data world. Now you got compute, you got interoperability. Now you got Docker containers for application developers to the whole DevOps thing. It's just propelling the applications, into the data, into the applications. Yeah, so what we've done, so to that point, what we've done is we're stepping back and we're getting out there, putting our feeders out, doing a lot of research. There's a couple of key trends that we saw, we're seeing popping up. One, of course, is the continued growth of Hadoop. The country to whatever the analysts are saying about whether things are going to be successful or not, the growth is there and it's not stopped. Okay, so my final question, I've got to ask the question that's on my mind, everyone's mind, is there a master plan being hatched right now in acting headquarters? Sounds like you're doing the research, big opportunity, a lot of assets that play here. I think you always, in our business, you've always got to be hatching a master plan. You really do. I mean, it's particularly at the rate at which the market is moving, you've got to always be on top of what's coming up. You've got to be ahead of that next train. Because people expect that of you and for us, what's next is really, we being quiet, I'm telling you, I'm not behind the door about this. Acting is not being out in front of the market and we're going to change that. We're going to change it. As CMO, you're going to change that. And you hope to change that, right? Hope to change that. All right. Tony, thanks for coming on theCUBE. CMO of ActiN here on theCUBE at Hadoop Summit. The world is exploding. There's great stuff happening in big data, big data cloud, analytics, all driving value. Big value, this is theCUBE, live from Silicon Valley. We're right back with more after this short break.


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Jane Fonda who? Jane Fonda if you don't know who she is Brilliant actress daughter of Henry Fonda highly recommend you seeing at least on Golden Pond But when she was about 25 years old she was doing a film with a French director like on Goldie pond Yes, or on Goldie Han, which Kurt Russell knows all about the Director this French director at the time Said because her character in the film was gonna have an orgasm He wanted to have sex with her so he could see what her orgasms were like Talking to Goldie Han. No to Jane Fonda Jane Fonda the director of the film when she was about 25 years old said Because you're having an orgasm in the scene.  She of course said no and He didn't say it as directly as that sounds he said it in French thinking she wouldn't understand But she speaks French so she knew exactly what he was saying, but I guess you know what I guess that's method directing Is that what that is? Yeah, that's called hashtag me to friends sexual harassment Yeah, and then she said when because Andy Cohen was interviewing her when she told the story and he said wow That's crazy. She said oh, I can tell you stories Bet you can her career spans five decades especially back in old Hollywood.  I'm Jane Fonda You can follow us on Instagram Twitter for more juicy content It's based on falsehood a kind of covered look button. I said that like kind of like Jack Nicholson. I'm Jane Fonda.  Oh, sorry everybody today. We have a Ah Actually song actually is gonna get wet and it's from 2009. So probably not cheese Oh, that matters to me is the water. It's called Dean Donna Dan Dean Donna Dean Donna Dan It's a deep down a Dan actually featuring water. Yes, but this is one that is actually a sexy song And not just a mean material Katrina Kaif stole course There's water and Katrina Kaif isn't as only seen one that I can recall the desert song Which was very disappointing and was just dry Too many white people that too.  Yep Must have been a miserable shoot. Oh, yeah, cuz you know, they were on there for at least a day or two It was yeah, it was probably a two-day maybe three-day shoot of nothing, but granted it was indoors, but still The show being sprayed with water and they can't and cold just dry off. No miserable Yeah It's gonna not be fun But sexy. Yeah, very sexy and I agree with you about her sexiness I don't think she gets enough credit and obviously Vicky Koshal is like, yeah, yeah, she does for me buddy But yeah, I feel like she like it she doesn't get mentioned with Deepika I was shawaria. Yeah, we didn't mention her when we were just the other day when we were doing the video and talking about the Women that we find to be the sexiest. She's very sexy. She's a very very sexy lady She was giving me some Ronnie McCurdy vibes right there She has something like young Much better actors, but True Barrymore young jubilee. I'm a girl next door. Yeah, kind of feel. Yeah Like you take home to your mom. Yeah, but obviously yeah, I would cast her I would either cast her I Could you I could absolutely see her for example if you did a remake of 51st dates. Yeah, she'd be great in that role She would be great in that role. Yep. I Agree in fact Why hasn't that one been maybe that's terrible. Yeah, cuz that's a really cute movie 51st dates Although my friend rich was trying to convince me He said it Name the five movies of Adam Sandler's that that should have been nominated for Oscars and I said None Do you think any of Adam Sandler's films should have been nominated well if they would add a comedy section. Yeah Okay, what would you add? And some comedies get nominated, but it's very very rare very rare Because we say it all time comedy is harder than drama So yes, the fact that the people don't see the stuff that jim carrey did or that jack black or whoever the the greats robin Williams jerry louis in their comedy movies. Yep They're Harder to do to make a great comedy that's harder to make a drama So I don't see why there's not a comedy category at the like the globes Yeah comedy musical It's if it's harder and everybody agrees that comedy is harder. Why isn't it at the Oscars? I mean I get that seeing dany d. Lewis being this dramatic thing is amazing and I love it but also What well feral did it in the early part of his career anchorman if you're like That's a oscar worthy comedy right there one and two Like has his elf So like yeah, I think old school adam sand not like current adam sandler. Obviously he's he's just making bank now Yeah, the one that worked was good morning vietnam because it had a lot of poignancy and drama within it about the vietnam war I think it's just because the oscars like to be hoity-toity Probably like they're like, oh, we can't nominate.  I know You can you can it's just like you can nominate stunt people Yes, exactly like I feel like Elevative artistry doesn't always have to be drama. It can be comedy. It can be musical also globes get it right back in the day You can't tell me that There was a better performance than ace ventura With it's jim carrey liar liar as ace ventura one of the most iconic comedy characters of all time all time You could I would put him in the drama section. I would a hundred percent Put an oscar category Frickin nacho libre and napoleon dynamite. Yeah, so I don't come on I don't see why so. Yeah, I some old school adam sandler films that I love. I mean the wedding singer. I love the You know, it's one of my favorites water boy. The yeah. Yeah, those are the but one of my favorites I really like bedtime stories. Yeah, mr. Deeds back in the day is a good one I loved it the most more recent ones. Uh grown-ups one. Yeah, I enjoyed and he's actually a surprise like most comedy people He's a pretty dang good actor. Yeah when he hits drama But most comedians are good at drama. It's not the other way around the fact that Jim carrey possibly the greatest comedic actor of all time arguably, you know, he's arguably that for sure In terms of how great he is. He's as great at comedy as daniel dayluis is great at drama agreed like He's just that He's like built for it. Yes and so like I think oscars just needs to get off their high horse and I agree be more They're like, I don't want to be the people's you don't have to be just add some categories to honor like honoring the stunt people Yeah, um Because I think people just don't like to say like whatever Let's say I forget what comedies came out in the recent years and they're probably It's probably hard to do now because the big budget Comedy films are basically dead in Hollywood. You don't get a lot of them anymore You don't get a lot of No, they've they've turned their eyes to franchise films. Yeah Uh, and so it's probably hard to do now As opposed to like in the Emmys There's a whole category for comedic and because there's a bunch of comedic. Right. That's where comedy has gone But unfortunately, there's not a lot of comedy done Good In Hollywood if it's done they it's usually a rom-com. Yeah, but not just straight dumb and dumber like I feel like Jim Carrey should get an honorary Oscar He should for his body of body of work absolute like jack black you could argue Robin Williams, obviously won an Oscar. Yeah, but it was for a dramatic turn. But yeah, you could give him another one for his honorary Uh comedic work that was once again. He could argue he could have gotten an Oscar for doubt fire. Yeah, exactly Um, so it's unfortunate. Anyways, that's what this is about. No, no one off on the tangent 100% let us know other songs from Katrina and actually that we should react to down below