Episode 114: Building Data Products and Unlocking Data Insights with Carlos Aguilar

Carlos Aguilar is the Founder and CEO of Glean, a data visualization company based in New York City. He grew up in Washington, DC, where he started tinkering with robots and websites early on and fell in love with the intersection of art and technology. At Cornell, he studied Mechanical Engineering and robotics and did research in machine learning applications in robotics and art. In 2009, he joined an early robotics startup called Kiva Systems, where he got deep into data and analytics. After Kiva was acquired by Amazon, Carlos joined Flatiron Health and worked on data products to help cancer centers and cancer researchers. As the head of the Data Insights team, Carlos grew the team to 25 people who helped launch dozens of data products and supported Flatiron's core data infrastructure.