Aaron Katz is the CEO of ClickHouse, Inc. Before building his own company, he walked a remarkable path working at Salesforce for more than ten years, helping the brand become what it is today. In this episode of Hands On, we talk about the main virtues of the open-source model and its challenges for the future. Aaron shares what it was like for him to build trust with his co-founders and how each founder's profile and experience contributes to the secret sauce behind ClickHouse's success. Tune into this conversation where we delve into how crafting a sales narrative for an enterprise software company is very different today than it was five years ago.

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