Andrés Tapia, co-founder and CEO of Restack, says companies are going about AI all wrong.
Tapia and his fellow co-founder and CTO, Philippe Brulé, first worked together 10+ years ago at Mister Spex, an omnichannel optician. After going their separate ways, the pair teamed up again to help companies wrangle their data: how to move it; how to edit it.
Thus was the first iteration of Restack: a cloud service for data engineers to deploy applications with one click. For about two years, that was the mission — until ChatGPT entered the scene…

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