S11 Bonus: The Data Warehouse Tax: Using Neural Compute Optimizers to Slash Snowflake and Databricks Bills by 70% on Autopilot with Ben Lerner, Co-Founder & CEO of Espresso AI

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Jul 24, 2025 · 29m

Ben Lerner was a fan of tech growing up, along side being into math and science. Right out of school, he joined a startup called Data Nitro, which attempted to integrate python into excel. Ever since then, he has been jamming in the tech and startup world. Outside of tech, he married to a computational biologist. He enjoys padel, which is kind of like Pickleball meets Tennis, and of course ping pong. Though, with his full time job as a CEO, he often finds his hobby is going home to write code.

Ben realized that LLMs are really good at understanding code, leaps and bounds better than prior ML…