How to Sell Trino to Your Boss: Why Trino Delivers More Performance per Dollar

In this clip from our keynote presentation How to Sell Trino to Your Boss, Justin Borgman, CEO and Co-Founder of Starburst, explains the core value proposition every engineering leader cares about: performance per dollar. AI runs on compute, and Trino keeps you flexible as those compute demands grow. In this video, we break down how Trino unifies your data sources, optimizes compute, and allows you to power both analytics and AI workloads efficiently using a single data foundation. You’ll learn how Trino achieves real cost and performance gains: 1. A SQL engine purpose-built for massive scale 2. Pushdown computation for federated joins 3. Shared metadata + caching to avoid redundant scans 4. Elastic autoscaling so you only pay for compute when workloads need it 5. Federated querying to eliminate unnecessary pipelines, storage, and duplication The result? Less idle compute, less need for costly data centralization, and more performance per dollar. These are the exact reasons that major global enterprises trust Trino at scale. If you’re trying to articulate Trino’s ROI or explain why it’s built for AI-era workloads, this clip gives you the strongest talking points. #Trino #DataEngineering #Datalakehouse #TrinoImplementation #Datafederation