Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO of Airbyte, discusses the company's mission to address the long tail of data connectors with an open source solution. He explains how they have managed to overcome the plateau of supported connectors by working with their community and customers to share the maintenance load. The conversation also touches on Airbyte's partnership with Snowflake, its growth during the pandemic, and how it can help companies become AI factories by providing more data for powering AI algorithms.