dbt Labs

“Our goal is to provide opportunities for secondary on an annual basis.”

“Everybody gets, I think it's 250 dollars a month for an out of home stipend. So whether that's we work with a vendor called liquid space. And so if there's liquid spaces in your area, it makes it very easy to sign up for them. But you can also just expense you…”

“We share public salary bands on every job posting, but we don't share an individual's salary.”

“Like just because it's lonely and dehumanizing and because we're built to interact with other Humans. And for many of us, especially for you know, early career folks who are, you know, I mean, I lived in an apartment with four roommates right out of college. L…”

“Our space moves incredibly quickly. And so if we took five years to reinvest the revenue the entire space would have changed by the time we got there.”

“We owned a hundred percent of the cap table at this point, myself and my two co-founders and our employees.”

“It turns out that we raised four rounds of funding all during COVID and the valuations during that period started off attractive and only got more attractive.”

“Dbt core is, is open source. It's used by, I don't know, over 14,000 companies today.”

“The goal that I always set for these meetings is that we don't leave the room without somebody saying something that feels uncomfortable.”

“Making the decision to strategically take a long time in certain cases allows you to create strengths that are uncopyable in, in the market.”

“And then step two is in places where we have high concentration of employees. Open up satellites, satellite offices. We're calling this our many satellites strategy. And then the people who live in, I, we haven't finalized the like driving distance or anything…”

“We have an unbelievably high retention rate. Both voluntary and involuntary. So, so we, there really just aren't that many people who we've hired over the years that are no longer with the company. I mean, it's like maybe a dozen, maybe some, somewhere around …”

“And so our first three and a half years, we were bootstrapped. We certainly could have raised money. But we didn't, we were revenue generating business.”

“I explicitly, I have a doc that says, like, working with me, and what, how do I see my job? And in it says, I try to make as few decisions as possible.”

“I think everybody knows at this point that if I'm giving you a discount on, you know, the last day of the quarter, it's you're probably gonna be able to get that same discount on the first day of the next quarter.”