Looker

“I don't know a venture-backed startup that doesn't use Looker for analytics because everybody knows that, like, that's one of the first things that you buy.”

“Looker is the same thing. It's the changes in databases are really what made Looker possible. The architectural changes in SQL databases is really what Looker is built on. It was the thing that is now possible because of it is that these big scanning databases…”

“You can't run a car at the red line across the country or the car is going to blow up. It just doesn't work, right? It's a, it's the wrong thing. The car, you'll wear out the car early. It'll be a short life. It won't produce good results ultimately.”

“And then business processes need to be automated. You should build your business so that it isn't hard work. I mean, if you're doing stuff that's fully manual, that's a mistake. You haven't figured out how to automate it enough.”

“Setting up Looker, the first rule is that if anybody asks you a question at Looker, you stop and answer it, and if they ask you the same question twice, you stop and answer it again, and you never make anybody feel bad for asking a question, and you keep the m…”

“The old startups are a hard story just hasn't been true for us. It's been a lot of work. It's been a tremendous amount of work, but we haven't had the hard things like the, we haven't had any of the oh shit moments really haven't happened for us, which is fant…”

“I really think that hiring people that like to be with each other is great, and that the company should figure out how to help make that happen. Like, it should endorse that, and it's good for the company.”

“If you imagine a white wall and a paintball gun, and you're going to try to cover the white wall by shooting paintballs at it, and each pattern of the paintball is people's different skills. It's the question is, how few people can you cover the wall initially…”

“If you never get the lemon, you're not trying hard enough. You're not taking enough risk. If you get the lemon all the time, you're taking too much risk.”

“The first week I was there was when Tomas closed the Looker Series A. They had 15 people there. I think now they have over 600, and they've raised hundreds of millions of dollars.”

“It was Looker. And you know, the story there was in 2012, Redshift was the fastest growing product inside of AWS, and Tableau was the dominant BI product. And there was a thesis that there would be a new BI product that would be architecture for the cloud.”

“Every day, the first thing I look at, right or wrong, probably wrong, but it's revenue of the previous day. I receive a looker dashboard, right?”

“We moved away from Looker, right? Google's Looker product for visualizations. It's super expensive, and we moved to do it in Snowflake. And it's been a lot cheaper. It's worked really well. Part of that migration is moving all of our dashboards and all of the …”