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Naous: Major tech companies built proprietary internal operational analytics tools

Jad Naus · Everyone is an Analyst: Opportunities in Operational Analytics · May 16, 2019 · at 9:06

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Jad Naous, partner at Andreessen Horowitz, highlights how top technology platforms gained operational advantages by engineering custom internal data tools.

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“So Facebook has Scuba. Google has Dremel, Rasta, and a whole bunch of others. Airbnb built Superset. Uber built Aries DB.”

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