Business Intelligence

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20VC Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2035
Ramaswamy: AI Will Disrupt Traditional BI Into Direct-to-Consumer Data Apps
“Starting with AI. 100%. I think it's going to be a I think it's going to be a big deal. I think it offers the opportunity for disrupting BI as we know it today, more of a direct to consumer.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 43:29 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
MAD Insight
Business intelligence software is fundamentally about governance, not charts
“Is it's really a governance tool. Like, the charts themselves are important and interesting, but the surface area of the products are enormous and take years to build, because it's all about how do we make sure that the data is going to the right person and it…”
Tomasz Tunguz May 16, 2024 ▶ 42:56 AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kleinerman: Generative AI will democratize enterprise data access via natural language
“I think Gen AI has the opportunity to Turbo charge this type of translation where the language is natural language, and the answers come in natural language, but along the way, there's traditional database lookups, traditional retrieval, and has the opportunit…”
Christian Kleinerman Sep 22, 2023 ▶ 12:43 Christian Kleinerman: Do OpenAI and Anthropic Have a Sustaining Moat? Who Wins the AI Wars? | E1063 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
NO PRIORS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Slootman: Natural language interfaces will severely disrupt traditional BI
“Anybody semi-literate will be able to get, you know, way more value than they ever imagined from the data. And it will change, you know, how products Get used. I mean, BI will not be the same. I think I see that as severely affected by this evolution”
Frank Slootman Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 32:32 No Priors Ep. 23 | With Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman
SAASTR Assertion Not checkable as stated
Zima: Every company above a certain size spends $25k+ annually on BI
“Every company above a certain size is spending 25,000 dollars a year on BI.”
Colin Zima May 9, 2023 ▶ 32:52 SaaStr CRO Confidential: Sam Blond + Omni Founder Colin Zima on the Power of Leveraging Your Network
MAD Insight
Argyros: A CDP is effectively BI for customer experience and campaigns
“You can think of the CDP as BI, but for customer experience, or BI for campaigns.”
Tasso Argyros Mar 2, 2023 ▶ 2:11 The Composable CDP & The CX Hub | ActionIQ Founder & CEO, Tasso Argyros
TOP FOUNDERS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Fritsch predicts BI revenue will surpass accounting software revenue by 2024
“Next year and the year after, the revenue from our business intelligence applications are gonna equal or exceed the, ah, the accounting piece.”
Charlie Fritsch Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 17:06 Partnering with an ERP as an OEM VAR-deal terms, code ownership, exit value impact?
MAD Insight
Stancil: Mode is a BI tool built for people who dislike traditional BI
“It is a BI tool basically, but a BI tool built for people who don't like BI.”
Benn Stancil Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 0:41 Separating Data Hype From Substance | Fireside Chat with Mode Co-Founder Benn Stancil
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wille: SMB business intelligence was a total greenfield opportunity
“The business intelligence landscape was a total greenfield opportunity in the SMB world.”
Allan Wille May 15, 2022 ▶ 19:51 How to Find Product Market Fit | Allan Wille, Founder of Klipfolio · PMF Show
Steer: Legacy BI treats technical data workers merely as metric specifiers
“BI generally, as a category, decides that the technical person's job is to specify the system, right? They build out a menu of metrics, and then The actual analysis or dashboard building or whatever is going to happen by people who aren't professional analysts…”
Derek Steer Dec 28, 2020 ▶ 6:24 Mode Grows 95% to $19m ARR, Turning Analysis Into Superhero's
a16z Opinion
Naous: Legacy BI and Hadoop are only practical for executive decisions
“Well, you can say maybe we should use Hadoop or BI. Unfortunately, these are kind of older generation tools. They require specialized skills and abilities to be able to use them. And so they need armies of analysts to use. These are really only affordable for …”
Jad Naus May 16, 2019 ▶ 5:55 Everyone is an Analyst: Opportunities in Operational Analytics
a16z Insight
Naus: Operational intelligence requires immediate answers, unlike eventual legacy BI
“The first one is that it has to be immediate. It can't be eventual like BI. You can't just say, oh, I need to answer this question and then get an answer like three months later. It has to be answered in the moment.”
Jad Naus Apr 13, 2019 ▶ 8:27 The Future of Decision-Making: 3 Startup Opportunities
a16z Opinion
Spisak: Business intelligence is on its last legs as analytics shifts
“I don't want to say BI is dead, but it's, you know, it's on its last leg. I think everyone wants to move to more predictions, actionable, prescriptive analytics, and you can't do that when you're just kind of looking at pretty pictures. So I think we're seeing…”
Joe Spisak Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:45 a16z Podcast | AI, from 'Toy' Problems to Practical Application
a16z Insight
Nguyen: Modern Business Intelligence Uses ML to Predict Unknowns
“You can think of business intelligence going forward as the ability to apply machine learning algorithms to big data, and not just look at past questions, but also future questions, or asking to predict the unknowns from the knowns.”
Christopher Nguyen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:33 a16z Podcast | Making Sense of Big Data, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
TOP FOUNDERS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Nelson predicts the business intelligence market will undergo future consolidation
“I think that the market, our space will go through a consolidation, but we're not there yet.”
Rob Nelson Jun 14, 2018 ▶ 8:01 1055 Utah CEO: We've Doubled YoY to $10m in ARR
MAD Disclosure
Snowflake will strictly focus on data warehousing over ETL or BI
“We see ourselves staying very close to home. I think when we think about what can be done with the data warehouse We don't have to become, think about ETL or ELT, nor do we have to think about BI and advanced analytics to do really meaningful things to drive o…”
Bob Muglia Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 23:21 Fireside Chat with Bob Muglia, CEO at Snowflake (FirstMark's Data Driven)
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shilmover: InsightSquared is the only BI company specialized strictly in sales
“We're the only sales analytics company or the only analytics and BI company that sort of picked a major and said, we're going to be a subject matter experts in a particular area. Our area is sales.”
Fred Shilmover Feb 14, 2018 ▶ 11:45 935 How to Reset After Raising $27m and Hiring Too Fast
MAD Assertion Supported
Orad: $30 billion per year is spent on business intelligence
“BI is a huge space, thirty billion dollars a year spent on BI from infrastructure all the way to applications.”
Amir Orad Jan 25, 2016 ▶ 9:14 The Benefits of Fast Business Intelligence // Amir Orad, Sisense (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
MAD Insight
Deighton: Visual analytics value requires integrating interface and calculation engines
“And our view here is that no, in fact, the requirement here is really to bring these two worlds together, and you can't have one Without the other, or maybe slightly more generously, the real value comes when you bring the two together.”
Anthony Deighton Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 7:05 Anthony Deighton, Qlik: Top 10 Requirements For Visual Analytics (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

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