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Mike Ritchie

Founder & CEO, Definite. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Mike Ritchie is an analytics engineer and entrepreneur who founded Definite, an AI-native data platform that unifies ETL, data lakes, and business intelligence. He previously co-founded reverse-ETL startup SeekWell (acquired by ThoughtSpot in 2021) and served as Chief Risk Officer at Blispay.

What they said4 Shows1

Everything Mike Ritchie said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Insight

Ritchie: Bootstrapping Causes Far Less Stress Than Pitching VCs

“There was also just like a stress shift. Like we just became a lot less stressed out. I still worked extremely hard. We still all worked extremely hard, but there was a lot less pressure of like, Hey, you have to hit this one tiny home run of convincing one ou…”

Mike Ritchie Aug 25, 2020 ▶ 6:14 Episode 511 | Raising Prices & Re-writing Your Codebase

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Opinion

Ritchie: Tableau and Traditional BI Tools Fail at Ad-Hoc Analysis

“There's a lot of like edge cases that BI tools do really terribly with, especially some of the more traditional business intelligence platforms like Tableau. So it's really bad at pushing data out. It's really bad at doing like ad hoc analysis. It doesn't have…”

Mike Ritchie Aug 25, 2020 ▶ 9:25 Episode 511 | Raising Prices & Re-writing Your Codebase

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Insight

Ritchie: Users Prefer Pushed Data Alerts Over Pulling Dashboards

“People want data and information pushed to them versus having to remember to go check it.”

Mike Ritchie Aug 25, 2020 ▶ 28:28 Episode 511 | Raising Prices & Re-writing Your Codebase

STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Disclosure

Ritchie: SeekWell Wasted Time Modifying Product to Fit VC Narrative

“We weren't really able to convince people that it was a billion dollar opportunity and we ended up wasting a lot of time kind of iterating on the product and trying to convince people that we fit that narrative of, you know, the billion dollar story.”

Mike Ritchie Aug 25, 2020 ▶ 4:06 Episode 511 | Raising Prices & Re-writing Your Codebase

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Mike's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF USLEDGER	Founder & CEO, Definite	1	4	—	full record on Startups For the Rest of Us →