dbt

“And I think that we actually made some of those mistakes, even like, I think that we could have taken some big risks to align more closely with DBT or to acquire possibly, or to like move into different areas of the stack that we didn't do. Because we were com…”

“The three co-founders of DBT all worked at RJ Metrics. The founders of Stitch, myself and Jake, which became the early competitor to Fivetran and played in that space. Omni, which is a hot new ticket in the BI space, their founding CTO, Chris Merrick, was our …”

“RJ Metrics was Fivetran, Snowflake, DBT, and Looker. All together in one product. We built all four of those products in order to build RJ Metrics.”

“And so we kind of modeled the original product off of Terraform.”

“One of the weirdest experiences was people in that community that were like, that ran data teams, they would host meetups for dbt to try to convince other people to use dbt because they needed more people to hire.”

“Even when in 2019, we had a thousand companies using dbt, And continued, you know, three X year over year growth rate. I still didn't want to take venture, but it was so clear we were doing the product and the community a disservice by under investing in it. W…”

“Really DBT started out an internal productivity tool to support the consulting business.”