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Building a $4B data platform: Inside dbt Labs' unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO) Dec 19, 2024 · 51 mentions

• ▶ 0:00 Tristan Handy It was really like a year later when we, we pulled up the chart and we're like, huh, there are now a hundred companies using dbt and we've only worked on a consulting basis with like 20 of them.
• ▶ 2:19 Brett Berson Cut to a few years later, and over a thousand companies are using the dbt tool, with only three engineers supporting the product. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 18:49 Tristan Handy And so we can talk about the like initial design philosophy around the product if it's interesting, but really DBT started out an internal productivity tool to support the consulting business. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 21:24 Tristan Handy And he was hacking to, to build the initial versions of this thing. 10 times in the scene
• ▶ 24:18 unnamed speaker And, and we all just kind of interacted together as peers, trying to figure out, like, dbt really allowed you to work in a new way as a data practitioner. 10 times in the scene
• ▶ 27:42 Tristan Handy and we installed anonymous event tracking inside of dbt for the first time ever so that we could just get some idea of not who the people were, but how many of them there were using the product. 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 31:29 Tristan Handy Even when in 2019, we had a thousand companies using dbt, 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 34:01 Brett Berson So what was going on between the hundred customers using dbt and the thousand, which seemed like you changed your mind?
• ▶ 40:35 Tristan Handy It was like, okay, now it's time to build the cloud version. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 45:14 Tristan Handy The big unlock for us was as people use dbt for longer, the complexity of their code went up and up and up, and it became really a problem for the most sophisticated users. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 45:36 Tristan Handy And so we, for the first time started talking about complexity as the biggest differentiator or like solving complexity is the biggest differentiator for dbt cloud.
• ▶ 47:04 Tristan Handy I think that there are a lot of humans who have had ideas that were very similar to the idea for dbt. 2 times in the scene