Looker, every mention
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every year anyone Brett Berson 29Colin Zima 25Bob Moore 14Tristan Handy 3Jack Altman 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Looker comes up
Building a $4B data platform: Inside dbt Labs' unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO)
- ▶ 3:39 Tristan Handy And, um, we were supposed to be what Looker became. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:39 Tristan Handy We talked about Looker before, but there were a couple other analytics BI tools.
How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
- ▶ 23:28 Bob Moore RJ Metrics was Fivetran, Snowflake, DBT, and Looker.
- ▶ 28:39 Bob Moore Tableau, Looker.
- ▶ 36:37 Bob Moore These traction points where we were having a lot of conversations in the sales pipeline that were getting closed out as closed loss because people ended up buying Looker or ended up buying some other thing. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:28 Bob Moore Like the, the, the great example would be we had a bunch of customers that churned because they decided to like go to Looker or because they decided that their engineering team was going to take over the analytics stack and the marketing…
- ▶ 48:36 Bob Moore And there's a lot of reasons why I'm not sure Crossbeam could have ever been started by a first-time founder, but this is a big one, which is that I was able to really just go back to, like, the first company ever on Crossbeam was Stitch,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:27 Bob Moore The proof in the pudding to that is that I went out in July of 2018, so this is before Stitch and Looker had even signed up, but I probably had the first wave of conversations with them, and we'd had those RevOps conversations, and we were…
- ▶ 1:01:49 Bob Moore And Looker certainly was an anomaly, but Looker was probably the biggest company that they, they happened to be the second company that signed up. 2 times in the scene
Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
- ▶ 58:29 Brett Berson Lloyd has this idea from, who started Looker, that great software is an act of empathy.
How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni & Looker)
- ▶ 1:14 Brett Berson Colin first joined Looker as one of its early employees, eventually becoming the Chief Analytics Officer and VP of Product. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:32 Brett Berson So why don't we kind of start the conversation with sort of your last chapter, which was playing a whole host of different roles at Looker. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:50 Colin Zima And it was understanding who is likely to renew and who is finding success in the product in a way that they will like have an ongoing financial commitment to Looker. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:36 unnamed speaker Were you able to implement that idea through the entire looky looker journey? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:39 Colin Zima So between like SDR and support at Looker, we were feeding the sales org, the sales engineering org, the engineering org product. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:58 Colin Zima So one of Looker's cultural values was called the kitchen table.
- ▶ 32:36 Colin Zima So like I was sort of jokingly say, like, I do a lot of lookers, uh, support in dbt Slack because one, I can answer the questions 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:57 Brett Berson I wanted to talk a little bit more about product strategy and product prioritization as it relates to kind of the chapter of Looker where you were driving a lot of the product. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:48 Colin Zima I really think that one of the weaknesses of Looker is that we never really wanted to be a BI tool. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:36 Brett Berson One of the really interesting things about the Looker journey that certainly we were exposed to since the very, very early days of the company
- ▶ 54:48 Colin Zima And that is sort of like what made Looker special.
- ▶ 55:12 Brett Berson You, you, you spent the last meaningful percentage of your career at Looker, and you're obviously building something in a similar space. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:33 Colin Zima And I think 20 of us spent time at Looker and five of us spent time at our co-founders company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:09 unnamed speaker PMs at Looker that were sales engineers that just had like really deep product knowledge, because I think that you can't replace an intuition for sort of like the customer conversation with the analytics.
Lessons in leadership | Scaling an org and tactical management advice | Jack Altman (Lattice)
- ▶ 22:16 Jack Altman One of the, uh, evolutions I think a lot of founders go through as they mature is you start with this concept that transparency is numbers, and that transparency is pulling up a liquor dashboard, telling people what's in the bank account,…