RJMetrics

10 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 19, 2024 by Bob Moore · said 53 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Sep 19, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Moore: Stitch matched RJMetrics' eight-year revenue run in 19 months without capital
“So Stitch never raised any additional outside capital. We basically like landed the plane of creating a really good home for RJ, bankrolling Stitch, creating a little bit of outcome for folks that had been involved in the RJ journey along the way. And then we …”
Bob Moore Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 35:36 How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
Sep 19, 2024
Insight
Moore: RJMetrics achieved product-market fit simply by surviving until the market evolved
“Actually we fell into product market fit, not because of something we changed about our product, but because we were early to the market and we didn't die because we had figured out a way to kind of like operate the company profitably and not run out of capita…”
Bob Moore Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 25:35 How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
Sep 19, 2024
Insight
Moore: Founder dismissiveness toward customer shifts signals a lack of intellectual honesty
“When you feel like your rate at which you are being dismissive of people and things that you feel like don't know as well because they haven't been doing this as long as you goes up, it's time to do that intellectual honesty check and, like, See if maybe there…”
Bob Moore Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 42:01 How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
Sep 19, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Moore: RJMetrics alumni later founded prominent data companies dbt, Stitch, and Omni
“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 …”
Bob Moore Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 23:44 How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
Sep 19, 2024 neutral
Insight
Moore: Product-market fit is ephemeral and does not permanently persist
“If you're at zero, stage zero or stage negative one, and you're just a heat seeking missile for product market fit without regard to those other things, the problem is product market fit is extremely ephemeral. We experienced this at RJ and at Stitch in good w…”
Bob Moore Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 7:08 How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
Sep 19, 2024
Insight
Moore: Building a startup by relying on customer consensus severely caps upside
“Maybe you index a little higher on the extreme outcomes version. Like if your north star is wrong, your north star is wrong and you're really gonna stick yourself. But if you don't do that, you cap your upside really severely because your whole company becomes…”
Bob Moore Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 45:08 How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
Sep 19, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Moore: RJMetrics essentially combined early versions of Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt, and Looker
“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.”
Bob Moore Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 23:28 How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
Sep 19, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Moore: Former rival Looker became Stitch Data's biggest referral partner
“Looker, who used to be our biggest competitor over at RJ, started becoming our biggest refer of business at Stitch because the Looker sales reps knew if they were going to close a deal, Their client wanted to see all the dashboards they cared about in the demo…”
Bob Moore Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 37:23 How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
Sep 19, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Moore: RJMetrics growth plummeted from 100% to 10% amid high churn
“The business had gone from a hundred percent to 10% growth and it had a churn problem.”
Bob Moore Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 33:04 How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
Dec 19, 2024 negative
Opinion
Handy: RJMetrics could have been Looker, but missed the cloud transition
“We were supposed to be what Looker became. The thing that RJ was never, and I don't think would have ever been able to anticipate was The cloud, the rise of the cloud for data specifically.”
Tristan Handy Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 3:39 Building a $4B data platform: Inside dbt Labs' unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO)
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