Tristan Handy
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Dec 19, 2024
Handy: dbt Labs began as a consultancy, not a software company
“My fondest desire was not to go and build another technology company. It was actually to like real companies, real, real customers use the new cloud-based analytics tech that like had already been built. And so I didn't actually start a technology company. I s…”
Dec 19, 2024
Handy: dbt Labs replaced its entire executive leadership team over 18 months
“The initial leadership team that I had grown the business with scaled for a long way, but over the past 18 months, I've replaced every single person that reports to me with like the folks that can scale to the Next level.”
Dec 19, 2024
Handy: Exponential growth requires supporting the curve, not heroic founder actions
“If you are sitting on top of an exponential, then you don't need to be heroic. In the process, like what you need to do is continue doing the things that support that exponential curve. Do the next, build the next feature, make the next customer happy.”
Dec 19, 2024
Handy: In 2019, 3 dbt engineers supported 1,000 companies driving $100M+ compute
“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…”
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Handy: Product-market fit must be constantly re-solved at each revenue milestone
“I think one of the things about product market fit is that people don't realize that you have to keep solving for it constantly. You have to solve for it at zero and at one and at 10 and at 50 and at a hundred and different parts of that journey for different …”
Dec 19, 2024