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Zima: Looker and Tableau Acquisitions Left a Strategic Void in BI
“Looker and Tableau got acquired within a week of each other. And so again, now this gigantic market that is BI that has existed for the last 40 years has a pretty large sort of strategic hole in terms of there's not a new generational company that exists in BI…”
Colin Zima Oct 12, 2023 ▶ 55:47 How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni & Looker)
Opinion
Handy: Pre-2016 data tech treated analysts as non-technical users
“Data tech prior to 2016, always thought of data analysts as kind of low level, non-technical people. You can see that in Excel or Tableau or other products that like existed before that. Yeah, you can do powerful things with these products, but they're not fun…”
Tristan Handy Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 19:09 Building a $4B data platform: Inside dbt Labs' unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO)
Insight
Kramer: Open core model accelerates innovation via shared customer code contributions
“As customers are contributing code to our platform, we are able to share that as part of our platform with the entire world. So it sort of opens up all the contributors in the world. To be part of our team and part of our development and innovation and really …”
Ashley Kramer Oct 26, 2023 ▶ 4:07 The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (GitLab CMO/CSO)
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