dbt Labs

“Tristan said, we're gonna raise some money. He had a term sheet from a firm that he liked. It was a good venture fund. But he also liked me, and he wanted to give me a shot, and I was, like, super excited to get that message, like, this is my chance, and unfor…”

“And when we lose a deal, we most often lose it to dbt open source.”

“Like this was the year where Snowflake went From a four billion dollar company to a twelve billion dollar company.”

“We have 8000 companies using our scheduler. We have to manage ten million runs per month.”

“There are a few areas that we do want to hold our ground and that's in our transformation standard as well as our semantic standard because we believe those two are better served together for the user's sake.”

“20,000 companies using dbt every single week, and that attracts partners to want to build for dbt.”

“I was just so convicted that it was going to be a special company that I asked to even put my personal money in, and I asked to put, like, a very irresponsible, irrational amount nearly, like, 20% of my liquid net worth into DBT because I was so convinced that…”

“When we talk about what is the value of dbtlabs to our customers, they often talk about how it's either 20 to 35% as valuable as what they spend on their cloud data warehouse. But what we charge our customers is a very small fraction of that 20 to 35%, and tha…”

“We think about dbt open source. It's really the guts of the data transformation. It's where you describe your business logic. And then on the cloud side, we build proprietary software that supercharges the development life cycle and the productionization of db…”