Benn Stancil

6 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 13, 2019 by Benn Stancil · across every show →

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May 13, 2019
Insight
Stancil: Companies should hire social science graduates for data analytics roles
“If you want to find these folks, there's a really good place to look which is hiring social scientists. So social scientists are trained to think this way. They are analytical thinkers without some of the technical and quantitative background that a lot of STE…”
Benn Stancil May 13, 2019 ▶ 13:03 The Case for Hiring More Analysts // Benn Stancil, Mode (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
May 13, 2019 positive
Insight
Stancil: Being data-driven means strategic decision-making, not dashboards
“And so, ah, a very uncontroversial statement for this group is probably that data driven means it is not dashboards and daily emails to execs, ah, it is decision making and strategic analysis.”
Benn Stancil May 13, 2019 ▶ 1:11 The Case for Hiring More Analysts // Benn Stancil, Mode (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Oct 10, 2022 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Stancil: Enterprise data market won't support 1,000 unicorns
“The median outcome is the data philosophies of Facebook and LinkedIn and all these kind of early tech companies gets adopted by the enterprise, and so all these sort of modern data tools that tech companies buy today go off and get sold to Coca-Cola and Caterp…”
Benn Stancil Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 34:06 Separating Data Hype From Substance | Fireside Chat with Mode Co-Founder Benn Stancil
Oct 10, 2022 negative
Opinion
Stancil: Data mesh is an uninteresting side effect of failed centralization
“I guess, ah, seems hard to manage and practice. The way I've seen people describe it is basically it's the thing that you naturally create when you're a very big organization and you can't have a centralized data team that can possibly centralize everything, w…”
Benn Stancil Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 31:18 Separating Data Hype From Substance | Fireside Chat with Mode Co-Founder Benn Stancil
Oct 10, 2022 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Stancil: Modern data stack startups face an inevitable market reckoning
“Pretty quickly you're gonna realize they're all stepping on each other's toes, and that, that fallout has to go somewhere. Like, not all of these companies can be the next Figma that they all now say that they are, and so it's what happens then, and I think it…”
Benn Stancil Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 9:15 Separating Data Hype From Substance | Fireside Chat with Mode Co-Founder Benn Stancil
Oct 10, 2022 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Benn Stancil: Analytics tools will eventually embed directly inside workflow software
“You could potentially incorporate data into that, such that the data sort of surfaced to people in the moment they need it in the product you're trying to use to solve the problem, instead of going to a dashboard and, like, clicking on some stuff. So I think t…”
Benn Stancil Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 30:10 Separating Data Hype From Substance | Fireside Chat with Mode Co-Founder Benn Stancil
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