Looker

“We've taken queries that were taking, like, literally 40 hours in Looker, and we've dropped them down to, like, 10 minutes. Queries that cross billions of rows end up happening in, like, seven to eight seconds on a warehouse.”

“All it ends up doing is you end up having to hire a team of five or six BI engineers to write LookML and maintain these systems for you.”

“The part of LookML that does batch based transformation is, is not the primary focus of their product. It's not like the core innovation that they have.”

“But when you grow, you have to integrate with the ecosystem the organization is in, and we, for example, we have no feature to have a conversation in the data catalog, right? And that's intentional because we want to integrate with Slack, and that's why there'…”

“When people started using the term modern data stack, there was a there, like fivetran, dbt, mode, looker, et cetera. These are tools that. Were built around an idea of how data technology should work. And it was a, it was, and is a good idea.”

“I had a strong preference to use tools like mode or looker over a tool like tableau because tableau was pre cloud and it assumed that you were going to be able to download all the data that you needed to operate on into your local cache.”

“At Stitch back in the day, we didn't actually have hard integrations into Looker at all. It was the data warehouse that sat in between where we deposited data and where Looker pulled the data out. There was no physical integration between us and Looker, but Lo…”

“So at Looker, when we sold the business, a third of the revenue was embedded. And out of a team of about seven to 750, there were two people working on that product.”

“When Looker went to market, we initially partnered with Snowflake, and we were bringing Snowflake into deals, and that worked really well, and then Snowflake started to grow really fast, and Snowflake was bringing Looker into deals, and so so why is this?”

“Google's experiment with Looker has failed, and with Looker, they built a LookML, which by the way, I would say back in 2017, it was probably the best product on the market, but they built a product for experts, and they ensured that it was going to be a produ…”