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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Tableau comes up
State of Enterprise AI 2026: Aaron Levie on Tokenmaxxing, Rise of Headless, and AI-Proofing Your Job
- ▶ 36:24 Aaron Levie And they go and they, they know how to kind of like work the numbers and they have another spreadsheet that's living on top of, of Tableau.
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
- ▶ 27:42 Benedict Evans And so you're doing it in Excel or Tableau or Google Sheets or email or something.
Dashboards Are Dead: Sigma’s BI Revolution for Trillion-Row Data
- ▶ 3:04 Mike Palmer And then we sort of, in my opinion, devolved into Tableau. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:20 Matt Turck Uh, what, what, um, has been sort of specific and unique about your approach and, um, you know, since we mentioned Tableau up front, uh, you know, Looker, which was acquired by Google for.
Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
- ▶ 33:10 Justin Borgman And then as soon as you've connected, which is like a, a one-time, you know, setup thing, uh, now you can run queries and you can do that at the command line, like just start to write SQL queries, joining tables across different systems,…
Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
- ▶ 57:02 Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) Like I came in, Tableau was like self-service analytics.
The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
- ▶ 44:34 Jordan Tigani Like Mother Duck, I think we're playing in the, hey, we have a great, you know, query engine space, and you can hook us up to your BI tool, and we, we connect to, you know, you know, Tableau, and Power BI, and, ah, Omni, and, and preset,…
AI at ZoomInfo: Superpowering GTM teams | Ali Dasdan, CTO, ZoomInfo
- ▶ 21:21 Ali Dasdan Put side, storage, processing, you know, governance layer, uh, which is like the cataloging, you know, security, uh, permissions, um, definitely pushing the data for business, uh, intelligence, you know, the Tableau and systems like that.
How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
- ▶ 23:52 Aaron Katz If you think about BI workloads, um, Tableau, Power BI, Looker, for example.
AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
- ▶ 40:15 Tomasz Tunguz So it's better, it's better even than Tableau, uh, in terms of data scale.
- ▶ 41:33 Tomasz Tunguz And then Tableau came and unbundled the visualization layer. 2 times in the scene
Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
- ▶ 4:33 Tristan Handy And at that point in time, it really meant something like, um, I, 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 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:02 Tristan Handy And the main thing there is that it's not technically descriptive of anything anymore, because what I was just saying about Tableau isn't true anymore. 3 times in the scene
How Nomic AI Is Driving The Open Source Revolution
- ▶ 25:05 Brandon Duderstadt Um, so internally we love to throw around calling it sort of like a tableau for unstructured data.
Data Visibility & Control | BigID Co-Founder & CEO Dimitri Sirota
- ▶ 19:18 Dimitri Sirota We have one with Tableau.
Leveraging People Data at Scale | ADP Chief Data Officer, Jack Berkowitz
- ▶ 19:37 Matt Turck Are you a Tableau shop? 2 times in the scene
Behavioral Data Creation for AI | Snowplow Co-Founder & CEO Alex Dean
Separating Data Hype From Substance | Fireside Chat with Mode Co-Founder Benn Stancil
- ▶ 36:45 Benn Stancil Yeah, so, so Mode is a, it's a BI analytics product, sits on top of your warehouse, uh, has like a SQL IDE, has a visualization tool similar to something like you get in Tableau, has some embedded notebooks.
Automated Data Discovery | Select Star's Shinji Kim
- ▶ 2:46 Shinji Kim And last but not least, business stakeholders that you have in the company have more or less direct access to the data today through the tools like Tableau, Looker, and other BI tools so, so that they are not just waiting for the email…
- ▶ 17:44 Shinji Kim Um, so I would say just overall, um, some of the business users that actually currently use SelectStar, uh, they are using it primarily because they got trained in the tool of Looker, Tableau, or Power BI, any of these tools, but when they…
Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 8:22 Felix Van de Maele If I'm a business analyst, I need to create a tableau report, or if I'm a data engineer, a data scientist, I need to create an ML model.
- ▶ 10:44 Felix Van de Maele One of the value propositions that we think of ourselves as, uh, we kind of handle every user, every use case across every source, all the way from the source to all the way to the reports, Tableau, Looker, Power BI, and, and everything in…
- ▶ 17:23 Felix Van de Maele We're still top law on-prem.
Fireside Chat: Mark Grover (Co-Founder & CEO, Stemma) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 1:13 Mark Grover And we've said, okay, we have these BI tools for making analytical decisions like Tableau, Mode, Looker, things of that sort.
- ▶ 5:09 Mark Grover A curated data catalog is a catalog that generates essentially blank wiki pages for your data, and you may have a wiki page for a data set in ClickHouse or in Snowflake or in BigQuery, something like that, and then you may have a blank…
- ▶ 23:02 Mark Grover We integrate with your Tableau or Looker, things of that sort.
Fireside Chat: Aaron Katz (Co-Founder & CEO, ClickHouse) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 3:20 Aaron Katz And then on a visualization layer, things like Grafana and Tableau and Metabase and Superset, and then everything in between.
- ▶ 21:14 Aaron Katz And support integrations for all of the major, uh, front end visualization layers like Grafana and Superset and Tableau and Looker, companies that have invested years in developing a visualization tool, and then other integrations that…
Fireside Chat: Ali Ghodsi (Founder & CEO, Databricks) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 14:15 Ali Ghodsi The business analysts, they were used to dashboarding like Tableau or Power BI, and they wanted to use just SQL at best if they wanted to do something advanced.
Fireside Chat: Jack Hanlon (VP Data, Reddit) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 10:43 Jack Hanlon Uh, the executive team, like many executive teams like Tableau and, uh, and you know, that that can be a little pricey.
Fireside Chat: Ashley Kramer (CMO & CPO, Sisense) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 1:20 Ashley Kramer So next step, um, I, I met the Tableau founders who are wonderful people and they convinced me to come and build out a cloud solution for Tableau. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:16 Matt Turck So obviously there was a massive acquisition of Tableau by Salesforce.
- ▶ 18:45 Matt Turck Tableau story is not against Tableau specifically, but, um, it's very much like when you talk to people, you hear the same story again and again, which is like, okay, yes, we do have BI. 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: George Fraser (Founder & CEO, Fivetran) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 6:54 George Fraser Generated from data in the data warehouse and then they're presented in a dashboard of a BI tool like Tableau or Looker or Microsoft Power BI or you name it.
- ▶ 24:48 George Fraser So you can build your own data warehouse and you can hire a bunch of analysts who write SQL queries and then, uh, use a tool like Tableau or Looker to build dashboards that you present internally.
Data Science Is A Literacy, Not A Job // Peter Wang, Anaconda (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 3:48 Peter Wang Tableau has about 550,000 users, uh, in the last year's news press release thing.
$0 to $60M in 2 Years // Bob Moore, Crossbeam (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 40:04 Mike Tuchen Um, we're now seeing a similar version of that in the, uh, kind of Tableau world, where everyone has a different version of it on their, kind of, individual Tableau desktops.
- ▶ 40:04 Mike Tuchen Um, we're now seeing a similar version of that in the, uh, kind of Tableau world, where everyone has a different version of it on their, kind of, individual Tableau desktops.
3 Heretical Ideas on the Future of Data // Ajay Kulkarni, TimescaleDB (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 19:50 Ajay Kulkarni If, if you want to make your time series data available to the rest of your org, whether it's to, you know, to risk management, or whether it's to a business analyst to, to access it through like a Tableau interface, um, I think that's…
How to Measure Product Success // Todd Olson, Pendo (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 16:44 Matt Turck You know, instrumenting the product, putting in something like Tableau.
Big Data as a Service // Prat Moghe, Cazena (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 8:51 Prat Moghe Maybe you had Tableau.
- ▶ 13:09 Prat Moghe I give you a socket, a cloud socket, and you should be able to plug in and you should be able to say, I'm going to plug in Tableau.
- ▶ 14:46 Prat Moghe So the idea is that if you got Tableau, or you have data robot, or you're trying to run ML, you would just plug in to the top, depending on who you are.
Fake News, Alternative Facts and the Enterprise // Satyen Sangani, Alation (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 6:31 Satyen Sangani And people would get data, and in this world, you have Tableau, which sits on a desktop.
The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 4:04 Todd Mostak You can actually use this to run something like Tableau.
- ▶ 17:04 unnamed speaker I was curious, if you have, ah, if you're using Tableau and the data, Tableau data extract is too, too clunky, would you then just do a live connection into MapD? 3 times in the scene
Drug Discovery as a Data Problem // Sajith Wickramasekara, Benchling (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 18:26 Sajith Wickramasekara You basically run it through some kind of ETL process, and they can plug it into Jump, Spotfire, Tableau, and do kind of more downstream analysis from there.
Becoming an Internet Company // Raymie Stata, Altiscale [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 8:06 Raymie Stata Tableau graphs.
- ▶ 21:47 Raymie Stata And these people are kind of interesting creatures, because on the one hand, they can drive tableau, and they can understand numbers, but the other hand, they also understand, hey, red clicks better than blue, or red clicked, well,…
The Journey to Information for Everyone // Prakash Nanduri, Paxata (Hosted by FirstMark)
- ▶ 9:46 Prakash Nanduri That is, in an enterprise, you will have ad hoc analytics tools, such as Tableau.
The Solitude of the Data Team Manager // Florian Douetteau, Dataiku (Hosted by FirstMark)
- ▶ 17:07 Florian Douetteau Well, you must be into data, and typically a data analyst would be someone which is into, already into visualization software, like Tableau, Click, or this one, and which is by need, he needs to move into more kind of a kernel relationship…
A Fireside Chat With MongoDB CTO Eliot Horowitz (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 10:56 Matt Turck And also a connector to BI tools, right, in the Tableau. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:01 Eliot Horowitz I think, you know, the challenge with a lot of these SQL-like languages is they don't really let you use SQL-compliant tools, so you can't use your Tableau directly with it because it doesn't speak sort of standard SQL, and it doesn't…
The Role of Data in Pluralsight's Technology Learning Platform // Aaron Skonnard, Pluralsight
- ▶ 24:02 Aaron Skonnard So we call it our hub and spoke model, and we've got about probably 15 people on that, that, that core data team, and then we have one or two analysts across every major functional group across the company, and that, that know how to…
The Benefits of Fast Business Intelligence // Amir Orad, Sisense (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 3:09 Amir Orad It's a major innovation, really moving the data from one place to the other, which is much faster, that allows you to run analytics on smaller machines, and faster databases, and make it a bit more usable, and that's really the generation…
- ▶ 17:57 Amir Orad Then you can use Tableau and it's great up to a size. 4 times in the scene
Bob Muglia, Snowflake // Navigating The Cloud (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 20:02 Bob Muglia Tableau, and, and, and, and, and, and business objects, and Looker, and all the many tools that are out there, Excel for that matter.
Ryan Smith, Qualtrics // The Qualtrics Story // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 8:24 Ryan Smith I mean, you're watching Slack go nuts right now within organizations because there's champions internally, and I can't tell our employees, and we have 700 employees, if they all want to buy Tableau, I can't tell them no. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:54 unnamed speaker Hi, ah, so do you have any integration partners, and how would I be able to easily use the data I collect using your system with, let's say, Tableau or another visualization tool? 2 times in the scene
Mike Olson, Cloudera // The Cloudera Story (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 34:10 Mike Olson Prior to Hortonworks IPO, you could go buy some Splunk, or you could buy Tableau, and there was really nothing else that was big data.
Mike Abbott, KPCB // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 4:39 Mike Abbott Maybe you have Tableau, maybe you have them all, but we've always kind of had this notion of, okay, I know the questions I want to ask, but maybe we don't know all the questions we want to ask.
Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 12:00 Vance Loiselle You know, I like to call it a, uh, you know, a ghetto tableau. 2 times in the scene
Chris Lynch, Atlas Venture // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 5:13 Chris Lynch The second company I would have rather been was Tableau. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:06 Tony Baer And I can certainly understand Zynga had a much higher valuation, but you made a statement that the closer you get to the customer, you know, in other words, something which the customer can see, feel, or touch, and you also mentioned…
Robbie Allen, Automated insights // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 7:37 Robbie Allen The other thing is, despite companies like Tableau and others that like to talk about how visualizations tell a story, they actually don't tell stories.
Sandy Steier, 1010data // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 10:46 Sandy Steier If you have a million, Excel doesn't handle a million rows of data very well, but there are other similar kind of tools, maybe, you know, Tableau or something like that, that do handle larger amounts of data, and you could do it that way,…
Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #12 // Jan 2013
- ▶ 10:06 Matt Turck So, um, you know, so far it looks like most of the analytic solutions that have been on the market were essentially sort of point solution, best of breed, and the approach has already been people trying to figure out, um, you know, how to…
Panel: Continuuity, Sailthru and Visual Revenue // Data Driven NYC #7 // June 2012
- ▶ 39:31 Todd Papaioannou Tableau's one that I really like, right? 2 times in the scene
Kirill Sheynkman, RTP Ventures // Data Driven #3 // Feb 2012 (Interviewed by Matt Turck)
- ▶ 7:20 Kirill Sheynkman I want to take Tableau, and I want to hook it up to a Hadoop cluster.
- ▶ 15:59 Kirill Sheynkman Again, I'm, I'm an Edward Tuff fan, and I, and if you look at some of the visualizations, some of the graphics, I like Tableau as a company. 3 times in the scene