Katrin Ribant

Founder and CEO, Ask-Y · 1 appearance on the record.

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She co-founded the marketing intelligence platform Datorama and served as its Chief Solutions Officer until its acquisition by Salesforce in 2018 for over $800 million. She currently leads Ask-Y, an AI-native operational analytics company, and hosts its podcast, Knowledge Distillation.

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218 words/min while actually speaking · 45.8 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Katrin Ribant: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

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What they said6 Episodes1

Everything Katrin Ribant said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Ribant: Harmonizing marketing data is harder than simply integrating sources

“All of those execution platforms need to be connected together, so the data needs to be extracted and integrated. So there is one challenge around connecting to the data source and actually integrating the data source. But the second challenge, which is a litt…”

Katrin Ribant Nov 9, 2016 ▶ 4:28 Marketing With Data // Katrin Ribant, Datorama [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Insight

Ribant: Traditional BI specs become outdated before they are even finished

“In most of the projects that I have been involved in, if you do something like this, by the time that you have finished the specifications, everything or half of what's in the specifications has already changed.”

Katrin Ribant Nov 9, 2016 ▶ 9:55 Marketing With Data // Katrin Ribant, Datorama [FirstMark's Data Driven]

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Ribant: Datorama avoids privacy pushback by training on user actions, not data

“No, never because we don't really, I mean, we don't at such use your data, right? We use your actions and you self benefit from your own actions as well. So you are, you know, integrating a first data source and maybe it's the first time we see it. So you're d…”

Katrin Ribant Nov 9, 2016 ▶ 15:30 Marketing With Data // Katrin Ribant, Datorama [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Disclosure

Ribant: Datorama mostly competes against fragmented, multi-tool traditional BI stacks

“Mostly what we see in terms of competition is, if you remember the slide where I had the whole process with the, all the different pieces, an ETL tool, a database, et cetera. That is mostly the competitive set that we, ah, that we see.”

Katrin Ribant Nov 9, 2016 ▶ 17:34 Marketing With Data // Katrin Ribant, Datorama [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Insight

Ribant: Marketing analysts rarely input the data they are forced to analyze

“The person who analyzes the data is rarely the person who's responsible for putting the data into the platform that will produce it.”

Katrin Ribant Nov 9, 2016 ▶ 8:09 Marketing With Data // Katrin Ribant, Datorama [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Disclosure

Datorama planned to apply crowdsourced machine learning to marketing insights

“We plan to take this approach further into insights over the course of next year, and kind of bring an ability to crowdsource the same type of machine learning to you know, to help marketers understand across the complexity of KPIs that they have in their plat…”

Katrin Ribant Nov 9, 2016 ▶ 14:18 Marketing With Data // Katrin Ribant, Datorama [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Marketing With Data // Katrin Ribant, Datorama [FirstMark's Data Driven]	Nov 9, 2016	17m

Katrin Ribant

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