Rogojan: Early startups should hire fractional data engineers and full-time analysts
Ben Rogojan · Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy · Jan 23, 2025 · at 46:35
Ben Rogojan, data engineering consultant known as Seattle Data Guy, advises host Matt Turck on how Seed and Series A startups should structure early data hiring.
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“I do think like if you're early starting out, There's no problem in probably bringing on some sort of consultant to do maybe more of the data engine work and then bring on a full-time maybe analyst to kind of work on top of that is what I'd imagine would be good.”
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