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Colin Zima

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Aug 10, 2026
Disclosure
Zima: Omni Paid Boutique Partners $5,000 Per Customer Implementation
“So we push out all of our services externally. Like we would go pay a partner five K to implement one of our customers. And in turn, they learned about our product and would recommend it.”
Colin Zima Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 34:31 He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
Aug 10, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Omni Hired 10 Pre-Revenue Engineers and Skipped an Office for a Year
“Like we had 10 engineers with no customers, but We were very focused on the economics from a very, very early point, like mapping things out. We didn't just spend money. We didn't get an office for a year.”
Colin Zima Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 20:00 He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
Aug 10, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Omni Abandoned Its Own Platform UI One Week After Deploying Internal AI
“We did an implementation internally where we're like, okay, let's set things up. So it actually works well. And literally like that same week we stopped using the UI.”
Colin Zima Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 31:02 He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
Aug 10, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Zima: Omni lost all five early verbally-committed deals
“And we had five unaffiliated customers that were talking to us that we really thought were going to buy the product. They'd all like verbally committed to us. So for people that are doing sort of like normal outbound sales cycle, we had the tech win. And we th…”
Colin Zima Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 2:45 He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
Aug 10, 2026 bullish
Insight
Zima: AI coding disruption signaled an inevitable shift for data
“When Sonnet came out in October, our engineering team started adopting Claude Code at that point, and it was so obvious that the world had sort of changed in an instant in terms of the way that people were writing code, that it became obvious that it was going…”
Colin Zima Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 30:22 He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
Aug 10, 2026
Assertion Supported
Zima: Omni raised a $9M seed and $17M Series A in 2022
“The seed, I think, was in May of 22, and it was nine million, and then the A was in August of 22, or something like that, and it was another seventeen million, I think.”
Colin Zima Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 18:21 He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
Aug 10, 2026 negative
Opinion
Zima: Early ChatGPT was uninteresting and ineffective for data analytics
“I used early ChatGPT for data, and I was sort of like, this is not that great. It's not very interesting. I'm not going to use this. And so I'd say for six months, I was just completely unconvinced”
Colin Zima Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 30:06 He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
Aug 10, 2026
Disclosure
Zima demoed Omni to every Looker user and data contact he knew
“Pinged every single person that I knew that had used Looker in the past, that was a data person, like literally anyone that would take a conversation, I would try to show the product.”
Colin Zima Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 22:19 He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
Aug 10, 2026
Insight
Zima: Demo validation requires workflow breakthroughs, not cosmetic praise
“If you have enough of those moments and those things are unique to your product, it can't just be like, that screen is beautiful. It needs to be like, wow, that's a workflow I haven't thought about. That is interesting. You can see those bits and those can be …”
Colin Zima Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 9:31 He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
Aug 10, 2026 neutral
Insight
Scaling B2B SaaS Requires Execution Across All Channels Simultaneously
“Everyone hopes that there's just some magical channel that they haven't thought of that when they turn it on, like will inflect the business. What we found that is like the least satisfying, but sort of most obvious conclusion that you could possibly imagine i…”
Colin Zima Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 32:19 He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
Aug 10, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Zima: Omni took nine months to acquire its first product user
“It probably took us like nine months until we had our first user in the product.”
Colin Zima Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 2:20 He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
Aug 10, 2026
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Zima: Omni secured handshake funding deal four days after leaving Looker
“I talked to first round the day after I left looker. And so we raised money or we didn't even raise the money. We had a handshake agreement to raise the money like four days after we left the company.”
Colin Zima Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 17:45 He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
Aug 10, 2026
Insight
Zima: Replacement products must replicate existing features despite lacking differentiation
“The tricky thing is you need to build enough of the existing space to replace it, even if that is none of your differentiation.”
Colin Zima Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 26:03 He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
Aug 10, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Zima: Omni built in a week features that took Looker nine months
“Like, there were features that took us nine months at Looker that we built in a week at Omni.”
Colin Zima Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 27:38 He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
Aug 10, 2026 negative
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Zima: Looker's semantic layer architecture was extremely rigid
“Looker was built on the data model. So this idea of build a semantic layer, it does everything. It was extremely rigid.”
Colin Zima Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 15:52 He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
Aug 10, 2026 negative
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Zima: Combining SQL tiles and governed metrics was hard in legacy BI
“Before it would be like, I need to make a dashboard that has a SQL tile over here and a governed metric over here. I know that sounds like the simplest thing ever, shockingly hard to do in every single BI tool that existed.”
Colin Zima Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 29:33 He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
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