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How Fivetran fails
SaaS giveth, and SaaS can taketh away.
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How Snowflake fails
Climate change comes for us all.
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How dbt fails
For sale: data company, worn out.
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How an acquisition fails
And the simple story for how it doesn’t.
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To my parents
From Minneapolis to Las Vegas.
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Internal tools make lousy startups
The inside of a company is a misleading market.
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A slur on Clubhouse
Will we look this time?
The data OS
Decentralization is overrated.
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Startups shouldn’t care about revenue
And data teams should make sure they don’t.
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Disclose your angel investments
The community has given us a lot. We should be transparent about it.
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The best decision is one
Optionality kills. And why data teams aren’t here to help us make better decisions.
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Will we ever have clean data?
Probably not, but maybe we can work with messy data.
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