Looker went from a single customer to more than 1700, from a small, scrappy team in Santa Cruz to a 700-person company spanning eight offices around the globe. Now on the heels of its acquisition by Google, co-founders Lloyd Tabb and Ben Porterfield, CEO Frank Bien, and first investor Bill Trenchard come together to fill in the details and dig into the lessons learned from Looker's founding story.

Looker's Founding Team on How They Turned A 216-Word Pitch Email Into A $2.6 Billion Acquisition

Prepare a box of tissues! I’m about to drop a truth bomb about statistics and data science that’ll bring tears to your eyes.

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The Saddest Equation in Data Science

Welcome to CDO battlescars — a podcast series where we talk to data leaders across data engineering, analytics, data science on the challenges they encountered in their journey of transforming raw data into insights! 

In this episode, I talk to Anil Madan at Intuit on battlescars in two areas: Standardization of business metrics and Democratization of Experimentation within the enterprise. Anil is the VP of Data and Analytics for Intuit’s Small Business and Self Employed group. He has over 25 years of experience in the data space across Intuit, PayPal,eBay — a poineer in building data infrastructure and value creation in the form of products, experimentation, data advertising, digital marketing, payments, and many more.

CDO Battlescars Podcast: Episode 1

Many organizations desire to develop and leadership culture, but few know how. Here are some practical tips on how to establish a leadership culture.  In today’s episode, Chris and Perry discuss the importance of a leadership culture and how they always begin with leaders learning leadership.

CDO Battlescars Podcast: Episode 1

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