Colin is the co-founder & CEO of Omni, the Business Intelligence tool that has seen rapid adoption over the past years. By 2025, Omni had raised $69 million and reached a valuation of $650 million. Many data leaders are now choosing to abandon their traditional BI tools in favor of Omni.
We address :
đ„ Why Colin left his role as VP of Product at Looker to build a new BI tool
đ„ The Omni vision: reconciling enterprise BI governance with the flexibity of Excel and SQL
đ„ AI for Analysis (âchat with your dataâ): what Omni did differently in its Semantic Layer to make it work
đ„ The future of Data teams when anyone can do complex analyses in minutes
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This episode is made possible by Omni, the next-generation BI platform already used by many companies (Brevo, Photoroom, etc.).
đ Discover the demos
đ RESOURCES
- Colin's LinkedIn
- Jason Lemkinâs SaaStr blog
- Dave Kellogâs Kellblog blog
- Demos on the Omni website (Build in Public)
đŹ CHAPTERS
00:00 Colinâs career path
01:37 Omniâs initial vision
05:07 From Looker to Omni
09:42 Why data leaders choose Omni
15:53 AI for Analysis (âChat with your dataâ): what Omni did differently in its Semantic Layer to make it work
20:12 âBuilding in publicâ at Omni
24:36 The evolution of data teams
30:58 The specifics of the French market
32:30 Colinâs resource recommendations
33:13 What he likes most about data
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