Making Data Simple 🎯 Strategic Sales, AI Smarts & Pixar Roots: Ralph Gootee CTO of TigerEye Tells All
This week on Making Data Simple, we welcome Ralph Gootee, CTO and co-founder of TigerEye, a company reshaping strategic sales intelligence with a data-driven edge. Ralph’s journey spans Pixar, Sony, and PlanGrid — and now he’s building tools to help sales leaders see around corners. From the secrets behind TigerEye's intuitive reporting to the realities of entrepreneurship and the affordability of LLMs, this episode hits both the business brain and the tech heart.
- 00:52 Meet Ralph Gootee
- 01:43 TigerEye
- 04:49 PlanGrid
- 07:43 Monetization
- 08:50 TigerEye's Objective
- 12:38 Reinventing Reporting
- 17:06 How it Works
- 22:21 The Secret Sauce
- 27:48 LLM Affordability
- 34:14 Last Call
- 38:57 The Entrepreneur Dilemma
- 39:47 Where to Reach TigerEye
- 40:07 Do Code Assistants Work?
- 47:32 For Fun
🔗 Connect with Ralph & TigerEye
LinkedIn: Ralph Gootee
Website: TigerEye
Blog: TigerEye Blog
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