Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Nick’s background and career journey (2:40)
• What Transform does (5:53)
• Metrics layer vs. metrics store (8:04)
• Signals vs. metrics (13:24)
• The user of a metric layer (14:34)
• Using Transform within an organization (17:05)
• How to fuse two sources into a metric (23:54)
• Currently supported databases (28:46)
• Community engagement (31:33)
• Optimizing for queries, metrics, and use cases (35:33)
• Technology and the human factor (40:49)
• Managing metrics amidst fast-paced change (46:53)
• Out-of-the-box metrics store (49:26)

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