The Analytics Engineering Podcast

How Does Data Drive Growth in Practice? (w/ Abhi Sivasailam)

Nov 4, 2022

49:53

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Abhi Sivasailam

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80 Percent Hurdle

01:21

The Importance of Shared Rituals and Training for Data Science Teams

01:22

Setting the Right Metrics: A Holistic Approach to Company Growth

01:44

Flexport's Data Network Effects Strategy - Do We Have Them?

02:56

Introduction

2min

How Did You Get to This Point?

2min

Doing Data Inside of Large Organizations?

2min

Is There Only So Many Types of Analysis?

2min

Is There a Hot Take?

2min

Is There a Difference Between Growth and Data Science?

2min

What Are the Types of Growth Teams?

6min

Growth and Data Teams Should Be Closely Aligned

2min

Is Data Necessary, but Sometimes Insufficient and Ingredient to a Company's Success?

2min

10.

How Do I Orient Growth and Data?

4min

11.

Flexport's Data Network Effects Strategy - Do We Have Them?

3min

12.

Data Is a Voice in the Room, Right?

4min

13.

What Does an Executive Team Look Like When Data Is Not in the Room?

6min

14.

DBT Package Management - Is There a Tooling Needed?

2min

15.

Do SaaS Companies Really Standardize Their Metrics?

3min

16.

The Entities Are More Interesting Than the Entities

3min

17.

The Future of the Semantic Layer

2min

18.

The Analytics Engineering Podcast

2min

Abhi is a growth and data leader, and an excellent Twitter follow. Most recently, he was Head of Growth and Analytics at Flexport, where he helped the company to grow 10x over the past 3 years. Previously, Abhi led growth and data teams at Keap, Hustle, and Honeybook.

In this conversation with Tristan and Julia, Abhi explains his methodology for setting up a new growth data organization, and how you might be falling victim to the dreaded "arbitrary uniqueness" bug.

For full show notes and to read 6+ years of back issues of the podcast's companion newsletter, head to https://roundup.getdbt.com.

The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs

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The Analytics Engineering Podcast

How Does Data Drive Growth in Practice? (w/ Abhi Sivasailam)

Episode guests

80 Percent Hurdle

The Importance of Shared Rituals and Training for Data Science Teams

Setting the Right Metrics: A Holistic Approach to Company Growth

Flexport's Data Network Effects Strategy - Do We Have Them?

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