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M&A, competition, pricing, and investing | Julia Schottenstein (dbt Labs)

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career

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Challenges of growth and community involvement at DBT Labs

Over 30% of employees at DBT Labs have contributed to the data transformation workflow/nThe DBT Slack community has 50,000 members/nEmployees in the community provide valuable feedback and assistance/nNotable frameworks or processes include 'worse is better' and 'TechDOT is a champagne problem'/nPerfectionism should be avoided and instead focus on shipping a good enough product

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Julia Schottenstein is a product lead at dbt Labs, a data transformation company, and an active angel investor in data and infrastructure startups. She first got excited about dbt in 2019 when she was a VC at NEA and decided to make the leap from investor to operator by joining dbt Labs. She also co-hosts the dbt Labs Analytics Engineering Podcast, a show about data trends that impact analytics engineers’ work. In today’s episode, we discuss:

• Advice for founders hoping to improve their M&A outcome

• How to strategically think about competition

• How to determine your paid features and have willingness-to-pay conversations

• Why Julia lives by “worse is better” and “tech debt is a champagne problem”

• Lessons from dbt Labs

• What PMs can learn from investors

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Find the full transcript at: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/m-and-a-competition-pricing-and-investing

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Where to find Julia Schottenstein:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/j_schottenstein

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-schottenstein-25424318/