Episode 151:

How To Unlock the Data Warehouse for Marketing with Chris Sell of GrowthLoop

August 16, 2023

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Chris Sell, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of GrowthLoop. During the conversation, Chris talks about how GrowthLoop enables marketers to build customer journeys directly on the data warehouse. The group explores the divide between engineering teams, data teams, and marketing, and how it is closing as more companies adopt the modern data stack. They also touch on the challenges and opportunities for data warehouse vendors in implementing reverse ETL, the potential for a centralized customer data platform, the role of AI in marketing, and more.

Notes:

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

  • The need for reverse ETL in marketing (2:24)
  • Closing the gap between engineering, data, and marketing teams (8:37)
  • The analytics persona’s opportunity (11:53)
  • Interface layer (13:06)
  • Approach to messy warehouse data (15:57)
  • The need for a complicated infrastructure (28:43)
  • Challenges in data integration for marketers (29:26)
  • The evolution of the analytics stack (31:53)
  • Orchestration of the data warehouse (38:39)
  • The role of marketing tools (40:35)
  • Generating custom assets (46:27)
  • The shift towards making data processes easier (48:13)
  • Final thoughts and takeaways (49:23)

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