The PRQL: Better Analytics, Smarter Purchasing, and Improved Profitability with Cameron Jagoe of ProcureVue

July 22, 2024

In this bonus episode, Eric and John preview their upcoming conversation with Cameron Jagoe of ProcureVue.

Notes:

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Transcription:

Eric Dodds 00:04
Welcome to The Data Stack Show prequel. This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You’ll get to meet our guests and hear about the topics we’re going to cover. If they’re interesting to you, you can catch the full length show when it drops on Wednesday. Welcome back to the show. We’re here with Cameron jagoe. Cameron, we’re so excited to chat with you.

Cameron Jagoe 00:26
Awesome. I’m glad to be here.

Eric Dodds 00:29
All right, well tell us a little bit about who you are, and what ProcureVue does.

Cameron Jagoe 00:33
Sure. So I’m the original founder and currency of ProcureVue, it’s been my passion project for basically 13 years. And what we’re focused on is improving, improving profitability for businesses by leveraging their strategic sourcing, you know, one of the one of the axioms that we go off of is most companies are about 10% operating income, which means for every $1, we help them save on their, on the purchasing side, it’s worth $10 of sales. Right, that bottom line. So that’s our focus, and sort of our claim to fame is just are really in depth and really deep granular analytics that we provide.

John Wessel 01:24
Very cool. Well, I can’t wait to hear more about how you’re doing. Yeah, so Cameron, this area is very near and dear to my heart. I actually ran a procurement team for a short amount of time. So I’m really excited to dive into that I love data as well. So I’m excited to dive into that. What are some topics you want to cover?

Cameron Jagoe 01:41
Good question. I didn’t expect that.

John Wessel 01:45
Right out of left field.

Cameron Jagoe 01:46
That is got me off guard. I, I can soar to Chad Valley is my hobbies until kind of the past couple years have been around this stuff. You know, this was what I was doing for my day job. And then I’d go home at night and I’d code up algorithms and projects at home and then sell them on the side and, you know, once it became a full time job, I was like, Okay, I gotta find something else to do. I

John Wessel 02:15
gotta find another hobby. Yeah.

Cameron Jagoe 02:19
Yeah. So I don’t know, I guess what are your guys

Eric Dodds 02:22
mine? Yeah. Sounds good. All right. Well, I’ll say again. All right. That’s a wrap for the prequel. The full length episode will drop Wednesday morning. Subscribe now so you don’t miss it.