The PRQL: Modern Data, Old-School Customer Focus: A Winning Strategy with Edward Chenard

September 9, 2024

In this bonus episode, Eric and John preview their upcoming conversation with Edward Chenard, a seasoned data leader with experience in both large enterprises and startups.

Notes:

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Transcription:

Eric Dodds 00:03
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 guest 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 Edward Chenard, who has had an extremely illustrious career across both large enterprise and startups in data. Edward, I have so many questions. Can’t wait to dig in with you. Thanks for joining us.

Edward Chenard 00:34
Oh, thank you for having me. All right.

Eric Dodds 00:37
Well, can you give us a quick background, sort of, you know, just a brief overview career and what you’re doing today in data?

Edward Chenard 00:42
Yeah, I’ve spent most of my career in analytics or as a market analyst. The last 13 years, I have been building and running data teams that includes engineering, data science, analytics at Fortune 500 companies and startups currently, right now, looking for the next big thing to do, talking to some companies right now, I think it might be getting close on so awesome.

John Wessel 01:07
So before the show Edward, we talked a little bit about ENL ownership for data team. So I’m really excited to dig on that topic. And then what kind of topics do you want to talk about? Yeah,

Edward Chenard 01:17
the building of teams is really important. The change in how, like, AI, is changing the dynamics of the space, as well as, you know, areas of like personalization. It’s interesting. It’s one of those things that, every few years, comes back to the surface as an important topic. Yeah,

Eric Dodds 01:34
awesome. Well, let’s dig in. All right. Let’s do it. 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.