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In this bonus episode, Eric and John preview their upcoming conversation with Benn Stancil of Mode.
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Eric Dodds 00:00
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, everyone. We are here with Benn Stancil. You probably all read his newsletter. I know we do. Ben, welcome back to the show. It’s been years, I guess, at this point, since you were first on
Benn Stancil 00:33
Yeah, awesome, yeah. Thanks for having me. I’m excited to be here.
Eric Dodds 00:37
All right. So much to talk about, but just give us a quick background.
Benn Stancil 00:40
I started my career at a startup called, well, I started my career in DC doing, like, policy research for a couple years. Ended up a startup in San Francisco, shortly on a data team there. Shortly after that, I was acquired by Microsoft. Worked at Microsoft briefly. Most of my career was then after that, me and a couple other folks started a analytics bi. We’ll figure that out later, I guess. Company called mode, which sold a way for folks in data teams to make DAC boards and charts and do analysis and things like that, worked on that for about 10 years. About a year ago, we sold to thoughtspot, which is a larger startup, BI tool, was it thoughtspot For a little bit, and as of now, a few months ago, no longer with either of them, and so unencumbered, I suppose, yes,
John Wessel 01:23
unencumbered. Yes. All right. So then for the show, we started talking a little bit about Excel and whether we think that will exist in 50 years. So that’ll be a fun topic. You know, AI was part of the conversation there, and just how we work now. But what are some topics that you want to dive into? Like
Benn Stancil 01:40
I said, I am now unburdened by
Eric Dodds 01:44
Say whatever you want.
Benn Stancil 01:48
Tp the credit of both the mode and thoughts about marketing teams, they were never emphasized. A whole lot of editorial oversight, but yeah, I mean all that stuff is, it’s like, a lot of stuff going on, interesting to kind of to see where it’s headed and get your text Great.
Eric Dodds 02:02
Well, let’s dig in. 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.
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