E167 Benn Stancil, President and Founder at Mode
The Alldus Podcast - AI in Action
English - January 20, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutes - 15.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today's guest is Benn Stancil, President and Founder at Mode in San Francisco. Benn founded Mode in 2013 along with Derek Steer and Josh Ferguson. While working in analytics at Yammer, they saw Amazon Redshift and other cloud-based data warehouses making it possible for companies of all sizes - not just tech giants - to gather and analyze data.
The trio recognized the need for a collaborative platform designed for people who work on the frontier of data analysis, one that would streamline analyst workflows and make it possible to share insightful and actionable data across entire organizations. With that, Mode's Analytics Platform was born to help data analysts and data scientists analyze, visualize and share data.
In the episode, Benn will discuss:
The journey to setting up his own company,
How he went about building a successful team at Mode,
What makes them stand out from the competition,
Key learns on building a tech startup from the ground up,
Challenges the data analytics work on day-to-day,
Why he loves his job & what the future holds for Mode,
and Exciting career opportunities at Mode