Leading tech companies like Facebook and Airbnb are building tools to solve problems at the bleeding edge of the data ecosystem. The complexity and scale of these problems are not typical, even at most tech companies. The vast majority struggle with far more fundamental challenges around logging, processing, moving, and analyzing data. This talk will outline the the problems this "silent majority" of tech companies face, and survey how a new stack of data tools is helping them quickly build impressive data infrastructures from the ground up.
Benn Stancil is a cofounder of Mode, an analytics and BI company that was bought by ThoughtSpot in 2023. While at Mode, Benn held roles leading Mode’s data, product, marketing, and executive teams; at ThoughtSpot, he was the Field CTO. More recently, Benn worked on the analytics team on the Harris for President campaign. He regularly writes about data and technology at benn.substack.com.