216: From Raw Data to Business Results: Building High-Impact Data Teams with Ethan Aaron and John Steinmetz
Update: 2024-11-20
Description
Highlights from this week’s conversation include:
- Ethan's Background (0:47 )
- John's Background (1:16 )
- Data Teams vs. Engineering Teams (2:04 )
- Career Paths in Data (3:40 )
- Pressure of Large Companies (6:10 )
- Contrasting Industries: Expedia vs. Gallo (9:02 )
- Establishing Trust in Data (11:30 )
- From Sales to Data (16:30 )
- Understanding Success Metrics (18:58 )
- Creating Daily Business Value (23:03 )
- Aligning Data Work with Leadership Goals (29:30 )
- Differences Between Data and Software Engineering (31:25 )
- The Role of Data in Business (35:56 )
- Understanding Data Contracts (39:35 )
- Accuracy vs. Usability in Data (41:51 )
- Observational Skills in Data Roles (44:03 )
- Defining Product in Data vs. Software (47:07 )
- Final Thoughts and Takeaways (52:42 )
The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.
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