B2B community building + how dbt Labs built a 25,000+ member community with Janessa Lantz, VP of Marketing
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Janessa Lantz is VP of Marketing at dbt Labs an open source data transformation tool used by ~9000 companies. Prior to dbt Labs Janessa worked at HubSpot as Senior Manager, Communications and Director of Marketing at RJ Metrics. Dave and Janessa talk about how dbt Labs has built a community of 25,000+ professionals in analytics and data engineering, lessons as a first-time startup marketing leader, building a relationship with the CEO, transitioning from specialist to generalist, the power of building a training program for customers, and how to build your own publishing company as a B2B SaaS brand.
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