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Tristan Handy

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CEO and Founder dbt Labs

Tristan Handy is the Founder and CEO of dbt Labs, a leading player in the data transformation space used by 60,000 companies including JetBlue, HubSpot, Dunelm, and SunRun. He has over two decades of experience as a data practitioner spanning large enterprises and startups. Handy’s expertise and data industry best practices reach thousands of subscribers and listeners weekly through his newsletter and podcast on analytics engineering.

Bio from: Small Data SF 2025

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Organizational epistemology. Or: How do we know stuff?

For over a decade, technologists thought that the hard thing about harnessing the exploding amount of data would be about technology: how to store it all, how to process it all, how to analyze it all. Turns out that’s not the hard part. Just as in the wider world, organizations are going through an epistemic crisis: they’re having a hard time knowing what is true and what is false.

Most organizations might not have flat-earthers, fake news, and state-sponsored Twitter bots conducting information warfare, but their challenges determining what’s true are just as existential. Solving them will require good tooling, but even moreso will require a set of core values and supporting cultural norms.

In this video, Tristan Handy, CEO and co-founder of Fishtown Analytics asks: what does that future look like?