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Benn Stancil is a co-founder of Mode, a business intelligence tool acquired by ThoughtSpot in 2023. At Mode, he led the data, product, marketing, and executive teams. He writes about data and technology at benn.substack.com. Before founding Mode, he worked on analytics teams at Microsoft and Yammer.

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#190: I See Your Data Layer and Raise You a Metrics Layer with Benn Stancil

2022-04-05 · The Analytics Power Hour Listen

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with Val Kroll , Julie Hoyer , Tim Wilson (Analytics Power Hour - Columbus (OH) , Moe Kiss (Canva) , Michael Helbling (Search Discovery) , Benn Stancil (Mode)

Modern Data Stack

"Modern art" was a terrible label because, ya' know, time would pass and here we are 50 years after the end of that period shaking our heads at what a short-sighted semantic gaff that was. We share that observation for no particular reason. On this episode, we sat down with broad, deep, and entertaining thinker Benn Stancil from Mode to talk about one facet of the modern data stack: the metrics layer. What is it? Who's thinking about solving for it? What is a monthly DAU? These are questions to ponder that, hopefully, won't leave you impersonating a piece of modern art. For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.