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1021: How dbt Won Analytics Engineering, with dbt Lab’s CEO Tristan Handy

aired Aug 25, 2026 · 51.0m
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Summary

Today's exceptional guest coined the term analytics engineering. He built the tool 100,000 data teams rely on and now says agents can compress a million dollar year-long data migration into just six weeks.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, data, know, including: He built the tool 100,000 data teams rely on and now says agents can compress a million dollar year-long data migration into just six weeks.

Key takeaways
  1. 01He built the tool 100,000 data teams rely on and now says agents can compress a million dollar year-long data migration into just six weeks
  2. 02In this episode, he explains why he turned down acquisition offers for years, how the semantic layer keeps AI agents from confidently getting your metrics wrong, and how skill file
  3. 03who knew there you go and so that was a decade ago that you founded fishtown analytics now dbt labs as most people would know it you've raised hundreds of millions of dollars over
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