The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: Modern Data, Old-School Customer Focus: A Winning Strategy with Edward Chenard

Episode Date: September 9, 2024

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Welcome to the Data Stack Show Prequel. This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You'll get to meet our guest and hear about the topics we're going to cover. If they're interesting to you, you can catch the full-length show when it drops on Wednesday. Welcome back to the show. We're here with Edward Chouinard, who has had an extremely illustrious career across both large enterprise and startups in data. Edward, I have so many questions. Can't wait to dig in with you. Thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me.

All right. Well, can you give us a quick background, sort of, you know, just a brief overview career and what you're doing today in data? Yeah, I've spent most of my career in analytics or I was a market analyst. The last 13 years, I have been building and running data teams that includes engineering, data science, analytics at Fortune 500 companies and startups. Currently, right now, looking for the next big thing to do. Talking to some companies right now, I think it might be getting close on. Awesome. So before the show, Edward, we talked a little bit about P&L ownership

or data teams. So I'm really excited to dig in on that topic. And then what kind of topics do you want to talk about? Yeah, the building of teams is really important. The change in how like AI is changing the dynamics of the space, as well as, you know, areas of like personalization. It's interesting. It's one of those things that every few years comes back to the surface as an important topic. Awesome. Well, let's dig in. All right, let's do it. All right. That's a wrap for the prequel. The full length episode will drop Wednesday morning. Subscribe now so you don't miss it.