Colin is the co-founder & CEO of Omni, the Business Intelligence tool that has seen rapid adoption over the past years. By 2025, Omni had raised $69 million and reached a valuation of $650 million. Many data leaders are now choosing to abandon their traditional BI tools in favor of Omni.
We address :
🔥 Why Colin left his role as VP of Product at Looker to build a new BI tool
🔥 The Omni vision: reconciling enterprise BI governance with the flexibity of Excel and SQL
🔥 AI for Analysis (”chat with your data”): what Omni did differently in its Semantic Layer to make it work
🔥 The future of Data teams when anyone can do complex analyses in minutes
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This episode is made possible by Omni, the next-generation BI platform already used by many companies (Brevo, Photoroom, etc.).
👉 Discover the demos
đź“š RESOURCES
- Jason Lemkin’s SaaStr blog
- Dave Kellog’s Kellblog blog
- Demos on the Omni website (Build in Public)
🎬 CHAPTERS
00:00 Colin’s career path
01:37 Omni’s initial vision
05:07 From Looker to Omni
09:42 Why data leaders choose Omni
15:53 AI for Analysis (”Chat with your data”): what Omni did differently in its Semantic Layer to make it work
20:12 “Building in public” at Omni
24:36 The evolution of data teams
30:58 The specifics of the French market
32:30 Colin’s resource recommendations
33:13 What he likes most about data
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