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 :
š„ Why Colin left his role as VP of Product at Looker to build a new BI tool
š„ The Omni vision: reconciling enterprise BI governance with the flexibity of Excel and SQL
š„ AI for Analysis (āchat with your dataā): what Omni did differently in its Semantic Layer to make it work
š„ 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.).
š Discover the demos
š RESOURCES
- Jason Lemkinās SaaStr blog
- Dave Kellogās Kellblog blog
- Demos on the Omni website (Build in Public)
š¬ CHAPTERS
00:00 Colinās career path
01:37 Omniās initial vision
05:07 From Looker to Omni
09:42 Why data leaders choose Omni
15:53 AI for Analysis (āChat with your dataā): what Omni did differently in its Semantic Layer to make it work
20:12 āBuilding in publicā at Omni
24:36 The evolution of data teams
30:58 The specifics of the French market
32:30 Colinās resource recommendations
33:13 What he likes most about data
š§ OTHER EPISODES
#1 - BlaBlaCar : Managing 50 Data People with Manu, VP Data
#2 - Deezer : How I restructured the Business Analytics team and made it more Business-Focused
#3 - Aircall: Adapting the Data Strategy to the slowing economic environment
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