130: From Business Intelligence to Product Analytics and Beyond with Vijay Ganesan of NetSpring.io

The Data Stack Show

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Vijay’s background in data (2:09)
• The journey of founding ThoughtSpot and its impact in the world of BI (2:49)
• The maturation of BI (6:34)
• What is NetSpring.io? (8:21)
• Bridging the gap of BI and product analytics (14:41)
• Why data warehouses and not time-series databases? (19:58)
• The difficulty of using SQL in product analytics (28:35)
• Challenges in pricing models for product analytics and tooling (35:41)
• Combining analytics and attribution (42:00)
• What’s the next wave of product analytics? (47:28)
• Final thoughts and takeaways (53:41)

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