Published: Dec. 25, 2020, 8 p.m.
Show Notes
- (2:23) Barr discussed growing up in Israel and serving as a commander of the Data Analytics unit at the Israeli Air Force.
- (4:10) Barr reflected on her college experience at Stanford studying Math and Computational Science.
- (7:24) Barr walked over the two career lessons learned from being a Management Consultant at Bain and Company.
- (9:51) Barr reflected on her time as VP of Customer Operations at Gainsight, which offers enterprise solutions for Customer Success and Product teams. She helped build and scale a global team covering various functions such as business operations, customer success, professional services.
- (12:32) Barr unpacked the notion of data downtime, introduced in her blog post “The Rise of Data Downtime.”
- (17:25) Barr unveiled the four main steps in the data reliability maturity curve: reactive, proactive, automated, and scalable - as indicated in “Closing The Data Downtime Gap."
- (21:09) Barr shared the founding story behind Monte Carlo, whose mission is to accelerate the world’s adoption of data by reducing data downtime.
- (24:29) Barr explained the five pillars of data observability.
- (27:45) Barr unpacked the rise of data catalogs as a powerful tool for data governance, along with the three categories of data catalog solutions that data teams are adopting - as presented in “What We Got Wrong About Data Governance.”
- (31:32) Barr discussed the benefits of using Data Mesh - a type of data platform architecture that embraces data ubiquity in the enterprise by leveraging a domain-oriented, self-serve design.
- (37:28) Barr went over a framework that looks at the business functions and the nature of the work to score the impact and allocate the ROI of the data team - as proposed in "Measuring the ROI of Your Data Organization."
- (40:39) Barr shared five practices for designing a platform that maximizes data's value and impact inside an organization.
- (43:27) Barr reflected on the key decisions to get the first cohort of customers for Monte Carlo.
- (46:31) Barr shared valuable hiring lessons.
- (48:48) Barr went over helpful resources throughout her journey as a founder.
- (50:13) Barr dropped the final advice for founders on seeking the right investors.
- (51:18) Closing segment.
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