Recruit Rockstars Podcast Episode 373: How Hes Scaling the Team 6x in One Year

Published: Dec. 27, 2020, 3:38 p.m.

Talk about a rocketship\u2026

Fishtown Analytics, named for Philly\u2019s hip namesake neighborhood, started this year with 16 employees. Next year, it\u2019ll have over 100.

I wanted to find out how CEO Tristan Handy is doing it.

He Co-Founded Fishtown, which created the open-source data engineering platform named dbt (\u201cdata build tool\u201d) that\u2019s used by thousands of data analysts & engineers. dbt enables the modern analytics workflow by organizing, cleansing, and aggregating data so that it\u2019s ready for analysis.

It\u2019s a big vision.

So, it\u2019s backed by tens of millions in Venture Capital by Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Amplify Partners.

In this 20-minute conversation, Tristan reveals how he\u2019s scaling the team 6x this year. And how you can do the same.