Tristan Handy

Tristan Handy 24 Feb 2022

dbt Labs raised another round of funding– $222m at $4.2b valuation. Existing investor Altimeter led the round, with participation from Databricks, GV, Salesforce Ventures, and Snowflake. The raise will fuel our investment in building the next layer in the modern data stack.

Tristan Handy 10 Dec 2021

The metrics layer generated a lot of buzz at Coalesce, prompting some exciting and important conversations. In short: the dbt Server that will make metrics accessible will be source available. This will provide users control, while enabling us to build a sustainable business.

Christian Kleinerman | Tristan Handy 8 Dec 2021

Snowflake is at the forefront of changing the way modern data teams work with the Data Cloud. In this session, Christian Kleinerman, Snowflake's SVP of Product,

Martin Casado | Tristan Handy 6 Dec 2021

The modern data stack is the third generation of data analysis products to come to prominence since the 90's.

Tristan Handy 19 Aug 2021

With the DAG-in-the-IDE (now available to all dbt Cloud users), analytics engineers can seamlessly navigate the core structure of their dbt project with low friction and low cognitive load, making the entire development process more intuitive, pleasant, and efficient.

Tristan Handy 30 Jun 2021

Fishtown Analytics– now dbt Labs– was founded to bring analytics engineering to everyone. $150m in new funding will fuel the next phase of that journey.

Tristan Handy 11 Dec 2020

Watch Tristan Handy's talk replay from the Coalesce analytics engineering conference in 2020.

Tristan Handy 1 Dec 2020

My thoughts on where our space has been and where it might be going.

Tristan Handy 11 Nov 2020

Fishtown Analytics has raised $29.5m in a Series B financing. New investor Sequoia Capital led the round with existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Amplify Partners participating. Matt Miller of Sequoia joined our board.

Tristan Handy 15 Oct 2020

I originally wrote this as a part of our new analyst onboarding program back in June of 2017, shared with new analysts on their first day. It’s as true today as it was the day I wrote it, so I wanted to publish it more broadly. Maybe you’ll find it useful!

Tristan Handy 14 Oct 2020

Many folks may not know it, but George (Fivetran’s Co-Founder and CEO) and I go way back. We started out as mortal enemies when I was helping to launch Stitch while Fivetran was in its still-nascent days back in 2015 😄 Since I founded Fishtown Analytics in 2016, though, we’ve been close partners and have...

Tristan Handy 1 Oct 2020

Fishtown Analytics started as a consulting company that competed with other dbt service providers. We are now a venture backed software company and our business model has fundamentally changed. Our relationship with dbt service providers is now 100% partnership.

Tristan Handy 22 Sep 2020

Two amazing companies in the modern data stack–Fivetran and Census–have launched major integrations with dbt. Here's why I'm excited about this.

Tristan Handy 12 Aug 2020

A recent post, Dashboards are Dead, sparked a conversation about the future of data reporting.

Tristan Handy 2 Jul 2020

dbt is no longer a niche product and dbt Slack is no longer a community of misfits...we’ve gone mainstream, folks.

Tristan Handy 22 Apr 2020

A Letter to the Community

Tristan Handy 31 Jan 2020

The first global conference for analytics engineers

Tristan Handy 14 Jan 2020

The inability to bridge the chasm between IT and the business is the core dysfunction in modern data teams, and it’s also the biggest opportunity for progress.

Tristan Handy 24 Sep 2019

If your time is valuable, it should be important to you to operate with the highest possible leverage. This allows you to get more done with your fixed number of hours. Simple. Here's how analysts can operate with leverage.

Tristan Handy 17 Sep 2019

Data teams are successful when they build reserves of trust. One important way to build trust is by consistently delivering projects on time. Here are four questions we've found to be useful in helping us spot the potholes that derail analytics engineering projects.

Tristan Handy 2 Jul 2019

680 companies use dbt every week, 2100 members of dbt Slack, dbt Cloud processed 140k jobs from 200 accounts in June, and we're hosting regular dbt Meetups in 3 cities (NY, SF, London). What a year!

Tristan Handy 10 Jun 2019

Holy crap! Within the past week we’ve seen the acquisitions of the two biggest players in the modern BI landscape, Looker and Tableau.