đŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ș #247 - Ex-VP of Product at Looker, he launched Omni, the challenger in Business Intelligence

January 21
34 mins

Episode Description

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 :


đŸ”„ Why Colin left his role as VP of Product at Looker to build a new BI tool

đŸ”„ The Omni vision: reconciling enterprise BI governance with the flexibity of Excel and SQL

đŸ”„ AI for Analysis (”chat with your data”): what Omni did differently in its Semantic Layer to make it work

đŸ”„ 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.).

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📚 RESOURCES


- Colin's LinkedIn

- Jason Lemkin’s SaaStr blog

- Dave Kellog’s Kellblog blog

- Demos on the Omni website (Build in Public)


🎬 CHAPTERS


00:00 Colin’s career path

01:37 Omni’s initial vision

05:07 From Looker to Omni

09:42 Why data leaders choose Omni

15:53 AI for Analysis (”Chat with your data”): what Omni did differently in its Semantic Layer to make it work

20:12 “Building in public” at Omni

24:36 The evolution of data teams

30:58 The specifics of the French market

32:30 Colin’s resource recommendations

33:13 What he likes most about data


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