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The Conventional Wisdom of Data
Josh JamesFounder and CEO, Domo
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One Hot July Night…
The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
Stephen Dubner,Freakonomics
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The Conventional Wisdom
Throw back a cold one for baby.
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The Conventional Wisdom
Hey doc, do you have a light?
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The Conventional Wisdom
A kid in Utah can’t become the National College Player of the Year.
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The Conventional Wisdom
Of course there’s a market for spray-on hair.
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The Conventional Wisdom
The best software companies are built in Silicon Valley.
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Omniture• #1 returning venture investment out of 1,008 VC
investments in 2004• #2 performing IPO of 2006• 2nd largest SaaS company after Salesforce.com • 5,000 customers and 2,000 employees• Sold Omniture to Adobe for $1.8 billion• Largest enterprise SaaS infrastructure with
50,000 servers; 1.25 trillion transactions per quarter
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THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOMTHE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM
The team with the best data analyst The team with the best data analyst wins.wins.
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THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOMTHE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM
Executives have access to the Executives have access to the important data.important data.
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THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOMTHE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM
Business intelligence works.Business intelligence works.
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