Team spotlights

Building data teams. Tips from Erik Bernhardsson’s journey at Spotify and beyond

Stefania Olafsdottir

March 4, 2022

Building data teams. Tips from Erik Bernhardsson’s journey at Spotify and beyond

On Episode 9 of The Right Track I interviewed Erik Bernhardsson, who built Spotify’s data team, Better.com’s tech team, and is now building something new. Discover his learnings from building data cultures, recruiting data journalists, and so much more.

Team spotlights

Habbi Helgadottir

August 26, 2020

Team Spotlight: Valtýr Örn Kjartansson

Valtýr or Valli, affectionately known as Valtarinn in the Reykjavik HQ (Icelandic for The Steam Roller, which only makes sense because it sounds similar to Valli, and is funny) is spending the summer of 2020 working on the logged-out Developer Experience for Avo.

How Amplitude Created a Self-Service Data Democracy According to Their Executive VP of Product

Team spotlights

Stefania Olafsdottir

August 11, 2020

How Amplitude Created a Self-Service Data Democracy According to Their Executive VP of Product

The age the data dictatorship is over, and its given rise to a promising new era self-service data democracies. We recently sat down with the VP of product marketing atone of the most data-democratic companies around: Justin Bauer from Amplitude.

Team spotlights

Habbi Helgadottir

August 11, 2020

Team Spotlight: Kelsey Fecho

Kelsey once got paid to do the work that Avo automates. When a former boss, Austin Hay, pointed her to Avo, she knew she'd have to join the team and amplify the work of Avo far and wide. Frustrated by inefficiencies in Fortune 500 companies' taxonomies, when she learned that it's not just costly for the team working on it and therefore the company – but that it's also bad for the planet, she knew she had do get to work. We at Avo are stoked to have a growth analytics expert promote how Avo solves exactly those challenges.