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In today's digital era, understanding and leveraging data can make or break your business. Join us in this illuminating episode as Tarush Aggarwal, the mastermind behind 5X, dives deep into the world of analytics and data infrastructure. Learn how businesses, from startups to large enterprises, can harness the power of data for unparalleled scalability and growth. Whether you're just dipping your toes into the vast ocean of data analytics or are looking to supercharge your existing efforts, Tarush offers invaluable insights that can transform your approach. Don't miss out on these game-changing strategies; your business's future could depend on it!"   Chapter Stamps:   [00:01:20] Introduction [00:02:43] Tarush's Startup Story [00:03:23] Explaining data space being fragmented [00:10:11] How any business can become a data company [00:13:03] Industries that Tarush works with [00:16:30] Real life example   Pullout Quotes:   “Our platform stitches all of this together. So, think of it as a modular platform." "We'll basically figure out based on your industry, use case, size, and budget which one makes sense for you." "Your platform evolves and changes as your business grows and changes." "So the entire journey from building out the first platform as the business grew and became bigger. What were the right tools needed at that point?" "Not having to switch between all of these tools on a daily basis as spend starts to become really high, not having to worry about optimizing spend because we're doing this very holistically." "The CEO can look at a dashboard, zoom into a particular geography, and see all of your different sales channels." "What's happening now is the next level is actually being able to join this with LLMs and being able to literally on Slack or teams being like, 'What was business like yesterday?'" "Not for everyone, but once you get to a certain size, it makes a huge difference in your business." "This will trickle down into every department and every department is able to just do things much faster, answer questions, come up with hypothesis themselves."   Socials:   Website: https://www.5x.co/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarushaggarwal/     ----more---- Notice to the Super Entrepreneurs community:   Before we part, remember to join our Private Facebook group, 'Mindset for Business Success.' Here we share mindset wisdom to elevate your life and business, ready for a transformative journey? This group is your key to unlocking potential and achieving business growth. Don't miss out on this incredible free resource. Join us in 'Mindset for Business Success' today!   https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindsetforbusinesssuccess/   Shahid's Links:   https://zez.am/officialshahiddurrani   ----more---- Affiliate Disclaimer: If you buy through one of the links provided, I may receive a commission (without any additional charge to you).   Disclaimer: Please be aware that the opinions and perspectives conveyed in this podcast are solely those of our guests and do not necessarily represent the views, ideologies, or principles of Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, its associated entities, or any organizations they represent or are affiliated with. We provide a platform for discussion and exploration, and the content of each episode is understood to be independent expressions from our guests, rather than a reflection of the beliefs held by the podcast or its hosts.  

A conversation about some of the most CRIMINALLY overlooked films of 2022 with the co-creator of the media review website SpoilerFreeReviews Tarush Mohanti. Check out the website at www.spoilerfreereviews.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-ejb/message

Jasleen and Tarush Agarwal, first generation immigrants from India who met and married in California, could not find a Paneer that wasn't highly processed or tasted anything close to what they enjoyed growing up. So Jasleen started making her own. A couple of years later, they started Sach Foods to bring organic, high protein, great tasting Paneer to the US market. Tarush joins us for a conversation about the role this singular cheese plays in Indian cuisine and vegetarian diets, the experience of starting a food business, and the marketing approach to introduce Sach Paneer to American consumers.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Cutting the Curd by becoming a member!Cutting the Curd is Powered by Simplecast.

Tarush Aggarwal has been a data strategist for 11 years and the founder of 5X. He helps entrepreneurs implement computer strategies in their businesses. He's worked with multiple brands, many different digital entrepreneurs, and with companies such as WeWork and Salesforce. Tarush built data teams for Fortune 500 companies and start-ups, helping them grow their teams from five to over 100 people. Data is the future for moving your business to the next level and Tarush is at the forefront. He started his career in software engineering in 2011 when data engineering was not a big thing yet, learned how Salesforce is built out and realized that it's not just about tracking, collecting, and storing but also measuring and analyzing different data points. Looking at how to attract more customers and make more money. Understanding how effective different channels are, double down on one, or get rid of the ones that aren't performing. Grasping how customers are using your product and knowing the different segments of customers. Personalizing your product in a way that you are targeting each segment and increasing conversion and then optimizing the business supply chain by automating some of your financial dashboards. His big tip is to just get started so the iterative process can be built on, it will take a few cycles to really understand the methodology. With better visibility comes asking better questions and adjusting your understanding of your business. Tarush believes it's better to focus on the priority of the business in the beginning. Know what the business goal is and then work backward. He goes on to say that the average company has over 10 different sources of data, and you need to centralize this in a single storage layer or data warehouse. The infrastructure piece is one of the biggest challenges for companies, knowing what tools you need to make sense of your data. 5X makes it very simple for you, you don't need to figure out integrations or maintenance. They set this platform up in a few minutes where you get one month and they bill at the end of the month. Then there are the people, data scientists, analysts, and engineers who build these capabilities for you, helping you figure out how to take action with your high-level business goals and personalize what success will look like.In this episode:[02:42] Being able to measure many different data points can become overwhelmingIt's about measuring and analyzing different data pointsHave a real plan, collect it, store it, analyze it and work on it[03:51] Looking at the three broad categories of why companies invest in data Attract more customers and make more moneyKnow your customers and the different segments of customers in a way that you are targeting each segment, and increasing conversionOptimize the business, and the supply chain, and automate some of your financial dashboards[06:19] A big tip is to just get started on building blocks of information in order to take actionWith better visibility comes asking better questions and adjusting your understanding of your businessExpand your knowledge and have more reports[08:27] How to avoid the initial overwhelm when you don't have a large data teamFocus on the priority of the business to attract more customers, find out how they're engaging with your productOptimize the business goal and then work backward[10:00] Tools you need in order to make sense of your dataCentralize this in a single storage layer or a data warehouse, clean it, structure and model it,...

Tarush Aggarwal, Founder and CEO of 5x, talks about how to transition to being a data company. Macro platforms like Facebook and Google are starting to lose their dominance. To smaller, niche providers. Ultimately, it's becoming harder for Google and Facebook to understand all of the different data sources and be as relevant as they used to be just a few years ago. Today, Tarush discusses how tech businesses will evolve in the next five years. Show NotesConnect With:Tarush Aggarwal: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterThe Rev Gen Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterI Hear Everything: IHearEverything.com // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tarush Aggarwal, Founder and CEO of 5x, talks about how to transition to being a data company. When most companies think about machine learning and data science, they're thinking about hiring their own data scientists to build their models. However, most companies haven't yet laid the foundation to gain real value from machine learning and don't understand their business model. Today, Tarush discusses transitioning into being a data company. Show NotesConnect With:Tarush Aggarwal: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterThe Rev Gen Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterI Hear Everything: IHearEverything.com // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Show Notes(02:24) Tarush shared his upbringing in India and his decision to study abroad in the US.(03:51) Tarush walked through his college experience studying Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.(06:24) Tarush described the non-existent state of data infrastructure at Salesforce when he joined as the first data engineer in 2012.(11:21) Tarush went over his contribution to the automation and benchmarking frameworks over his tenure at Salesforce.(15:50) Tarush recalled lessons learned from building and managing a data team as a Data Manager at Wyng.(19:54) Tarush explained how a data team can serve other functional units more efficiently.(22:37) Tarush elaborated on his decision to adopt Looker for Wyng's Business Intelligence needs.(26:30) Tarush talked about his decision to join WeWork as their Director of Data Engineering in 2016.(30:39) Tarush went over the origin and evolution of Marquez - WeWork's first open-source project around data lineage - during his time as the director of WeWork's Data Platform team.(33:49) Tarush highlighted the main challenges of building an internal data platform.(35:43) Tarush recalled his move to China to help establish WeWork's Asia operations and focus on the hyper-growing Chinese market.(39:01) Tarush shared the founding story of 5x during his sabbatical in 2020.(42:39) Tarush explained the industry's need for a managed data stack.(45:20) Tarush went over 5x's process of sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding data engineers who are pre-trained on the modern data stack.(48:37) Tarush talked about finding the right vendors that make up the modern data stack to partner with.(50:06) Tarush walked through his production process to put together a lot of good videos to explain what 5x does and raise awareness about the company.(51:52) Closing segment.Tarush's Contact InfoLinkedInTwitterMedium5x ResourcesWebsite | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube | Instagram5x Explained in 2 MinutesManaged Data PlatformOn-Demand Data Engineering ServicesIntegrationsMentioned ContentPeopleGeorge Fraser and Taylor Brown (Founders of Fivetran)Prukalpa Sankar (Co-Founder and CEO of Atlan)Frank Slootman (CEO and Chairman of Snowflake)BooksStealing Fire (by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal)The 5 AM Club (by Robin Sharma)About the showDatacast features long-form, in-depth conversations with practitioners and researchers in the data community to walk through their professional journeys and unpack the lessons learned along the way. I invite guests coming from a wide range of career paths — from scientists and analysts to founders and investors — to analyze the case for using data in the real world and extract their mental models (“the WHY and the HOW”) behind their pursuits. Hopefully, these conversations can serve as valuable tools for early-stage data professionals as they navigate their own careers in the exciting data universe.Datacast is produced and edited by James Le. Get in touch with feedback or guest suggestions by emailing khanhle.1013@gmail.com.Subscribe by searching for Datacast wherever you get podcasts, or click one of the links below:Listen on SpotifyListen on Apple PodcastsListen on Google PodcastsIf you're new, see the podcast homepage for the most recent episodes to listen to or browse the full guest list.

Tarush Aggarwal, Founder and CEO of 5x, talks about how to transition to being a data company. Macro platforms like Facebook and Google are starting to lose their dominance. To smaller, niche providers. Ultimately, it's becoming harder for Google and Facebook to understand all of the different data sources and be as relevant as they used to be just a few years ago. Today, Tarush discusses how tech businesses will evolve in the next five years. Show NotesConnect With:Tarush Aggarwal: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterThe Rev Gen Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterI Hear Everything: IHearEverything.com // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tarush Aggarwal, Founder and CEO of 5x, talks about how to transition to being a data company. When most companies think about machine learning and data science, they're thinking about hiring their own data scientists to build their models. However, most companies haven't yet laid the foundation to gain real value from machine learning and don't understand their business model. Today, Tarush discusses transitioning into being a data company. Show NotesConnect With:Tarush Aggarwal: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterThe Rev Gen Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterI Hear Everything: IHearEverything.com // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is the second part of my interview with this Amazing person. My guest today is Tarush Aggarwal. Tarush is a founder and CEO of 5xData, where he brings a data driven approach to companies in scale. Before that Tarush was part of Wework and was tasked to open Wework in China. Now Tarush lives in Bali, we met in one of the masterminds. What attracted me to Tarush in this mastermind was his passion for biohacking, Tarush has lots of  gadgets that help to improve his performance. So today we are going to talk about data, about biohacking, Networking, Meditation, and Life Automation LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarushaggarwal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tarushaggarwal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamtarush Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/5xData Website: https://5xdata.co/team Email: tarush@5xdata.co Want to sit down with Anatoly 1 on 1 ? Even though I keep saying I AM NOT A GURU, many of you ask to sit down and pick my brain. I have decided to do a 1h HELP calls. There are 2 purposes: 1st to support you in your journey and second also to be able to break even on the production of this podcast (each episode editing, marketing, guest research etc takes about $60 - $150 to produce). Now you can schedule 1h with me, and we can talk about launching products, hiring, product research, keywords, mindset, how I did an Ironman or anything at all. Link is here - https://calendly.com/anatolyspektor/anatoly-connsulting-1h  ANATOLY's TOOLS: Product Development: Helim10 - I use it for  Product Research, Keyword tracking and Listing Optimization . SPECIAL DEAL: Get 50% your first month or 10% every month: http://bit.ly/CORNERSIIH10  Pickfu - I use it for split testing all of my products and for validation ideas . SPECIAL DEAL: First split test 50% 0ff  https://www.pickfu.com/10mj Trademarking: Trademark Angels - For all my trademarking needs. SPECIAL: Mention Anatoly and 10MJ podcast and get 10% Off your trademark. HR: Fiverr -  I hire my 3dMockup person and images label designer here on Fiverr - http://bit.ly/10mjFIVERR Upwork - I hire people long term on Upwork - upwork.com  Loom.com - for creating SOP's, I record everything on Loom and give to my VA's Keepa.com - to track historical data such as prices ANATOLY's  3  Favorite Business Books: DotCom Secrets by Russel Brunson - I think this is a must read for every online entrepreneurs - http://bit.ly/10MJDotCom 4 hours work week by Tim Ferriss  - This book changed my life and made my become an entrepreneur - http://bit.ly/10MJ4WW The Greatest Salesman In The World  by Og Mandino - Old book but it goes to the core of selling -  http://bit.ly/10MJGREATSM   DISCLAIMER: Some Links are affiliate, it costs you nothing, but helps to keep this podcast on the float Have questions? Go to https://www.10millionjourney.com/ Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/10millionjourney/

Tarush Aggarwal is the Founder and CEO of 5X, the modern data stack as a managed service that enables companies to answer business questions without having to worry about building data infrastructure or bringing in the right data engineering team. Chad talks with Tarush about the modern data stack movement, choosing things that make sense on behalf of their customers, and building a team culture at a company with a fairly large time zone distribution. 5x (https://5x.co/) Follow 5x on Twitter (https://twitter.com/DataWith5x), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/DataWith5x), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/datawith5x/), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyOHdgLesV3FesXXl9-8V_w), or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/datawith5x). Follow Tarush on Twitter (https://twitter.com/tarush) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarushaggarwal/). Follow thoughtbot on Twitter (https://twitter.com/thoughtbot) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/150727/). Become a Sponsor (https://thoughtbot.com/sponsorship) of Giant Robots! Transcript: CHAD: This is the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots Podcast, where we explore the design, development, and business of great products. I'm your host, Chad Pytel. And with me today is Tarush Aggarwal, the Founder and CEO of 5X, the modern data stack as a managed service that enables companies to answer business questions without having to worry about building data infrastructure or bringing in the right data engineering team. Tarush, thank you for joining me. TARUSH: Chad, thank you so much for having me on the show. Really looking forward to being here and hopefully adding some value for your listeners. CHAD: Yes, I'm sure that they will. I think many companies are either thinking about how they build their data infrastructure or thinking about how they leverage data for their business now. So 5X provides a path for them to do that, and I'd love to dive in. How does 5X, like I said in the intro, enable companies to get started without having to worry about building this infrastructure themselves or this team themselves? TARUSH: Yeah, totally. It's a great question. Just to kind of zoom out for a quick second, the data space has been really hot for a few years now, and there's this area often called the modern data stack, which is really led by a few vendors mainly around this concept of the data warehouse, reporting tools, and modeling, and ingestion. And this is really a new area for the data space, which has really become popular. So you also have, you know, ten years ago, you had Hadoop and Spark, and all of these different data tools, which in general have become less popular, and the modern data stack movement is one of the big movements happening. So at a macro level, we have this new movement. If you zoom in, this movement happens to be one of the most fragmented movements. So what that means is for each different layer, you have different vendors. And so, even if you want to do something today as simple as building dashboards, you have to first ingest this data. In your average company, you've got [inaudible] at different sources. You need to put it in. You need to then store it, you need to model it, and then you can build a dashboard. CHAD: You also need to make all the different choices about which ones you're going to choose at every level. TARUSH: Exactly. At each of these levels, you have multiple billion-dollar companies today competing. So the thing about fragmentation of the space and, you know, I think data along with maybe DevOps and security are probably the most fragmented spaces. The thing about fragmented spaces is that they are great for extremely savvy customers; think of large tech companies who have 100% data teams. But for 90% of businesses, if you want to get value from data, it makes it much harder because you have to sign multiple contracts with these vendors, architecture, set up security. So what 5X very, very fundamentally is doing is we're business-focused. We allow you, you know, in a month or two, you better go to 5x.co and add your credit card, and you will have business analytics out of the box. And we can help you make some of these decisions as to what are the best vendors for your price points, for your use cases and give you an end-to-end platform so that you aren't worrying about signing these bills and sort of setting it up. You're focused on your business outcome and your business use cases. CHAD: Where did...I happen to know, but because I did my research for the episode. [laughs] But you were at WeWork leading data at WeWork, right? TARUSH: Yes. CHAD: So I imagine you faced this problem and saw this problem firsthand, right? TARUSH: You know, I've been fortunate that I've spent my career in the data space. So back in the day at Salesforce and now and most recently at WeWork. And companies like this, in general, are aggressively hiring and aggressively growing these teams. So at WeWork, we had 50 people working on stitching together the platform and finding the best vendors, and being involved in that. So at WeWork, we were really focused on building our own version of the platform. I think what's interesting is ever since I left and especially over the last 24 months, where the sort of startup space has become so active, I'm still getting pinged on LinkedIn like every day or two with companies looking to get started. And over a period of time, you see the trends that everyone is reinventing the wheel. What do I do first? What's the first use case? What infrastructure do I need? How do I set this up? So the idea of this really came less from WeWork, where we had the team and the expertise. It came more from the other 90% of the companies that don't have the resources that WeWork had, at least at that time. CHAD: So what do your customers of 5X typically look like then? Are there particular industries or data needs? Or on the tech side, on the development side, what do their development teams look like interacting with 5X? TARUSH: That's a great question. And again, at a macro level, data is a global phenomenon. It's not industry-specific. Now, different industries have different requirements. So obviously, as a consumer, what you need to collect, the tools and infrastructure you need are quite different from a B2B business. So there is this concept that for each vertical, what stack makes sense, and that's, again, something which we can do. Typically, our customers have found some sort of a product-market fit. They have a business, and now they're looking to go scale the business to get to either entering growth phase, or an optimization phase, or a profitability phase. And in each of these phases, data plays a vital role. So they are at this point where they know that they want to get value from it. They might even have a data team with 4,5,10 people. And they really might have figured out their first use cases and had the basic dashboards. And, inevitably, they come to this question of what now? What do we do now? So that's one large sort of vertical. And then the other one is they want to go do it. They want to go invest in data, but they have no idea how to do it. And in that case, they're looking at us not just the platform, but we also have this concept of on-demand talent. Today, we're interviewing thousands of data engineers a week. We get to hire the top 1%, and we pre-train them on different stacks. And then, companies can integrate these lead engineers at a weekly level or completely on-demand and use that to go build out the dashboards. We have never thought of replacing data teams for companies. But it's really interesting to see that some of the early-stage companies are using our platform and our on-demand talent to literally do end-to-end data as a service. CHAD: So at 5X, you're actually providing those team members, those consulting services? TARUSH: Yeah, so we look at it less from the consultant point of view, you know, a consultant typically you would go, and you have your statement of work, and that's going to be a three-month project, and it might be a fixed price. And sort of inevitably, they're looking to...they don't work with hundreds of thousands of companies, a few of them might, but in general, we work a little bit differently. So we have this concept of on-demand talent. So we have these engineers who we hire, and we pre-train them and essentially build software to basically allow people to add these engineers on top of the platform and sort of use them. So they work in one-week sprint cycles. It's fully on-demand. So you can have a group of engineers for one week and the next week not have that. And typically, consultants don't work in that way. And we don't really do the statements of work, and here's what's going to happen. These engineers are sort of put into these things what we call pods, and pods are three engineers and a product manager. And they operate on these one-week sprints. You can use this end-to-end team or these engineering pods to go build out your use cases, which is similar to what a consultant on the services model does, but we do it in more of a platform-first approach. CHAD: That's really interesting. I've had some guests on before where they talk about doing consulting or doing services on top of the recurring revenue platform that they've built or not doing it because it's not interesting to them or that their investors say like, "Don't get into that TNM business time and materials business. You want to focus on recurring revenue." How have you balanced that in your business? TARUSH: The reality is that it doesn't matter which vendor you are in the modern data stack space. You might be Snowflake, or you might be Tableau, or you might be Fivetran or DBT. These are just some of the popular ones. Each of these vendors is just one small part of the stack. And what that means is that they don't have a services model and [inaudible] investors happy. But in reality, it's because they don't have end-to-end stack exposure; you know, there's no company today which knows what their stack looks like. Snowflake doesn't know what their entire stack looks like. I mean, Snowflake [inaudible] its success in engagement because they just want [inaudible] And what 5X is is, you know, we've had to spin these stacks up from scratch for mid-market companies. You'll be able to map your stack. So you might have a few pieces. We can help you see what's missing. But again, because we have visibility end-to-end, having that services model, if you want to call it, makes a lot of sense because, ultimately, we're focused on adding business value. And no one's doing data for the sake of doing data. And no one is doing it to build a 50-person data team. They're doing it ultimately to enable the business. So given that we have this end-to-end scope, we look at our on-demand talent as a massive value-add of using the 5X platform is that you have this ability to get engineers end-to-end that are pre-trained on the platform. So we like it a lot. And we think it's a competitive advantage for us. CHAD: How opinionated is the 5X stack, the default stack? Can you make a lot of choices within it? Are you using lots of different things? You already mentioned Snowflake, Tableau. So it sounds like you're choosing the things that make sense on behalf of your customers. TARUSH: Yeah, so for launch, we're focused on the core BI stack, which is ingestion, storage, monitoring, reporting, and in this stack, also we have picked the best-in-class vendors so Fivetran, Snowflake, DBT, Preset. In some ways, the usual suspects which you think of as you're looking at the stack. Now our goal and really what we're building is this program called the Certified 5X Program, and that's for vendors. And that program allows us to integrate with different partners and do things like account provisioning, configuration, user management, our billing agreement, workflow setup. And as we integrate with more and more vendors, the idea is to really have a single form for the modern data stack. So, in ingestion, for now, we might be using Fivetran since they're the [inaudible], but the idea is we're also talking to Plausible, and Airbyte, and Stitch, and all of the other vendors. So at some point, we really kind of pick and choose between any of them. So the idea is, again, there could be a set of different stuff for a company, which is extremely budget-conscious, and if you're looking more for enterprise capability to use a different vendor in that same category. So ultimately, we're enabling customer freedom in the next few months. At launch, we'll have a smaller selection. But as we get into Q4 and as we get into the next year, we have the next 10-15 vendors lined up who are going to be part of the certified 5X program, and that allows us to add more and more optionality in terms of existing categories. And then, we also will focus on adding new categories like reverse ETL, or data lineage, or augmented analytics. CHAD: I love the idea of being focused for launch, saying these are the biggest things that we need to hit. How long did it take you to get to launch? When did you start working in earnest on 5X and get to a public launch? TARUSH: We've been working on this since last June. So we're 11 months old now. What we really did initially is go build relationships with these vendors. And the first thing we did is we started off more as a services business where we sort of built this automatic interview process where we were interviewing hundreds of engineers a week and adding these engineers and training them on the platform. We would go set up the platform for the customer in a semi-automatic manner. So we have been operational. We're probably working with 15-20 customers at this point, but we did it in a sort of semi-automated way. And over the last few months, as we understood more and more what their needs are, we are transitioning to a platform-first company instead of a services-first company. CHAD: So that means that you were able to be public and start getting customers fairly early on in your journey. It's only been 11 months since you started. And when did you get your first customer? TARUSH: 11 months ago. CHAD: [laughs] So at what point did you find investors and raise money and start to build a team? TARUSH: We've been fortunate enough that we were producing revenue on day one just looking at the services aspect of the business. So we needed a very tiny fundraise back in October, a very small amount. And now that we're getting closer to the platform launch, we might be announcing something soon. CHAD: What did you take money for if you were revenue-generating? Was there something specific that caused you to take it and that it was for? TARUSH: So if you kind of zoom out again and look at this whole concept of building out, you know, I think if we focused on services and focused on growing that part of the business organically, there's no real need for that. But the idea now is we're having a 20-person platform team, building out these integrations, building up software for even things like board management, hiring. The main task today is sort of engineering. 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Whether you're struggling to grow an agency, taking it to the next level and having growing pains, or a solo founder who just needs someone to talk to, in my 18 years of leading and growing thoughtbot, I've seen and learned from a lot of different situations, and I'd be happy to work with you. Learn more and sign up today at thoughtbot.com/agencyu. That's A-G-E-N-C-Y, the letter U. CHAD: So, when it comes to building a team, we're talking today, and you're in Bali. Is that where you spend most of your time now? TARUSH: I wish I could spend more time here. CHAD: [laughs] TARUSH: I'm pretty nomadic, which I really like. And I think we were born in COVID...a fun story; I got stuck in Bali for two years. I came here for vacation, and we were locked up. And it's not the worst place in the world to be stuck, and I felt very lucky that it was not somewhere else. So, in general, we started building the pilot while we were still remote. We have folks in 11 countries now. I spent six months of the year around America. That's where our clients are. About 80% of our business is from American companies today, and then I spend some time in India, where our engineering teams are aggressively growing in the Southeast Asian market. And 5X is a Singapore company. So we spend time in Singapore, and if I have some time, I come back to Bali. But in general, we are pretty nomadic. And I think as part of our culture, and how we attract people, one of our core values is what we call the hammock value where if I can build it or if you can build it while lying on a hammock in some part of the world, we're not interested in going back to an office. CHAD: With a fairly large time zone distribution of the team, how do you build a culture? How do people work together? Are people shifting their hours? Or do you build a culture of working asynchronously? TARUSH: We mostly work asynchronously. In general, the engineering teams are based out of India. So engineers who are working on the platform are in the same time zone. In terms of our pods, what's really cool is today, we hire in South America, we hire in Africa, we hire in Southeast Asia, so three distinct time zones. So you have Europe, you have the Americas, and you have the Asian time zone. And when we assemble these pods, and a pod has got three engineers and a technical project manager, we try and have at least two different time zones in a pod. So at least two of the engineers are in separate time zones, which means that for our customers, they have more around-the-clock support. They have more hours where they can get work done, which is great for productivity. So, what that means on our side is that we're really good at being able to communicate asynchronously. We have all this flexibility, and with that, in terms of accountability, the way we do it is we have daily updates. Again, it's asynchronous, so you can send that here's what you did, you know, [inaudible] by. At the end of the week, we do Loom videos really sharing what you've done. We sort focus a lot on like agenda -- CHAD: And Loom is an asynchronous video sharing. People can record videos and share it with everybody. Is that what Loom is? TARUSH: Yeah, sorry, I should mention. Loom is a great video platform that allows you to screen share, and it's just a really cool screen-sharing tool that we record these asynchronous videos and really ingraining it inside our culture. Everyone at 5X knows the importance of sending these updates and agenda before a call and summaries in a Zoom video. So that's how we are able to do it. CHAD: One of the things that we've not struggled with but dealt with at thoughtbot is we've started hiring all throughout the Americas, all throughout Europe, Middle East, and Africa. And we've got team members all over the place. And we want to treat people as employees and give them full benefits. And a lot of people want to work for a local entity and have employment laws and everything. But it's a challenge to do that. We don't necessarily want to set up entities in every country. So one strategy is contracting, another is to work with an international PEO or employer of record. How have you managed that? TARUSH: We use an international agency which allows us to hire in any country. I'm not sure the name of the platform we're using. Karan, our CFO, would know that. CHAD: [laughs] TARUSH: But it allows us on a macro level to be able to hire in all these countries as employees, you know, ask if you have the stock program. And it's also allowing us to give healthcare benefits and things like that, which we really want to have for everyone. And when it comes to the engineers on our network, at the moment, we're hiring them full-time as contractors, but again, we want to extend benefits to them and really, in some ways, give them that flexibility. Do you want to be inside a local jurisdiction where you can have more healthcare benefits and integrations with local governments, you know, employee programs and things like that? Or do you want to take advantage of our culture and be more nomadic? And these are exciting things which we're sort of figuring out now as we [inaudible] some economies of scale around, you know, having this [inaudible] CHAD: Yeah, that's great. And for what it's worth, that's the route that we've taken as well is to work with an international employer of record who actually employs people locally. And many people don't realize, like, you highlighted health benefits. A lot of countries have national health care. But it's really common, especially in white-collar or tech industry employment there, to augment that with supplemental insurance, which is not very expensive, but it is expected and oftentimes necessary to get the kind of coverage that you want to have. TARUSH: I think the world is changing. We're becoming remote-first as well. And the two areas which I believe it's going to affect the most is number one, employment and number two, education. It's just a no-brainer that more and more companies are going to emerge in this space, making it easier to hire remotely and provide benefits and, in some ways, build that operating system for remote entrepreneurs. So I'm not sure if the tools today are great. I think they solve the problem for now. But I expect there to be a lot of innovation in this space over the next few years. CHAD: Well, and I think that the pandemic has pushed that, accelerated that. There are companies now that existed before, but the scale at which they're able to operate now because so many companies have started to go remote and want to employ people everywhere; it's really driving that growth and investment in that area too. And as a result of that, there's going to be a lot of data [laughs] that these companies generate and need to get a handle on. So maybe they'll become customers of 5X, or maybe they already are. TARUSH: Yeah. If you look in the last ten years, I think the last ten years were all about digital marketing with social and sort of advertising, making it very obvious that if you don't have a web presence, if you don't care about your customers think, and if you don't find ways to attract customers, you're not going to exist. So ten years later and all those companies which didn't set up websites and they didn't figure out customer acquisition online probably don't exist anymore. In the next five years or in the next ten years, a lot of these will get a lot more sophisticated. And certainly, data comes in as a competitive advantage. So if you're not focusing on how a customer is using your product and how you personalize and being able to compare the way of spending money in terms of your lead acquisition and really, really optimize at it, what you'll face is that it will become difficult to compete because your competition is getting more and more sophisticated. So a lot of the investment in this is really predicated on becoming more efficient at these core groups of things like go-to-market strategy, engagement, optimizing internal operations as a way to find efficiencies which is typically what technology has enabled. CHAD: Especially small businesses or businesses that are just getting started, if you don't have experience with that, it can feel really overwhelming. And we talked about how 5X by coming to the table with a stack, with a team that can help do that, that's great. And it helps solve that problem. Say that I'm a founder or a CEO, maybe non-technical, and I really am just getting started, but I have a big need; how do I engage with 5X? What's the best way to think about that? And are there things that I might do as a founder that you would recommend, hey, I recognize you can't do everything, but do this, and you'll avoid some pain later on. TARUSH: We have some customers today who use us pre-product. They don't have a product. They don't have any customers. They have no data. But they use us because when they launch, they want to have the right tracking and visibility and reports and metrics. So I would have never thought someone that [inaudible] 5X. But it kind of makes sense that you want to have the right [inaudible] knowledge. You have pros and cons. I think the pros of it is instilling the data culture from day one. Data acts as a bridge between engineering and the business, Chad. It just connects the products from like the business goals. So there is an upside in bringing this on earlier on and building that and instilling that into your culture. I think the flip side of it is that if you don't have product-market fit, if you're shooting darts and seeing what works. And in general, companies at that point are running more on intuition and trying different things to see what sticks. And having systems in place at that scale, very frankly, could also be unnecessary. And at that point, if you're spending $100, you probably want to spend 80-90 of them on bringing out your product and the design that you've got. And I think they'll want to sign to be able to acquire customers, and that sort of shifts then you see the data spending increase. So again, we're obviously happy to help, and our technical product managers have a lot of experience. They're the ones who have been data leaders that are growing companies and businesses like Uber, WeWork, Alibaba, top tech companies. They've already been data team members, so they've always been part of that growth. So they're good people, the on-demand talent. You have expertise over there from someone who's seen this before. And a few of our early-stage companies leverage these people more and more, but the flipside of it is focusing on actually building a product first. CHAD: I love that. I think that that's great advice. And so I assume that there are people who come and to your team or you start talking with them, and you say, "You're not ready for us yet." TARUSH: Yeah, we sort of have done that. We have told folks, you know, Google this, this, and this, and once you have this in place and you're about to go to market, that's the right time to come engage. But at this point, honestly, it might not be the best time for you to start thinking about [inaudible] CHAD: Focus on improving your user experience, getting new users, making the best product you can. That's really great advice. TARUSH: On the flip side of that, I think the problem, not the problem, I don't know if it's the word. I think the mistake a lot of companies make is that they actually get into it too late. The typical fallacy is that the founders are sitting in this gold mine of data. We're just going to have a data scientist come, and he or she is going to start generating all these insights, and we're going to be a data-driven company. And the reality of everything in life is that things take time. You can have the stack from day one, and you can have amazing engineers. But it takes time for you to really understand what's happening in your business. And initially, your data model that's sort of changing because the understanding of the business is changing. Visibility in your data leads to asking better questions. And with asking better questions, you start changing the mental models of what's happening. It takes three iterations before your data model starts to stabilize. And what that means very, very often is that the founder is expecting in three months that the data is going to have a positive ROI and the output the business is getting from the data team is going to be positive. And that's not really how it works. It takes six to nine months. You'd have reporting in the first month and the first two months. But as you move from reporting to visibility and to actually optimization and using that data as an insight, we think of that as a three-quarter project. So number one, I think companies don't know that, and they expect that it happens much sooner. And number two is also the mindset around I'm looking at data to provide positive ROI within a small duration, which is also, in reality, not how it is. CHAD: Tarush, that's really great advice, and I hope people take it to heart. If folks want to get in touch with you or follow along with you or learn more about 5X, where are all the places that they can do that? TARUSH: So our website is 5x.co. Again, that's 5x.co. You can reach out to me at tarush@5x.co. We're also doing a lot of stuff on YouTube. We're doing a lot of podcasts to educate on the data space. We make weekly videos on different topics on our YouTube channel. I'm sure you can just search for 5X. That's another great way to engage with us. CHAD: Wonderful. You can subscribe to this show and find notes for this episode along with a complete transcript at giantrobots.fm. If you have questions or comments, email us at hosts@giantrobots.fm. And you can find me on Twitter at @cpytel. This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot and produced and edited by Mandy Moore. Thanks so much for listening and see you next time. ANNOUNCER: This podcast was brought to you by thoughtbot. thoughtbot is your expert design and development partner. Let's make your product and team a success. Special Guest: Tarush Aggarwal.

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Tarush Aggarwal is the Founder and CEO of 5x, which offers data reporting as a service. 5x allows users to make data-driven decisions faster, which are necessary to succeed. Tarush is also one of the leading experts in leveraging data for exponential growth in the world! Previously, as the Head of Data at WeWork, Tarush scaled the system to support 12k employees and 100 data team members. Tarush was also the first data engineer at Salesforce in 2011. What you will learn How Tarush transitioned from a Data Engineer at WeWork to building his own company How Tarush discovered his love for data How companies can build and use data analytics in an efficient way Modern Data Stack: one of the biggest movements in the data space How 5x can help companies implement data strategies The 3 main things companies care about when collecting data How your company can become more data-driven

On today's show, we discuss how to effectively make data-driven decisions.Tarush Agarwal is one of the leading experts in leveraging data for exponential growth, with over ten years of experience in the field. After graduating with a degree in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2011, he became the first data engineer on the analytics team at Salesforce.com. Data was in its infancy, and the log metric framework which Tarush built was critical in allowing Salesforce to analyse data across customers and provide benchmarks across different industries and verticalsMost recently Tarush led Data for WeWork, one of the fastest growing companies in the world. WeWork leveraged data to be able to grow 10x in 3 years, supporting a footprint of 800+ offices in 120+ cities in 23+ countries with over 12,000 employees. Tarush scaled the data org from 2 to 100+ and their unique approach allowed them to stay lean while supporting every functional area of the business. In 2019 he moved to China to help establish WeWork's Asia operations and focus on the hyper growing Chinese market.Key Takeaways:What questions should companies be asking themselves? Firstly, do we have the right infrastructures in place in order to get the data to answer these questions?Where are customers coming from?What are we doing to engage and retain them?How do we start to pay attention to the way our business operates and increase operational efficiency and ultimately profit?How do you decide what data to "serve up" for a decision-maker in the company?Understand what is required for that level of the organization. Salespeople have different objectives from CEOs.Identify the questions they are trying to answer, then work backward from there.What is the data we need? Are we tracking it? If not, how do we track it? How do we then ingest it, model it, structure it, and build out reporting? How do we "think big" in the beginning stages to keep from building too small of a foundation?Separate the data systems from the business systems. There will be many business systems, and the business needs this flexibility. The key is to pull data from anywhere to a central location and then be able to join it, stitch it, and be able to answer the questions the business needs answered.When should a small company consider investing in more technology to integrate the data?Once you start having multiple channels, vendors, or departments, centralizing the data becomes very important for better visibility.What are your top tips for companies wanting to be more data-driven? Start early. It will take time to perfect the system. Getting visibility leads to asking better questions, so it will be a process to get to the best solution.Think about scaling from the start. Bring in the right equipment day one. It is difficult to build on a poor foundation later.Utilizing external solutions can save a lot of time and money, rather than trying to figure it all out on your own.Connect with Tarush Agarwal:Website: https://5x.co/Email: hello@5x.coLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datawith5xTwitter: https://twitter.com/DataWith5xYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyOHdgLesV3FesXXl9-8V_wInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/datawith5x/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DataWith5x

In this conversation with Shiv, Tarush Aggarwal, CEO at 5X, shares his experience and views on:Starting as a software engineer and realizing that his interest lay in the bigger pictureWorking on a benchmarking application that later became an analytics themeDiscovering the big picture from a lot of detailed dataHow zooming in and out of data lets one discover insightsData engineering being the bridge between business and the engineering teamHandling unstructured data and data warehousing based on SQLUnstructured data still having some niche applicationsHaving the contextual information on top of dataPredictive analytics is like building a skyscraperIt takes time to understand the company's data to start having effective modelsHis trigger moment to turn entrepreneur: being in Bali on the first day of covidWhy 5X as the name for his company - inspired by Robin SharmaAn unfamiliar familiar feeling - turning CEOWorking with people and emotions as well as data without emotionsTips for people consuming data based solutionsWhy one should focus on data as a key strategy for any companyHis tips for people considering a career in data : where the playbook is just getting started to be written : #the moderndatastackTarush is one of the leading experts in leveraging data for exponential growth, with over ten years of experience in the field.After graduating with a degree in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2011, he became the first data engineer on the analytics team at Salesforce.com. Data was in its infancy, and the log metric framework which Tarush built was critical in allowing Salesforce to analyze data across customers and provide benchmarks across different industries and verticals.Most recently Tarush led Data for WeWork. WeWork leveraged data to be able to grow 10x in 3 years, supporting a footprint of 800+ offices in 120+ cities in 23+ countries with over 12,000 employees, making WeWork one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. Tarush scaled the data org from 2 to 100+ and their unique approach allowed them to stay lean while supporting every functional area of the business. In 2019 he moved to China to help establish WeWork's Asia operations and focus on the hyper-growing Chinese market.Social handles & reachout email - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyOHdgLesV3FesXXl9-8V_wTwitter - https://twitter.com/DataWith5xInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/datawith5x/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/DataWith5xLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/datawith5xEmail - hello@5x.co

Summary:Tarush Aggarwal has been at the forefront of HR data analytics since it gained recognition in 2011. He was Salesforce Analytics Team's first data engineer and, later, got the opportunity to build up an international data team at WeWork that scaled up to over 100 people from its initial 5. He then moved to Shanghai and did it all again for our rapidly growing business in China. Along the way, he's learned important lessons from personal experience on the best ways to grow a data team.In this episode, Tarush talks about how HR teams can get more out of their data by leveraging infrastructure. Chapters:[0:00 - 5:29] IntroductionWelcome, Tarush!Today's Topic: Using HR Infrastructure to Drive Value[5:30 - 10:20] What Prevents Companies From Developing In-house HR Capabilities?Smaller HR data teams have a harder time leveraging the mature technology use by larger teamsWhen HR data needs to become business data[10:21 - 19:54] Why Doesn't a One-Size-Fits-All Solution Work For Everyone?When one-size-fits-all misses the markWhy one-size-fits-all might make sense for teams new to HR data[19:55 - 25:19] Will Mergers and Acquisitions Lead To One-Size-Fits-All Being the Only Solution?How some vendors offer flexibility in a hybrid-style solutionHow vendors could improve HR infrastructure to fix complicated procedures[25:20 - 27:24] Final Thoughts & ClosingWhat role will exciting new features play for vendors in the future?Thanks for listening!Quotes:“A data team with a hundred people acts very differently from a data team with 3, 4, or 5 people . . . So unfortunately, what we see is that a lot of [smaller] HR analytics team don't really get to leverage the more mature technology of their sister, larger data teams.”“In reality, [HR analytics solutions of the future] will probably be hybrid, where you get 60-70% of what you want out of the box and [you can customize] the remaining 30-40%.”Contact:LinkedInProduction by Affogato Media

HIGHLIGHTS12 data layers explained and 5x's service to stitch them togetherCase studies of companies improving their data efficienciesAI in future sales: Use AI to come up with recommendationsAI and jobs: Data scientists will be in high demandQUOTESTarush: "The first 5 layers of the stack are kind of pretty well-understood and, at that point, that's kind of verticalized but more sort of horizontal. But in terms of the other capabilities which the modern data stack can start to provide, we sort of get into data lineage and data catalog."Tarush: "We take the modern data stack and stitch together and provide it as a service. So as a business, you're kind of good to go on day 1, you don't need to worry about signing enterprise contracts or figuring out how it all plays together."Tarush: "A lot of the core problems before AI need to be commoditized, what are some of those problems, right? A big part of that problem is the infrastructure of the data platform required to get to a point where you have stable, clean, highly-modeled data which is, again, the sort of 5 layers."Learn more about Tarush and connect with him in the links below:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarushaggarwal/Website: https://5x.co/Email: hello@5x.co

Tarush Aggarwal is the Founder and CEO of 5x, which offers data reporting as a service, so users can make data-driven decisions faster, which are necessary to succeed. Tarush is also one of the leading experts in leveraging data for exponential growth in the world!Previously, as the Head of Data at WeWork, Tarush scaled the system to support 12k employees, as well as 100 data team members. Tarush was also the first data engineer at Salesforce in 2011.Michael and Tarush have a great episode talking about data - all things data. How to leverage it, the struggles companies have accessing it and the all new data as a service offering of 5x. What good is data if you can't benefit from it - I am so excited to speak with Tarush who shows why data is the cloud both for hosting and as a service is a game changer.#data #dataasaservice #5x 

Tarush Aggarwal is the Founder and CEO of 5x, which offers data reporting as a service, so users can make data-driven decisions faster, which are necessary to succeed.  Tarush is also one of the leading experts in leveraging data for exponential growth in the world! Previously, as the Head of Data at WeWork, Tarush scaled the system to support 12k employees, as well as 100 data team members. Tarush was also the first data engineer at Salesforce in 2011. Ishu Singh's Website: Ishu Singh Starting to Know: Starting to Know

Today's guest on the Mads Singers Management Podcast is Tarush Aggarwal. Tarush was a software engineer who quickly realized that ranking high on Google was not just for him because no one talked about data. Tarush saw this opportunity and was able to work with a manager who showed him the ropes. This led him to Salesforce and put data engineering on the map. He also led a team for WeWork that supported 1500 employees. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tarush found himself on a 10-day vacation in Bali, Indonesia, and while the world was going on lockdown, Tarush founded 5x.According to Tarush, data is on the rise, and it is not a trend that will fade away and shape the future of the world. But what makes data exciting is its many uses, from Facebook ads, digital marketing, affiliate marketing, Google ads, and even compiling data on your customers and employees to automate business processes and make things easier for everyone. Once we focus on the data gathered, we can ask better questions to improve our current operations, implement better ones, or even replace them with something much better to help make our business better.Data can be both intuitive and data-driven; some may be more inclined with their intuition. At the same time, some may be inclined to see the technical side of data. Still, regardless of where you belong in the spectrum, it's important to note that you shouldn't go to the extremes, especially when your vision, goals, and even niche do not have firm foundations.Data is here to stay for the long run, although we may not see and feel it immediately, and data will continue to evolve to serve both businesses, companies, and the people. Although there are tools out there, and more new tools and software will emerge in the coming months or years, data will always be a people-focused business.Key Learning Points: Tarush says that spending time in the weeds and being in different levels allowed him to see how the sauce was being made, allowing him to stress-test everything, which allowed 5x to do it today. - 04:33 Tarush says that data application is helpful for Facebook ads, affiliate marketing, digital marketing, and even for customers. - 07:22 Understanding your customer lifetime value, how it's made up, and even why it's critical because this is one of the most significant issues Mads sees in small businesses, especially when they start investing in ads or marketing.- 09:26 Tarush says that while everyone uses data in different ways they like, once we give it our full attention, it is only then that we can ask better questions and improve our processes.- 10:46 Mads says it's essential to break down data when investing in different segments, so you are not simply focusing on one number or platform.- 12:40 Mads continues that while most companies have a lot of data, they must look at the correct data at the right time. - 16:00 Tarush says that data can be both intuitive and data-driven. However, depending on where you fall on that spectrum, we must keep in mind and be aware not to go to the extremes but instead use the data we have as our guide to making decisions rather than using it blindly.. - 20:03 Mads stresses that businesses should review their vision, concept, and niche, especially when it's not very good - 21:03 When asked about his 80/20, Tarush answers that 80% will always be your most challenging client.- 23:02 With the rise and popularity of data, Tarush says that businesses and companies will need to eventually treat data differently and learn how to use it effectively.- 26:00 Connect with Tarush Aggarwal:EmailLinkedInWebsiteTwitterInstagramCompany TwitterCompany LinkedInData Engineering Podcast10 Million Journey PodcastData Science Conversations Podcast

*** Hire a top-notch accountant for your business today, by visiting:   https://accountanthires.com/michael/.   *** Tarush Aggarwal is the Founder and CEO of 5x (https://5x.company/), which offers data reporting as a service, so users can make data-driven decisions faster than are necessary to succeed. Tarush is also one of the leading experts in leveraging data for exponential growth in the world! Previously, as the Head of Data at WeWork, Tarush scaled the system to support 12k employees, as well as 100 data team members. Tarush was also the first data engineer at Salesforce in 2011. Social Media Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarushaggarwal/

Summary: In episode 5 of this season of the Propcast, Louisa is joined by Tarush Aggarwal, Founder and CEO of 5x. He is one of the leading experts in leveraging data for exponential growth and has over 10 years of experience in the field. In this episode Louisa and Tarush talk about his journey through data and his involvement in WeWork that allowed the business to grow 10x in 3 years.  Tarush shares how to convert data into dollars, and how his business does exactly that. They discussed the data trends that he has seen over the years and Tarush gives some tips on how to get into the data space and make it a serious career path.  Companies Mentioned: 5x Salesforce WeWork  Shout Outs: Nelson Lau, CEO at PropertyQuants   Adam Neumann, Co-Founder of WeWork    Key Insights From This Episode:    What is super interesting about the data revolution is that we are still living through it. - Tarush Growth is something that takes time. You can grow really quickly, but at some point, it becomes unsustainable. - Tarush If you are serious about adding business value by being data-driven, you have to develop a data stack, and you are going to have to store it, structure it and clean it. - Tarush We saw a 46% increase in people being hired in data roles... I think this year it is going to increase even more.  - Louisa In today's age data is no longer a nice to have, it's an essential part of any company's business proposition. - Tarush It is easy to have poor company values. - Tarush It's important to have values and write them down, but what are you doing to action them? - Tarush I think sequel is probably the most important skill in any of the data professions - Tarush   About Our Guests: Tarush Aggarwal  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarushaggarwal/  Tarush is one of the leading experts in leveraging data for exponential growth, with over ten years of experience in the field.  After graduating with a degree in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2011, he became the first data engineer on the analytics team at Salesforce.com. Data was in its infancy, and the log metric framework which Tarush built was critical in allowing Salesforce to analyse data across customers and provide benchmarks across different industries and verticals. Most recently Tarush led Data for WeWork, one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. WeWork leveraged data to be able to grow 10x in 3 years, supporting a  footprint of 800+ offices in 120+ cities in 23+ countries with over 12,000 employees. Tarush scaled the data org from 2 to 100+ and their unique approach allowed them to stay lean while supporting every functional area of the business. In 2019 he moved to China to help establish WeWork's Asia operations and focus on the hyper-growing Chinese market. About 5x https://5x.co/ The biggest challenge for most businesses is converting data into dollars. Businesses lack the expertise to build the data engine (infrastructure, data collection, self-service reporting) That's why we created 5x. To enable companies to answer business questions, without having to worry about building data infrastructure or bringing in the right team.  Because of our prefabricated data blocks & network of remote data engineers, we deliver data reporting faster, cheaper, and of higher quality, than anyone else in the industry.  About Our Host Louisa Dickins https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisa-dickins-ab065392/ Louisa started her career in property working at a well-known estate agency in London. Realising her people skills, she moved over to Lloyd May to pursue a career in recruitment. She now is a Director at LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven by PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees their 5 core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE and provides a constructive recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real estate. Louisa is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech Association (UKPA). About LMRE www.lmre.tech LMRE believe there is a better way to recruit. LMRE focus on a more comprehensive, client led focus delivering exceptional talent to the place at the time. They are passionate about the industry and passionate about people's careers. LMRE spend time with each client to become and an extension of the business, and their transparency and core values help them grow with the sector. LMRE simplify recruitment and innovate with our clients and evolve the people driven, PropTech community. Timestamps [2:35] Can you talk us through your career? You started off at Salesforce, then went on to be the Global Head of Data at WeWork, you have founded and grown your own business. How did you scale the data from two to a hundred plus at WeWork and how did you get Adam to prioritise this as a business need? We are still living through the data revolution. 10 years ago, at Salesforce, no one in the valley had a data team. 10 years later at WeWork, it was completely different, we had an established modern data stack. When I joined, WeWork had about 100 offices and a few years later we had close to a thousand. The business was growing so quickly and we had to scale the team as well. It was slightly unsustainable. [6:10] What does your business do and how does it come together with the modern data stack? How does it drive more value for customers and can you give an example of who one of your customers might be.  Businesses find it difficult to extract value from data because startups today have 10-12 different sources of data. Hiring an ad hoc analyst who builds a few dashboards isn't good enough anymore, it doesn't lead to long-term business value.  If you are serious about adding business value by being data-driven, you have to develop a data stack and you are going to have to store it, structure it and clean it.  5x stitches together the data stack with all the best-in-class vendors, across data collection and Deshon storage modelling and reporting.  We interview and hire engineers and we get to hire the top 1% of these engineers. We can pre-train these engineers on the platform.  5x is faster, cheaper and higher quality. Our sweet spot is a company that has found some success and then they need to go scale the business and they need to go deploy an entire data comprehensive strategy and do so fairly quickly.  [11:10] You are 8 months old and you've already raised, are about to raise again and you have over 50 employees. What's the secret to maintaining a good culture? A lot of it comes from the Founder.   It is easy to have poor company values.  It's important to have values and write them down, but what are you doing to action them? [14:45] Are there any macro trends that you have seen in the 10 years that you have been working in data and what does it mean for companies?  10 years ago, no one was doing digital marketing and no one had a website for their business and Google came along and said that if you don't have an online presence, you are not going to exist.  In the next 10 years there will be the evolution of digital marketing and digital marketing will go more mainstream and that will evolve into data. In very early rounds, venture capitals are asking what's your data strategy.  [17:50] You started off as data engineer, now you are a Founder and you have started a new profession. How can people learn more about it?  We are early in the space and when I started the playbook of data hadn't yet been written.  Ramping up in your tech skills, SQL is really important. Something like Python or any analysis language are skills that are extremely valuable. Understanding the best practises and being able to shadow a company. Doing it well and spending time to really understand the best practises and the trends. [22:55] The ‘LMRE' part, Louisa asks the guests to talk about:   Lessons learned in your career When you look at what data it's adding visibility organisation that's kind of one side of the spectrum and on the other side is being in flow, extremely creative and intuitive. We tend to be either or.  Unless you actively try you're just going to move more and more on that spectrum. If you're a data-driven person then likely you're just going to make everything in your life even more data-driven. Moving more towards the middle is something that will serve everyone.  Mention a person, product or service My assistant, Tricia To-Do-List and Google Calendar save my life on a daily basis  Rewarding parts of working in the space:  Impact is a huge one. Being able to leverage data for growth is not something which is trivial.    Being able to take something, spend time in it and work towards helping commoditise it.    What are you most Excited about for the future of the space?:     The evolution is going to continue. In the next few years, we're starting to get more into decision-making, recommendations and insights.  Launch Your Own Podcast Kopus.com is the leading podcast production and strategic content company for brands, organisations, institutions, individuals, and entrepreneurs. Our team sets you up with the right strategy, equipment, training, and guidance and content to ensure you sound amazing while speaking to your niche audience and networking with your perfect clients. 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Tarush Aggarwal is our guest this week, and we have a fantastic conversation about democratizing data reporting, and how even non-data-focused businesses need to have deep reporting capabilities to be competitive. Regardless of your role or industry, this is an episode worth checking out! Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ehl4heGovas Save 20% on your first order at the DATAVERSITY Training Center with promo code “AlgminDL” – https://training.dataversity.net/?utm_source=algmindl_res Connect with the host, Anthony J. Algmin, on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyjalgmin Become a Data Leader – https://algmin.com About Tarush Aggarwal: Tarush is the Founder and CEO of 5x, which offers data reporting as a service, so users can make data-driven decisions faster, which are necessary to succeed. Tarush is also one of the leading experts in leveraging data for exponential growth in the world! Previously, as the Head of Data at WeWork, Tarush scaled the system to support 12k employees, as well as 100 data team members. Tarush was also the first data engineer at Salesforce in 2011. 5x – https://5x.company/ Episode Transcript: 100:00:05,905 –> 00:00:10,226anthony: Welcome to the Data Leadership Lessons podcast. I’m your host, Anthony J. Algmin 200:00:10,393 –> 00:00:13,663anthony: Data is everywhere in our businesses and it takes leadership to make the most of it. 300:00:13,747 –> 00:00:17,200anthony: We bring you the people stories and lessons to help you become a data leader. Our 400:00:17,200 –> 00:00:19,419anthony: Today on data leadership lessons, we welcome 500:00:19,652 –> 00:00:24,691anthony: Tarush Aggarwal. Tarush is the founder and CEO of 5x, which offers data reporting 600:00:24,691 –> 00:00:29,095anthony: as service so users can make data driven decisions faster, which are necessary to 700:00:29,179 –> 00:00:29,596anthony: succeed previously as the head of previously, as the head of data at We work. 800:00:29,596 –> 00:00:31,448anthony: succeed previously as the head of previously, as the head of data at We work. 900:00:31,681 –> 00:00:35,452anthony: Teruch scaled the system to support twelve thousand employees as well as a hundred 1000:00:35,685 –> 00:00:39,789anthony: data team members. Tarush was also the first data engineer at Sales force in two 1100:00:39,789 –> 00:00:39,906anthony: data team members. Tarush was also the first data engineer at Sales force in two 1200:00:39,973 –> 00:00:43,660anthony: thousand and eleven to reach, as one of the world’s leading experts in leveraging 1300:00:43,810 –> 00:00:46,546anthony: data for exponential growth. Jewish, welcome to the show. 1400:00:47,213 –> 00:00:49,749

This is my third live Bali podcast, and My guest today is Tarush Aggarwal. Tarush is a founder and CEO of 5xData, where he brings a data driven approach to companies in scale. Before that Tarush was part of Wework and was tasked to open Wework in China. Now Tarush lives in Bali, we met in one of the masterminds. What attracted me to Tarush in this mastermind was his passion for biohacking, Tarush has lots of  gadgets that help to improve his performance. So today we are going to talk about data, about biohacking and of course dig deep into Tarushe’s entrepreneurial journey.   Resources mentioned in this episode: Books that were mentioned in this episode: Dave Aprey Books: https://daveasprey.com/ Books Tarush Recommends: The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life by Robin Sharma https://www.amazon.com/AM-Club-Morning-Elevate-Life/dp/1443456624?tag=10mj-20 Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work by Steven Kotler https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Fire-Maverick-Scientists-Revolutionizing/dp/0062429655?tag=10mj-20 Podcasts Tarush Recommends: Ben Greenfield - https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/podcast/ James Clear - https://jamesclear.com/podcast Farnam Street - https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/ Connect with Tarush: LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarushaggarwal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tarushaggarwal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamtarush Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/5xData Website: https://5xdata.co/team Email: tarush@5xdata.co Want to sit down with Anatoly 1 on 1 ? Even though I keep saying I AM NOT A GURU, many of you ask to sit down and pick my brain. I have decided to do a 1h HELP calls. There are 2 purposes: 1st to support you in your journey and second also to be able to break even on the production of this podcast (each episode editing, marketing, guest research etc takes about $60 - $150 to produce). Now you can schedule 1h with me, and we can talk about launching products, hiring, product research, keywords, mindset, how I did an Ironman or anything at all. Link is here - https://calendly.com/anatolyspektor/anatoly-connsulting-1h  ANATOLY’s TOOLS: Product Development: Helim10 - I use it for  Product Research, Keyword tracking and Listing Optimization . SPECIAL DEAL: Get 50% your first month or 10% every month: http://bit.ly/CORNERSIIH10  Pickfu - I use it for split testing all of my products and for validation ideas . SPECIAL DEAL: First split test 50% 0ff  https://www.pickfu.com/10mj Trademarking: Trademark Angels - For all my trademarking needs. SPECIAL: Mention Anatoly and 10MJ podcast and get 10% Off your trademark. HR: Fiverr -  I hire my 3dMockup person and images label designer here on Fiverr - http://bit.ly/10mjFIVERR Upwork - I hire people long term on Upwork - upwork.com  Loom.com - for creating SOP’s, I record everything on Loom and give to my VA’s Keepa.com - to track historical data such as prices ANATOLY’s  3  Favorite Business Books: DotCom Secrets by Russel Brunson - I think this is a must read for every online entrepreneurs - http://bit.ly/10MJDotCom 4 hours work week by Tim Ferriss  - This book changed my life and made my become an entrepreneur - http://bit.ly/10MJ4WW The Greatest Salesman In The World  by Og Mandino - Old book but it goes to the core of selling -  http://bit.ly/10MJGREATSM   DISCLAIMER: Some Links are affiliate, it costs you nothing, but helps to keep this podcast on the float Have questions? Go to https://www.10millionjourney.com/ Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/10millionjourney/

In this episode, we speak with Tarush Aggarwal. Tarush is the founder of 5xdata, where he helps companies build a strong data foundation with self-service BI to enable the business. Prior to starting 5xData he was one of the first data engineers on the analytics team Salesforce and helped scale the data team WeWork from 5 to 100+.Top 3 Value Bombs: Ingest all your raw data into a central location and build your data models on top of that. When organizations are first building out a data platform, the first item they should focus on is building out a self-service BI tool.The use case for data lakes may be on the decline with the ability to separate storage and compute within data warehouses

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