Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

1021: How dbt Won Analytics Engineering, with dbt Lab’s CEO Tristan Handy

📅 August 25, 2026 ⏱️ 51m

In Episode #1021, Tristan Handy (Founder and CEO of dbt Labs) joins Jon Krohn to explain how a study of about a hundred companies in 2016 became analytics engineering, and then became a tool that over a hundred thousand data teams rely on. Tristan coined the term, chose SQL when Spark was the fashio