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Felix Van De Maele

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
150 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

All in, we did about 75 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

And I love to use a bit of an older analogy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

Let's say you have a library.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

In a library, you have books, and you have these index cards.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

And these index cards tell you where to find a book, who the author is, who has last rented it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

It's very similar to organizations with data, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

So you have lots of databases that store the data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

These are the books of a library.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

What we do, we are the index cards.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

We help...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

people, users find where the data is, what it means, how they can use it, what the quality is, these types of things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

And ultimately, what we want to get to is that we call it the Amazonification of data, where ultimately users just shop for data, like they are on Amazon.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

They put it in their data basket, so to speak, and then it goes to approval workflows to actually get access to it, and so they can run the analytics.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

It's in a way, yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

It helps them find the data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

So that's in a way the search engine part.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

But then you need to understand that there's quality.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

There's really the governance because now it's chaos.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

Everybody wants to do data and everybody does data and it's a lot of chaos.