1 The Conventional Wisdom of Data Josh James Founder and CEO, Domo

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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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The Conventional Wisdom

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