Why data is essential for ambitious companies

Most companies hire their first data person at exactly the wrong time.

Just discussed this with Polytomic CEO Ghalib Suleiman - the pattern is everywhere.

You hit product-market fit. Revenue growing. Time for a "data analyst" right?
Wrong.

You hire one person and ask them to do analytics engineering, analysis, strategic insights, AND decision making. Four completely different jobs.

They're only equipped for one.

Result: no ROI, frustrated leadership, burned out hire.

The real issue? Companies hire for insights when they actually need infrastructure first.

Building ETL pipelines on Snowflake, data architecture with Supabase - that foundation work has to happen before meaningful analysis.

Same way we structure our eng workflows. Slack data, Notion SDK, Github repos need solid piping before they become decision-making tools.

Most growing companies skip the infrastructure step and wonder why their data hire isn't delivering.

What's your experience with data team building? Seeing this timing issue at your company?

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