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Mar 2022
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Afterpay’s Nitish Mathew on Prioritizing...

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Nitish Mathew, the Global Head of Data Engineering and Governance at Afterpay, joins The Data Chief to discuss measuring the impact of analytics, the rise of the analytics engineer, the importance of taking risks, and much more.

Tune in to learn:

  • Why you can't take a data center mindset to the cloud (6:30)
  • Why stakeholder satisfaction is the ultimate KPI (15:00)
  • Inspiring your team through purpose (19:10)
  • How to build a “walled garden” for business users (22:40)
  • The importance of taking risks and celebrating failures (30:40)

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