The Distributed Truth

How Data Leaders Drive Business Value with Pedram Navid

Episode Summary

It’s another episode and today, Evan welcomes Pedram Navid, formerly the Head of Data at Hightouch. Pedram talks about how he got in the industry and shares his insights and advice about the importance of understanding the business to have more effective data analytics that drives it with value. Find out more in this latest episode of The Distributed Truth podcast. TRUTHS OF THE DAY PEDRAM: UNDERSTAND THE BUSINESS AND ITS GOALS “You have to understand your business. It's not about the data, it's not about the tools. That's not why you were hired. Nobody cares if you're using snowflake or BigQuery. At the end of the day, what they care about, is the health of the company. Do you understand how the company makes money? Do you understand how the company sells your product? To understand how the company builds their product? If not, you need to know all of those things.” PEDRAM: ALIGN WITH THE LEADERS OF THE BUSINESS “You need to understand if you're going to be a leader in a company, what the leaders of the company care about, and then once you have that, then I think the rest of it becomes really easy. But without that, you're just a data analyst. At the end of the day, you're not really a data leader.” Connect with Pedram and learn more about his work: Pedram Navid | Learn Pedram’s offerings Connect with Evan to learn more about Syncari and The Distributed Truth podcast: Evan Dunn | Syncari | Syncari.com Make sure to leave a comment, and subscribe!

Episode Notes

It’s another episode and today, Evan welcomes Pedram Navid, formerly the Head of Data at Hightouch. Pedram talks about how he got in the industry and shares his insights and advice about the importance of understanding the business to have more effective data analytics that drives it with value. Find out more in this latest episode of The Distributed Truth podcast.

 

TRUTHS OF THE DAY

PEDRAM: UNDERSTAND THE BUSINESS AND ITS GOALS

“You have to understand your business. It's not about the data, it's not about the tools. That's not why you were hired. Nobody cares if you're using snowflake or BigQuery. At the end of the day, what they care about, is the health of the company. Do you understand how the company makes money? Do you understand how the company sells your product? To understand how the company builds their product? If not, you need to know all of those things.”

PEDRAM: ALIGN WITH THE LEADERS OF THE BUSINESS

“You need to understand if you're going to be a leader in a company, what the leaders of the company care about, and then once you have that, then I think the rest of it becomes really easy. But without that, you're just a data analyst. At the end of the day, you're not really a data leader.”

 

Connect with Pedram and learn more about his work:

 

Connect with Evan to learn more about Syncari and The Distributed Truth podcast:

 

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