## Metadata - Author: [[dan-poppy|Dan Poppy]] - Full Title:: Ep 46: DBT Labs on DBT - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[Data culture|Data culture]], [[Data culture|Data culture]], - URL:: https://roundup.getdbt.com/p/ep-46-dbt-labs-on-dbt-w-daniel-le - Finished date:: [[2023-07-29]] ## Highlights Data is messy for everybody (even if we still try to make it good) > As our data team scaled at Zoom and it got even more complex, as the business would grow, when we tried to do the analysis ourselves in [[excel|Excel]], it would break because Zoom grew from a couple million to hundreds of millions of users. It ended up breaking our [[excel|Excel]] files and some of our queries would have to change. Doing that in a repeatable, consistent way was virtually impossible. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h6g7twppcvfv0dw80yq6cfhy))