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200: Tech Tales FoundMetabase: The Open-Source Revolution That Gave Power Back to the PeopleMetabase began as a side project born from frustration. In 2014, Sameer Al-Sakran, then a CTO at Expa, was tired of the cumbersome, gatekept world of data analytics. He envisioned a tool that would allow anyone—not just SQL-savvy engineers—to access and understand their business data. What started as a simple internal dashboard became a full-fledged open-source product when others saw its potential. Instead of charging immediately, the team behind Metabase gave it away for free, building trust and community along the way. Over four years, they cultivated a passionate user base and hundreds of contributors who helped improve the...2025-06-1727 min
DataFramed#306 The Next Generation of Business Intelligence with Colin Zima, CEO at OmniThe modern data stack has transformed how organizations work with data, but are our BI tools keeping pace with these changes? As data schemas become increasingly fluid and analysis needs range from quick explorations to production-grade reporting, traditional approaches are being challenged. How can we create analytics experiences that accommodate both casual spreadsheet users and technical data modelers? With semantic layers becoming crucial for AI integration and data governance growing in importance, what skills do today's BI professionals need to master? Finding the balance between flexibility and governance is perhaps the greatest challenge facing data teams today....2025-06-161h 01
The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship439: Metabase: How Ignoring Expert Advice Led to Real Growth - with Sameer Al-SakranSameer Al-Sakran is the founder and CEO of Metabase, an open-source BI tool that helps teams quickly turn raw data into charts and dashboards.====================================❤️ This episode is powered by Gearheart https://saasclub.io/gearheartBook a free 1:1 consultation: https://saasclub.io/gearheart/book====================================Show Notes: https://saasclub.io/439Join Email List: Get weekly SaaS learnings, new podcast episodes, and actionable insights right in your inbox: https://saasclub.io/email/Join Community: SaaS Club is t...2025-04-1756 min
Podcast Archives - Software Engineering DailyOpen Source Data Analytics with Sameer Al-Sakran
Data analytics and business intelligence involve collecting, processing, and interpreting data to guide decision-making. A common challenge in data-focused organizations is how to make data accessible to the wider organization, without the need for large data teams.
Metabase is an open source business intelligence tool that focuses on data exploration, visualization, and analysis. It offers a lightweight deployment strategy and aims to solve common challenges around data-driven decision making. A key aspect of its interface is that it allows users to interact with data with, or without, SQL.
Sameer Al-Sakran is the founder and CEO...2024-12-0347 minAll Content Archives - Software Engineering DailyOpen Source Data Analytics with Sameer Al-Sakran
Data analytics and business intelligence involve collecting, processing, and interpreting data to guide decision-making. A common challenge in data-focused organizations is how to make data accessible to the wider organization, without the need for large data teams.
Metabase is an open source business intelligence tool that focuses on data exploration, visualization, and analysis. It offers a lightweight deployment strategy and aims to solve common challenges around data-driven decision making. A key aspect of its interface is that it allows users to interact with data with, or without, SQL.
Sameer Al-Sakran is the founder and CEO...2024-12-0347 minSoftware Engineering DailyOpen Source Data Analytics with Sameer Al-Sakran
Data analytics and business intelligence involve collecting, processing, and interpreting data to guide decision-making. A common challenge in data-focused organizations is how to make data accessible to the wider organization, without the need for large data teams.
Metabase is an open source business intelligence tool that focuses on data exploration, visualization, and analysis. It offers a lightweight deployment strategy and aims to solve common challenges around data-driven decision making. A key aspect of its interface is that it allows users to interact with data with, or without, SQL.
Sameer Al-Sakran is the founder and CEO...2024-12-0347 min
Software Engineering DailyOpen Source Data Analytics with Sameer Al-SakranData analytics and business intelligence involve collecting, processing, and interpreting data to guide decision-making. A common challenge in data-focused organizations is how to make data accessible to the wider organization, without the need for large data teams.Metabase is an open source business intelligence tool that focuses on data exploration, visualization, and analysis. It offers a lightweight deployment strategy and aims to solve common challenges around data-driven decision making. A key aspect of its interface is that it allows users to interact with data with, or without, SQL.Sameer Al-Sakran is the founder and CEO...2024-12-0347 min
DataFramed#264 From Gen AI to Gen BI with Omri Kohl, CEO and Co-Founder of Pyramid AnalyticsWe’re improving DataFramed, and we need your help! We want to hear what you have to say about the show, and how we can make it more enjoyable for you—find out more here.The convergence of AI and business intelligence is creating new opportunities for innovation. As AI becomes more embedded in BI tools, the challenge lies in fostering a data-driven culture within organizations. How can professionals bridge the gap between intuition and data-driven decision-making? What strategies can be employed to cultivate a culture where data is at the forefront of business decisions? And how can...2024-11-2549 min
DataFramed#262 Self-Service Business Intelligence with Sameer Al-Sakran, CEO at MetabaseWe’re improving DataFramed, and we need your help! We want to hear what you have to say about the show, and how we can make it more enjoyable for you—find out more here.We’re often caught chasing the dream of “self-serve” data—a place where data empowers stakeholders to answer their questions without a data expert at every turn. But what does it take to reach that point? How do you shape tools that empower teams to explore and act on data without the usual bottlenecks? And with the growing presence of natural language tools and AI...2024-11-1851 min
Open Source Startup PodcastE150: Fast Analytics with MetabaseSameer Al-Sakran is CEO of Metabase, the open-source analytics and business intelligence platform. Their open source project, also called metabase, has over 38K stars on GitHub.
Metabase has raised $51M from investors including NEA, Insight and Expa.
In this episode, we dig into the company's 10 year journey, what it means to have a "developer friendly analytics platform", eliminating the friction with BI by making Metabase super fast to get started with, keeping the product simple, juggling short-term execution with their long-term vision & more! 2024-09-2439 min
Beyond LeadershipSimon Belak, hacker-filozof, predavatelj, soustanovitelj Hekovnika, strokovnjak za razvoj produktov - "Meta-work in kako postati data-driven podjetje?" Simon Belak je pomagal več ducatom podjetij postati data-driven in postaviti ali nadgraditi svoje podatkovne oddelke in podatkovno infrastrukturo. Poleg svetovalnega dela je bil tekom svoje kariere eden prvih inženirjev na Metabase iz Silicijeve doline, kjer je vodil razvoj umetne inteligence in pripeljal produkt do tega, da ga dnevno uporablja preko 50.000 podjetji, med drugim Swisscom, N26, Revolut, SpaceX, Adidas. Pred tem je bil tehnični direktor na GoOpti, kjer je s svojim delom podatkovno podprl GoOptijevo mednarodno širitev, izboljšal profitabilnost za 35%, vzpostavil growth hacking procese in pomagal pri pridobitvi serija A investicije tveganega kapitala. Kot soustanovitelj Hekovnika – prve st...2022-03-281h 41
Beyond LeadershipSimon Belak, hacker-filozof, predavatelj, soustanovitelj Hekovnika, strokovnjak za razvoj produktov - "Meta-work in kako postati data-driven podjetje?"Simon Belak je pomagal več ducatom podjetij postati data-driven in postaviti ali nadgraditi svoje podatkovne oddelke in podatkovno infrastrukturo. Poleg svetovalnega dela je bil tekom svoje kariere eden prvih inženirjev na Metabase iz Silicijeve doline, kjer je vodil razvoj umetne inteligence in pripeljal produkt do tega, da ga dnevno uporablja preko 50.000 podjetji, med drugim Swisscom, N26, Revolut, SpaceX, Adidas. Pred tem je bil tehnični direktor na GoOpti, kjer je s svojim delom podatkovno podprl GoOptijevo mednarodno širitev, izboljšal profitabilnost za 35%, vzpostavil growth hacking procese in pomagal pri pridobitvi serija A investicije tveganega kapitala. Kot soustanovitelj Hekovnika – prve st...2022-03-281h 41
Building Remote TeamsUsing Data in Decision Making - CEO of MetabaseAll companies want to use data in making better decisions, but it's not straightforward. In today's episode, we talk to Sameer Al-Sakran, the CEO of Metabase.2021-01-2739 min
Open Source Archives - Software Engineering DailyMetabase: Business Intelligence Open Source with Sameer Al-Sakran
Business intelligence tooling allows analysts to see large quantities of data presented to them in a flexible interface including charts, graphs, and other visualizations. BI tools have been around for decades, and as the world moves towards increased open source software, the business intelligence tools are following that trend.
Metabase is an open source business intelligence system that has been widely adopted by enterprises. It includes all the common tools that are expected from a business intelligence system: large-scale data ingestion, visualization software, and a flexible user interface.
Sameer Al-Sakran is the CEO...2020-08-1853 minSoftware Engineering DailyMetabase: Business Intelligence Open Source with Sameer Al-SakranBusiness intelligence tooling allows analysts to see large quantities of data presented to them in a flexible interface including charts, graphs, and other visualizations. BI tools have been around for decades, and as the world moves towards increased open source software, the business intelligence tools are following that trend.Metabase is an open source business intelligence system that has been widely adopted by enterprises. It includes all the common tools that are expected from a business intelligence system: large-scale data ingestion, visualization software, and a flexible user interface.Sameer Al-Sakran is the CEO of Metabase...2020-08-1856 min
Data Engineering PodcastMetabase Self Service Business Intelligence with Sameer Al-Sakran - Episode 29Summary
Business Intelligence software is often cumbersome and requires specialized knowledge of the tools and data to be able to ask and answer questions about the state of the organization. Metabase is a tool built with the goal of making the act of discovering information and asking questions of an organizations data easy and self-service for non-technical users. In this episode the CEO of Metabase, Sameer Al-Sakran, discusses how and why the project got started, the ways that it can be used to build and share useful reports, some of the useful features planned for future releases...2018-04-3044 min