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This story is more an exception than norm.

I know startups that hired data engineers, deployed warehouses,DBT, a BI tool and churned hundreds of reports, and in one case their DBT project has hundreds of files. No one in that company knew why any of it was used.

All said and done the business users wanted three reports.

More often than not data teams are self-serving than anything else.



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