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The Data Behind Data Breaches: What 7 Charts Tell Us
In light of last month’s Facebook data breach, which affected over 50M users, and recent reports on the Google+ security breach, which resulted in the shutdown of the service, the critical issue...
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Value & Impact: Two Reasons I Joined ThoughtSpot
Throughout my career, I have been super blessed to work with great people and to build great companies that have had tremendous success commercially, and even...
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How to Design for Long Term Behavior Change
As designers, we’ve been designing for behavior for a long time now. At its very heart, design promotes behaviors.
Think of a door. The very design of it...
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Are Hurricanes Getting Worse? A Story Told in 7
As Hurricane Florence barrels into the Atlantic seaboard, causing widespread evacuations and millions in expected damages, I’m reminded of the other...
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5 Reasons to Consider Interning at an Enterprise
My journey in the IT industry started 3 years ago when I joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) as a Technology Consultant. After 2 years at HPE working in...
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Welcome Sudheesh Nair! ThoughtSpot’s New CEO
Over the past six years, we have been busy building an incredible foundation for ThoughtSpot - an analytics product built from the ground up like no other, the...
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What Analytics Tells Us About Belgium’s Chances
The knockout round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup has begun, leaving the group stages behind in an exciting and peculiar fashion with the focal point being on VAR (...
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We Raised $145M. So What
By now you’ve probably heard the news ThoughtSpot raised a $145M Series D funding round as we take search & AI-driven analytics to every enterprise....
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Our Hockey Stick Moment: ThoughtSpot’s Record
It’s that time of the (fiscal) year. Companies far and wide have closed their books on another year, reflecting on what the last twelve months means for the...
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No Luck Recruiting AI Talent? You’re not Doing
It’s that time of the (fiscal) year. Companies far and wide have closed their books on another year, reflecting on what the last twelve months means for the...
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Gartner Names ThoughtSpot a “Visionary”
It’s that time of year. The highly anticipated Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms was just released, and we’re...
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Super Bowl LII: Analyzing How the Eagles Pull Off
It’s my favorite time of the year! On Sunday, the New England Patriots will be taking on the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 52 in Minneapolis.
It’s no...
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Searching for Disruption: Why the DoD Needs a New
A few months ago, I started a new job at ThoughtSpot and took my first vacation this Christmas. My family and I took a trip to see my brother and his family in...
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Our Biggest Quarter Ever: 6 Reasons ThoughtSpot’
Life at a startup moves fast. When you’re a startup in a space as white hot as data, analytics and AI, the pace quickly reaches breakneck speeds.
Here at...
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5 Amazing New Additions in ThoughtSpot 4.4
Release planning is more art than science. With each release, there is constant combat of choices among innovative features, customer requests, technical debt,...
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Analytics ThoughtLeaders Discuss Data Domination
Last week, we hosted the inaugural Analytics ThoughtLeaders event at the Conrad Hotel in NYC, bringing together over 200 data disruptors and industry...
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Not Your Ordinary Internship - My Summer at
I joined ThoughtSpot as a Product Marketing MBA intern in the summer of 2017. Hailing from Israel A.K.A “Start-Up Nation”, I was excited to spend my...
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Introducing SpotIQ: The Power of 1,000 Analysts In
Today, we are thrilled to announce the debut of AI-Driven Analytics and the launch of SpotIQ. Most of you may know ThoughtSpot as the world’s first pure play...
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Simplify your UI - Uncover Functionality in Layers
ThoughtSpot can handle extremely complex use cases ranging from schemas like chasm trap, creating arbitrary formulas, perform calculations on top of TBs of data...
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Designing Multiple Layers into Search
On the Product team at ThoughtSpot, we spend a lot of time thinking about search. When a user is searching their data from our Relational Search bar, what’s...
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A Platform Approach to Building the ThoughtSpot
In 2012 as ThoughtSpot was born, we started evolving the idea of search-driven business intelligence (BI). Our vision was to raise the bar on ease of use of a...
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7 Requirements for an Enterprise-Class Search-
Search-driven BI has emerged as an important trend in our industry. According to Gartner, “by 2020, 50% of analytic queries will be generated using search,...
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Storytelling through charts - how to lie with data
I spent more time than you would expect thinking of a good tagline for “storytelling through charts”. This post’s initial goal was to discuss how useful...
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Calling all Entrepreneurial Computer Scientists of
At ThoughtSpot, we have set out to solve the grand problem of Human Data Interaction. While Steve Jobs imagined computers as bicycles for the mind, we don’t...
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Self-Service Learning with Search Replay
ThoughtSpot’s search driven interface makes it easy for business users to self-serve many of their reporting and analytics needs.
ThoughtSpot’s search...
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Escape from Powerpoint: Make Live Data
ThoughtSpot’s search-driven BI solution makes it incredibly easy to ask questions about your data and get insights. These insights are presented together as...
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Founding ThoughtSpot - Why We Picked The BI Market
In my ten years in the valley, I have learned that a fairly reasonable order to approach things while starting a company is...
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What Software Products Can Learn from Vertical
Over the past few centuries, the world economy has grown dramatically more complex. The array of products and services available in the market has skyrocketed,...
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Embedded Analytics for the “Data Hungry” World
The past decade has seen a resurgence of interest in data. To name a few, there are poll trackers for elections, sports blogs that dissect the performance of...
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3 Things to Prioritize in Every Product Release
Product management at a high growth startup is a high stakes, high rewards role. This is especially true at a place like ThoughtSpot where the engineering team...
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CodeX 2015: How We Killed the Keyboard with 3D,
The cornerstone of our engineering ethos at ThoughtSpot – the Arc Reactor to our Ironman – is our ability to perform the spectacular feats of engineering...
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