Afterpay’s Nitish Mathew on Prioritizing Customer Needs, Balancing Governance and Freedom, and Giving Your Team Purpose
Over the last two years, Afterpay has more than doubled its consumer base from 7 million to 19 million by giving consumers more opportunities to make big-ticket purchases using its simple, pay-over-time platform. Their ever-growing success in the crowded payments market is what led the company to be acquired by Block, the parent company for such brands as Cash App, Square, and TIDAL. Now, as part of the Block family, Afterpay Senior Director of Data Engineering & Governance, Nitish Mathew has made the move to Cash App where his team’s mission is to enable data and platforms for everyone in the company. He joins The Data Chief to discuss measuring the impact of analytics, the rise of the analytics engineer, the importance of taking risks, and much more.
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Show Notes
Nitish Mathew, the Global Head of Data Engineering and Governance at Afterpay, joins The Data Chief to discuss measuring the impact of analytics, the rise of the analytics engineer, the importance of taking risks, and much more.
Tune in to learn:
- Why you can't take a data center mindset to the cloud (6:30)
- Why stakeholder satisfaction is the ultimate KPI (15:00)
- Inspiring your team through purpose (19:10)
- How to build a “walled garden” for business users (22:40)
- The importance of taking risks and celebrating failures (30:40)
Get even more insights from data and analytics leaders like Nitish on The Data Chief.
Episode mentions:
- Afterpay Blog
- Netezza
- Block
- CashApp
- Christian Idiodi
- Five Dysfunctions of the Team
- Fail Fast, Learn Faster: Lessons in Data-Driven Leadership in an Age of Disruption, Big Data, and AI
- Risk: A User's Guide
- INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
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