233: The Power of a Triple Threat in Data: Business, Engineering, and Strategy with Solomon Kahn of Delivery Layer and Top Data People

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and John welcome Solomon Kahn, Founder & CEO of Delivery Layer and Founder & Chief Data Officer at Top Data People. Solomon discusses his career journey from startups to large corporations, emphasizing the importance of being a "triple threat" in data—proficient in statistics, programming, and business. He shares insights from his work at Nielsen, particularly in sports sponsorship analytics. The conversation covers client-facing reporting, customer analytics, and professional development. Solomon highlights the necessity of mastering foundational skills, building executive relationships, actively pursuing business improvements through data, what it takes to become a LinkedIn influencer, and more.

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Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.