Description: Founded in 2019 by Jake Fuentes and Jon Brelig, Cascade was a no-code data analysis tool built for data-savvy business teams. Here are some lessons we learned when building Cascade.
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We built Cascade on a few fundamental assumptions, which we go through below. For each one of those assumptions we were partially right and partially wrong — right enough to make the assumption in the first place, but wrong enough that we eventually had to change course. We accompany each one of our assumptions with a deeper dive into what we got right and wrong about each one.
Both the founders knew from our prior lives (Jon at Infoscout and Jake at Capital One) that there was a large market of non-technical, data-savvy analysts buried deep inside many organizations. Those analysts were caught between the limitations of spreadsheets and the heavy lift required for code, leaving them with inordinate amounts of extra work crunching numbers and updating presentation charts. That creates a “silent tax” paid by many organizations in the form of time spent by this talented but underval