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He may have just touched down in London after a transatlantic flight , but Tableau Software ’ s President and CEO , Adam Selipsky , is feeling energised . He ’ s made the journey not long after Tableau ’ s annual conference in New Orleans — an electrifying get-together of self-confessed data-geeks , who are invested in what the data analytics and visualisation firm has got up its sleeve . “ It ’ s not really like any other tech conference ,” Selipsky says , “ You almost have to be there to really understand it ; the level of excitement and passion is incredible . It ’ s not just a gathering of technology people , it ’ s really a community coming together .”
To say that Tableau has a strong fan base would be an understatement – and it has the numbers to back this claim . Over 17,000 customers and partners came to its conference in New Orleans and today , the firm claims to have over 50,000 customer accounts . It also won over the backing of Selipsky , who joined the firm just two years ago . Before that , he had his made his mark at Amazon Web Services ( AWS ), helping to grow the enterprise from a startup to a multi-billion-dollar business and a leader in cloud computing . “ I think AWS taught me a lot about how to scale a company ,” he reflects . “ The product needs to work differently at scale , the way you communicate internally needs to work differently to scale , the way that you interact with your customers and who your customers are changes as you grow , particularly if you ’ re growing rapidly .”
Spending over a decade at AWS , Selipsky made
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