Tanmay Nagori is Head of Data & Analytics for Lending at Tide, the UK-based fintech unicorn. Tide helps SME businesses save time by providing banking, payment, administrative, and financial tools. Today, it is used by 1.8 million SMEs in the United Kingdom, India, Germany, and France.

We cover :

🔥 His journey from Analyst to Head of Analytics (Consulting, Amazon…)

🔥 How the data team is organized globally and what stack they use

🔥 The approach and tools they implemented to increase the business impact of analytics

🔥 His view on how AI changes the role of the analytics team (from insights to actions)

📚 RESOURCES

- Tanmay’s LinkedIn Profile

- The book "A Technique for Producing Ideas" by James Webb Young

- The book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman

🎬 CHAPTERS

00:00 What's Tide?

01:53 Tanmay’s journey

05:39 Their main analytics projects

08:19 Their stack

10:50 His main challenges

13:53 His career advice

15:55 Resources he recommends

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Ina Vaduvescu is director of analytics at Marshmallow, the UK-based unicorn that offers affordable car insurance for newcomers to the UK. The scaleup raised $90 million in 2025 at a $2 billion valuation. She leads a team of 12 analysts and has spent the past few years building and structuring the analytics function.

We cover :

🔥 Her journey, from data analyst to director across startups and scale-ups

🔥 How she structured a high-performing and standardized data team

🔥 The KPI tree framework that was transformative to how they operate

🔥 Their AI projects: AI analytics and customer support AI agent

📚 RESOURCES

- Ina’s LinkedIn profile

- The newsletter TLDR

- Lenny's Podcast

🎬 CHAPTERS

00:00 What's Marshmallow ?

00:39 Ina's journey

02:48 #1 - recruitment & stack

10:23 #2 - better prioritization

15:34 #3 - self-service & AI analytics

21:55 #4 - AI project for customer support

27:06 Their main challenges

28:05 Their next steps

30:04 The resources she recommends

30:41 Her career advice

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Manoj Raghavan is a Staff Data Strategist at Flix, the affordable travel tech scaleup based in Germany, solving technology for long-distance buses and trains. Flix operates in 40+ countries, has 5,000 employees, including around 100 data & AI experts.

We cover :

🔥 Their data organisation: decentralized and with no central data leadership

🔥 One of the main projects he worked on to improve customer experience: bus partner classification

🔥 Their stack: AWS, Snowflake, dbt, Power BI…

🔥 One of their main current challenges: build vs. buy when it comes to AI tools

📚 RESOURCES

- Manoj’s LinkedIn profile

- The book of book Chip Huyen Designing Machine Learning Systems

- The book of book Chip Huyen AI Engineering

🎬 CHAPTERS

00:00 What is Flix?

02:38 Manoj's journey

06:28 The Data team organization

10:43 One of his main projects

16:35 Their stack

19:02 Their main challenges

21:17 Their next step

23:40 Resources he recommends

24:42 His career advice

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