#Growth 7: How To Scale Data Teams The Right Way with Indigo's Lauren Moores

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Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This week on #Growth, host Matt Bilotti is talking all about data – space data, agriculture data, data science – with the self-proclaimed "data queen" herself, Lauren Moores, VP Data Strategy and Data Sciences at Indigo. Lauren has spent her whole career chasing data and finding answers to the toughest questions for industries that have undergone significant transformation. Matt and Lauren talk about the evolution of data science and how much it's all changed in just 20 years. Lauren also shares her pro tips on how to structure data teams through periods of massive growth.

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0:00.0	All right. Hello and welcome to another episode of hashtag growth. I am Matt Palladi,
0:14.5	and I am super excited to have a guest today who a couple weeks ago sent a message in Slack, a DC sent a message in Slack
0:23.2	and said, someone has to talk to this person on a podcast. They are amazing. And today I have
0:29.0	Lauren Moors, who is self-described data queen, and she currently is VP of Data and Strategy
0:35.5	at Indigo. And I'm super excited to have her.
0:37.9	Thanks for joining.
0:38.6	Thanks for having me.
0:39.3	I'm excited too.
0:40.1	Yeah.
0:40.5	So I was, you know, reading a little bit about you.
0:43.4	You know, Lauren says she's got more than 20 years in data, technology, strategy, science, data creation, and various information in tech industries and even a PhD in economics from Brown, which is pretty cool,
0:56.2	and has worked across a lot of different industries,
0:59.2	building data teams and applying data to answer questions
1:03.3	among your teams.
1:04.2	And so maybe you just have a quick background on your journey
1:07.4	and a little bit about Indigo for people that aren't familiar.
1:10.2	Yeah, let me start with indigo.
1:12.1	So indigo is the leader in beneficial agriculture.
1:15.1	We started in 2014, and our mission is to help farmers sustainably feed the planet, right?
1:22.1	And it all started with the science side using microbials and the microbiome system to, like we did with human
1:31.4	gut, apply it to the plant. And since then, we've evolved into providing services and products
1:37.1	to farmers to help them be more profitable and also to be more sustainable. I got to
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