Thoughtful Friday #14: Hypergrowing Communities & Stories — Deconstructing Airbyte, Dbt, Levels

I’m Sven, and this is part of the Thoughtful Friday. My super secret newsletter I usually only send out to people on the list. But this piece got some great responses and I figured there’s no harm in putting it into the open.

Thoughtful Friday, the email that helps you understand and shape the one thing that will power the future: data. I’m also writing a book about the data mesh part of that.

Let’s dive in!

Time to Read: 8 minutes

• Airbyte, Levels and DbtLabs mastered two skills, community growing & movement creation
• Both skills go hand in hand but can be used in separate
• In the data space, both seem to become essential
• Movements/market visions exist on top of company/product visions
• Product vision = how does the product fit into the movement

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I just read an engaging message inside the airbyte Slack channel which promptly reminded me that I had this draft sitting around. It was a simple bot highlighting the biggest community contributors to the open-source side of Airbyte.

Airbyte does two things well, they have both, hyper-grown their community and managed to spread their story. This pic puts it still quite nice.