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🇪🇺 #266 - Flix: Leveraging data to scale operations
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- DataGen
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- Apr 22, 2026
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- 1617
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Summary
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 🤩 OTHER EPISODES YOU SHOULD LOVE #6 - HelloFresh: Building and scaling a Product Analytics culture #5 - N26: Building and scaling the Data team for Marketing #1 - BlaBlaCar : Managing 50 Data People with Manu, VP Data 👋 MORE DATA CONTENT? 1/ Follow me on LinkedIn here 🤳 2/ Sign up for the newsletter (summaries, events) here 💌 3/ Check out the podcast in video format on YouTube here 📹 🎙 SUPPORT THE PODCAST FOR FREE 1/ Subscribe 🔔 2/ Leave a 5 stars review on Apple Podcasts here 🥰 Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.