Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Ben’s background and journey in data (0:18)
• Relating data to business outcomes (2:33)
• Facebook's approach to data-driven business outcomes (4:43)
• Subjectivity and data-driven business outcomes (8:43)
• Infrastructure and data collection at Facebook (12:04)
• The importance of first-party data and the death of third-party cookies (16:27)
• Facebook's Data and Attribution Challenges (20:08)
• Facebook's Infrastructure and Tooling (23:41)
• Differences in Data Approaches (28:26)
• Challenges of Data Project Alignment with Business Outcomes (32:58)
• Integration of Data into Tools and Partnerships (35:12)
• Building Alliances with Embedded Data Analysts (38:08)
• Budgeting for Data Teams (40:02)
• Healthy Team Dynamics and Budgeting (44:18)
• Data Team Reporting Structure (46:23)
• Connecting with Ben and More Content (50:55)

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