Welcome back to a brand new season of The Start-Up Diaries Podcast!

To kick off the new season, we sat down with Mike Seville, Chief Data Officer at Dojo.

Founded with a deep understanding of the UK payment industry at its core, Dojo’s goal is to empower hard-working businesses to focus on the things that really matter to them – by seamlessly taking care of the things that don’t. Dojo provides businesses with a sleek, next-gen card machine that lets you take payments 80% faster than the competition.

In this episode, Mike Seville sits down with Chris to discuss the pivotal role that data plays at Dojo and the future of data teams…

Mike talks through how his role as Chief Data Officer has recently pivoted to reflect the way that data is moving, and what he thinks the future the CDO role holds.

Mike then dives into the fundamentals of building and scaling a data team, as well as the importance of having support a buy-in to the role of data from other C-Suite roles within an organisation.

Questions asked: 

1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your journey at Dojo
2. When we were preparing this episode you talked through how data is the foundation of the product and the future of the business. Can you talk us through this and the data platforms at Dojo?
3. Your role as Chief Data Officer has recently pivoted slightly, can you talk us through how and why you decided to make this change?
4. What does this mean for you career wise and what are your thoughts on the future of CDO role?
5. What do you think are the fundamentals to building a data team and getting them up and running?
6. What are the growing pains of scaling a data team?
7. In order to have a good partnership with other functions within the business, what do you need, as a data team, from the other c-suite roles? How do you get them brought into the data function and the value that you deliver?
8. When we were putting this episode together, we spoke about how data seems to change more than any other areas in tech, do you think this is a good thing and what do you think the future of data teams looks like, particularly as data is becoming more accessible and easy to deploy?
9. What has been your biggest challenge in your career to date?
10. And finally, what piece of advice would you give to a data leader thinking about joining a scale-up?

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