Sameer Al-Sakran, CEO of Metabase, live at Mad Builders
In this edition, we feature Sameer Al-Sakran —Founder & CEO of Metabase, one of the most successful open-source software companies in the world.
He started Metabase as a side project, waited years before charging, ignored a lot of conventional SaaS advice, and built a product now used by 90,000+ companies, with 8-figure ARR and a global open-source community behind it.
Not many founders of this calibre come through Madrid.
Agenda
18:00 — Welcome and intro (come early, there are Metacupcakes 🧁)
18:30 — A conversation with Sameer Al-Sakran, CEO & Founder of Metabase 🎤
19:15 — Pizza, drinks and chats 🍕
20:00 — End 👋
What we'll cover
- Why open source?
- Why wait so long to monetize?
- How do you build a product-led company?
- When should you ignore customers?
- How do you sell to enterprises without losing the soul of the product?
- How they have they accelerated their shipping cadence?
- How Metabase is integrating AI into the product, from natural language querying to AI governance controls
This is a conversation about building enduring companies, not chasing startup trends.
We'll close the evening the right way: pizza, drinks, and good conversations. Great chance to connect with founders, builders, and data people in Madrid.
About Metabase
Business Intelligence has always been painful.
Companies spend millions collecting data, then still rely on analysts, SQL queues, broken dashboards, spreadsheets, and tools most teams don’t want to use.
Metabase became one of the most popular BI tools in the world by making analytics simple: open source, self-serve, and usable by anyone inside a company.
https://www.metabase.com/
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