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🎯 Strategic Sales, AI Smarts & Pixar Roots: Ralph Gootee CTO of TigerEye Tells All

June 11, 2025 • IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub • Season 9 • Episode 24

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This week on Making Data Simple, we welcome Ralph Gootee, CTO and co-founder of TigerEye, a company reshaping strategic sales intelligence with a data-driven edge. Ralph’s journey spans Pixar, Sony, and PlanGrid — and now he’s building tools to help sales leaders see around corners. From the secrets behind TigerEye's intuitive reporting to the realities of entrepreneurship and the affordability of LLMs, this episode hits both the business brain and the tech heart.

00:52 Meet Ralph Gootee
01:43 TigerEye
04:49 PlanGrid
07:43 Monetization
08:50 TigerEye's Objective
12:38 Reinventing Reporting
17:06 How it Works
22:21 The Secret Sauce
27:48 LLM Affordability
34:14 Last Call
38:57 The Entrepreneur Dilemma
39:47 Where to Reach TigerEye
40:07 Do Code Assistants Work?
47:32 For Fun

🔗 Connect with Ralph & TigerEye
LinkedIn: Ralph Gootee
Website: TigerEye
Blog: TigerEye Blog

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