1 hr 5 min
A Single Complete Leader, w/ P3 Pres & COO Kellan Danielson Raw Data By P3 Adaptive
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Get to know the C-Suite of P3 as we welcome Kellan Danielson to the show! He's President and COO at P3 and is responsible for the development of so many of the essential inner workings that have allowed P3 to grow as successful as it has. His journey from humble introverted data and business intelligence enthusiast to humble company President is wonderful, and his business acumen is unmatched!
Episode Transcript:
Rob Collie (00:00:00):
Hello friends, we're going to do something a little bit different today. Our guest is Kellan Danielson, President and COO here at P3, my business partner and the person I like to joke about as he and I combined make one good leader. This session took on a bit of a retrospective journey kind of feel. Today, our company P3, we really feel like we have it figured out. And that's an unusual thing for me to say, given myself deprecating nature. But I think it's a part of having been on this journey, and we've spent so many years figuring it out, so many years solving puzzles, so many years cracking the riddle that is our business model that today it doesn't really feel arrogant when I say that I think we've really solved it. But it was a hard road and it's one that Kellan and I traveled together over the last six plus years. And so a big part of what we talk about in this podcast is that journey, that road that we were on, the challenges that we faced and how we adapted.
Rob Collie (00:00:56):
It's been a technical journey, it's been a business journey, but it's also been an intensely emotional and personal journey. I'm insanely grateful that Kellan and I crossed paths and teamed up. It just wouldn't have worked probably with anyone else. There's a very Jerry Maguire, you complete me sort of feeling here. And I do get a little bit emotional mushy at a couple of points in our conversation. I'm a little too close to this story, of course, and so it's hard for me to tell whether this will be one of our more popular episodes or one of our less popular episodes. We'll find out, won't we? I'm really curious to find out actually. So let's get into it.
Announcer (00:01:35):
Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please.
Announcer (00:01:39):
This is the Raw Data By P3 Podcast with your host, Rob Collie. Find out what the experts at P3 can do for your business. Go to powerpivotpro.com. Raw Data By P3 is data with a human element.
Rob Collie (00:01:55):
Welcome to the show, Kellan Danielson.
Kellan Danielson (00:01:59):
Thanks for having me.
Rob Collie (00:02:01):
Yeah. You're so thankful. This is the thing you're going to look forward to the most for like a week. I'm sure of it. Actually I was going to say, thank you for being a good sport and willing to join us. This is a little bit different. You and I work together all the time. Normally on these shows we're connecting with someone we've never met before or reconnecting with someone from the past. So we work together all the time. We almost need to explain to people our own history. Let's start here. You were one of the first two or three people to pass what we now call the interview of death.
Kellan Danielson (00:02:41):
That's right.
Rob Collie (00:02:42):
And at the time I was "just" looking for people who could do the job of consulting in the Power BI space and could do it as well as I could or better without a lot of coaching, without any coaching. I had no idea that I was going to be getting also the future president and COO of this company. It's a very interesting journey. Do you remember how you felt at the time when you were doing that test? There's this weirdo on the internet emailing you a DAX riddle essentially. Can you put yourself back in that place?
Kellan Danielson (00:03:23):
Yeah. I think it was with stages because what you needed at the time was evolving. Initially I think it was more a like moonlight kind of a gig, which I was very into because what I was doing at Columbia Sportswear, I was just get
Get to know the C-Suite of P3 as we welcome Kellan Danielson to the show! He's President and COO at P3 and is responsible for the development of so many of the essential inner workings that have allowed P3 to grow as successful as it has. His journey from humble introverted data and business intelligence enthusiast to humble company President is wonderful, and his business acumen is unmatched!
Episode Transcript:
Rob Collie (00:00:00):
Hello friends, we're going to do something a little bit different today. Our guest is Kellan Danielson, President and COO here at P3, my business partner and the person I like to joke about as he and I combined make one good leader. This session took on a bit of a retrospective journey kind of feel. Today, our company P3, we really feel like we have it figured out. And that's an unusual thing for me to say, given myself deprecating nature. But I think it's a part of having been on this journey, and we've spent so many years figuring it out, so many years solving puzzles, so many years cracking the riddle that is our business model that today it doesn't really feel arrogant when I say that I think we've really solved it. But it was a hard road and it's one that Kellan and I traveled together over the last six plus years. And so a big part of what we talk about in this podcast is that journey, that road that we were on, the challenges that we faced and how we adapted.
Rob Collie (00:00:56):
It's been a technical journey, it's been a business journey, but it's also been an intensely emotional and personal journey. I'm insanely grateful that Kellan and I crossed paths and teamed up. It just wouldn't have worked probably with anyone else. There's a very Jerry Maguire, you complete me sort of feeling here. And I do get a little bit emotional mushy at a couple of points in our conversation. I'm a little too close to this story, of course, and so it's hard for me to tell whether this will be one of our more popular episodes or one of our less popular episodes. We'll find out, won't we? I'm really curious to find out actually. So let's get into it.
Announcer (00:01:35):
Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please.
Announcer (00:01:39):
This is the Raw Data By P3 Podcast with your host, Rob Collie. Find out what the experts at P3 can do for your business. Go to powerpivotpro.com. Raw Data By P3 is data with a human element.
Rob Collie (00:01:55):
Welcome to the show, Kellan Danielson.
Kellan Danielson (00:01:59):
Thanks for having me.
Rob Collie (00:02:01):
Yeah. You're so thankful. This is the thing you're going to look forward to the most for like a week. I'm sure of it. Actually I was going to say, thank you for being a good sport and willing to join us. This is a little bit different. You and I work together all the time. Normally on these shows we're connecting with someone we've never met before or reconnecting with someone from the past. So we work together all the time. We almost need to explain to people our own history. Let's start here. You were one of the first two or three people to pass what we now call the interview of death.
Kellan Danielson (00:02:41):
That's right.
Rob Collie (00:02:42):
And at the time I was "just" looking for people who could do the job of consulting in the Power BI space and could do it as well as I could or better without a lot of coaching, without any coaching. I had no idea that I was going to be getting also the future president and COO of this company. It's a very interesting journey. Do you remember how you felt at the time when you were doing that test? There's this weirdo on the internet emailing you a DAX riddle essentially. Can you put yourself back in that place?
Kellan Danielson (00:03:23):
Yeah. I think it was with stages because what you needed at the time was evolving. Initially I think it was more a like moonlight kind of a gig, which I was very into because what I was doing at Columbia Sportswear, I was just get
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