EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, ALTERYX
DAY JOB: Co-founded fast-growing analytics software firm, whose product lets companies manipulate huge amounts of data to find insights for business decisions. In less than three years of being a public company, has grown to market value of nearly $10 billion, sixth-largest in OC. Annual growth rate of 50% since 2017 IPO. Evangelist of big data applications, looks to empower people to become “citizen data scientists.”
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Putting company’s software to use during COVID-19 crisis. Product was used to help hospitals in the Northeast source equipment. It was also used to help medical equipment manufacturers “reimagine” supply chains to find alternative suppliers.
NOTABLE: Alteryx offered free data training to thousands of unemployed workers to bring them up to speed on analytics. “We want to get them back on their feet as quickly as possible,” Stoecker said in May of the program, called Advancing Data and Analytics Potential Together, or ADAPT. “It is the opportunity for us to give free copies of Alteryx to any unemployed worker anywhere on Earth. We’re going to put them through our learning paths; we’re going to get them certified on our software.”
QUOTABLE: Those who want to continue after using ADAPT can advance to a nanodegree in “predictive analytics” in a program run by the Udacity online learning organization. Says Stoecker, whose firm opted not to lay anyone off during pandemic: “Hopefully a lot of our customers will hire these folks.”
FAST FACT: Still on track for move to 183,000-square-foot new headquarters at Spectrum Terrace. Reached by phone in May, Stoecker was the only Alteryx employee at company’s 80,000-square-foot existing offices at Park Place.
