Founder Friday with Tom Maitland from Filament Analytics

11 Dec 2025 / Ep. 69 / 32:54

This week on Founder Friday Scotty is joined by founder of Filament Analytics Tom Maitland. Filament is an automated data warehouse that unifies business data, making it easy to analyse with natural language.

Tom speaks on the value of being a second time founder in knowing what to prioritise in the early stages of building. As well as talking about the new learnings arising from publicly building Filament by sharing progress on social platforms such as Linkedin to gain direct feedback from piers.

Founder Friday is about works still in progress. Learning from success stories is important, but learning from founders still in the thick of getting to market is just as useful – and sometimes much more realistic.

About Tom Maitland:

Linkedin: https://au.linkedin.com/in/tommaitland

Filament: https://filamentanalytics.com

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