What is Looker?

Multi billion 'Business intelligence' tool now from Google; more or less a fancy charting library with some access controls.

Damn sounds like easy money.

If 12 month enterprise sales cycles sounds like easy money then sure.

	▲	james_marks 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Don't forget 18 months trailing Soc II, Type 2. And that the time to execute on this idea was 15 years ago, back when this was relatively difficult to build.

“Looker is Google Cloud agentic business intelligence and embedded analytics platform.”

Something of the past according to the author.

	▲	pqb 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Looker has already started pivoting into the agentic BI platform but it is still not great.