Fivetran to Acquire dbt, dbt forks rife, Q4 begins #10 w/e 03 Oct 2025
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This was a busy week! The data world was set ALIGHT with chatter about Fivetran potentially acquiring/merging with dbt Labs in a $5-10bn deal.
🧠 What Fivetran’s acquisition of dbt Labs would mean for the Data Industry (link)
This has swiftly become one of our most read articles and boy are people piling in.
The number of people forking it rose the next day.
Some experts believe we are weeks away from an “Official” fork. Meanwhile…
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