Nexus Speaker Series: Dean Stoecker, Co-Founder & Former CEO at Alteryx
In collaboration with Manifest at UCI, Nexus is excited to host a fireside chat with Dean Stoecker, Co-Founder & Former CEO of Alteryx which was acquired for $4.4 billion.
Dean was featured on the Forbes Billionaire List in 2019 with a net worth of $1.2B+ and built one of the most successful enterprise software companies to ever come out of Southern California.
Dean Stoecker’s two-decade entrepreneurial journey is a rare story of endurance, vision, and founder-led execution. He co-founded Alteryx in 1997 and spent 20+ years scaling it from a bootstrapped startup into a publicly traded analytics giant (NYSE: AYX) now valued at billions of dollars. Today, Alteryx powers data decisions at over 8,000 organizations worldwide — from Coca-Cola and McDonald’s to Ford, Walmart, and Audi.
Alteryx unlocked a new category in self-service analytics — turning what once took analysts 100 hours into workflows that now run in under 20 minutes. His long game of building quietly (with no VC funding for the first 14 years) and putting users first redefined how modern enterprises approach data — earning Alteryx recognition from Gartner, Deloitte, and customers across nearly every industry.
Dean's passion for innovation extends beyond business. He launched Alteryx for Good to bring analytics tools to nonprofits, schools, and underserved communities — and has even pitched data-driven solutions to international peacebuilding efforts. In recent years, Alteryx also partnered with and sponsored the McLaren F1 Team, bringing real-time race analytics into one of the fastest sports on Earth — a fitting match for a company that thrives on speed and precision.
Dean has been honored with the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award and named Outstanding Public Company CEO by OCTANE. He’s been profiled in Forbes, Business Journal, and recognized globally as one of the top minds in enterprise innovation.
About Nexus ♾️ - SoCal's First Intercollegiate Entrepreneurship Society
Nexus is the community for SoCal’s most talented and driven student entrepreneurs. We bring together ambitious builders—engineers, designers, operators, creators, and more—from top universities such as UCI, UCLA, USC, Caltech, LMU and beyond.
Our mission is to foster meaningful connections across schools, helping you build not only incredible projects but lifelong friendships with like-minded innovators you may not have met otherwise.
We are backed by some of the best VC firms in the nation such as Pear VC, Andreessen Horowitz, Soma Capital as well as founders/executives of billion dollar companies such as Alteryx, and Ring.