During a discussion led by the Metabase team, Amogh Sarda from Eesel and Ali Baghshomali from Mentat Analytics shared data tracking challenges faced by startups, focusing on event management and tool selection. The conversation highlighted the complexities of event tracking in startups, where changes in product features can necessitate updates in event names, leading to a dilemma between missing data or expending significant resources to maintain accurate tracking. The introduction of universal tracking, which captures all click-related data without extensive manual input, offers a streamlined solution but can result in messy data with less specific event properties. To mitigate issues, a hybrid event management approach combining automatic and manual tracking is recommended, along with integrating analytics into the product development cycle to ensure each feature's tracking needs are pre-planned. Additionally, the discussion touched on the evolution of data management tools in startups, transitioning from basic setups like Google Sheets to more sophisticated tools like Metabase and Mixpanel as the user base grows and data needs become more complex, emphasizing the importance of having SQL expertise within the team to fully leverage advanced data stacks.