Garg: Food companies should hold the most consumer data of any industry
Ushma Garg · a16z Podcast | The Data Science of Food and Taste · Jan 2, 2019 · at 2:37
Ushma Garg, founder and CEO of meal-kit delivery startup Gobble, explains how high daily interaction frequency allows food companies to collect rich customer data.
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“In my opinion, you know, people eat food three times a day. If any company should have the most data or insight into who a person is, it should be a food company.”
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