Walmart

4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2013 by Kirill Sheynkman · said 34 times in 16 episodes since 2013 · across every show →

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Dec 5, 2013 neutral
Opinion
Sheynkman: Core corporate data is a competitive advantage and shouldn't be public
“There's certain things that are very proprietary and they should be proprietary, right? And I think that, that some of the data that Federal Express and Amazon and Walmart have, That's their competitive advantage, and why would they ever want to publicize it? …”
Kirill Sheynkman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 22:22 Kirill Sheynkman, RTP Ventures // Data Driven #3 // Feb 2012 (Interviewed by Matt Turck)
Apr 20, 2015 positive
Assertion Supported
Eifrem: Walmart uses Neo4j for real-time customer recommendations
“Walmart is is publicly using us to do real-time recommendations, where you look at the connections between all the customers and the product that, that they've used, and match that to similar similar people, and then do that in real-time, based on purchase his…”
Emil Eifrem Apr 20, 2015 ▶ 10:10 Emil Eifrem, Neo4j // Graphs Are Eating The World (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Mar 19, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Gourley: Primer counts GIC, Walmart, and US intelligence agencies as customers
“We've got some major customers that we can talk about, some that we can't but GIC is the biggest sovereign wealth fund out of Singapore. Walmart, obviously half a trillion of revenue, and also through our partnerships within Qtel we're deployed into a large nu…”
Sean Gourley Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 2:12 Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Oct 24, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Google BigQuery's largest customers never ran 100-terabyte queries, says Jordan Tigani
“The query sizes they were using was a hundred terabytes, and I remembered back from my time at BigQuery you know, we had some of the, Largest customers in the world. We had Walmart, Home Depot, Equifax, HSBC, you know, like, and nobody was using anything, you …”
Jordan Tigani Oct 24, 2024 ▶ 2:17 The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
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