Fernandez: Klout refreshes scores daily for 300M people
Joe Fernandez · "The Business of Data" Panel // October 2011 · Dec 5, 2013 · at 12:17
Joe Fernandez, co-founder and CEO of social influence rating platform Klout, discusses scaling data pipelines at the Bloomberg Link conference in October 2011.
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“When Cloud launched, we had data, we had scores on less than 2000 people when we publicly launched, and now we have scores on three hundred million people that we refresh every day”
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