Sheynkman: Core corporate data is a competitive advantage and shouldn't be public
Kirill Sheynkman · Kirill Sheynkman, RTP Ventures // Data Driven #3 // Feb 2012 (Interviewed by Matt Turck) · Dec 5, 2013 · at 22:22
Kirill Sheynkman, Senior Managing Director at RTP Ventures, responds to an audience question at Data Driven NYC about whether corporations should open up trapped proprietary data.
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“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? It's not because they're being greedy and, you know, it's, it, that's it.”
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