Van de Maele: Digitally native companies often lack orderly data
Felix Van de Maele · Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark) · Mar 17, 2022 · at 9:51
Felix Van de Maele is the co-founder and CEO of Collibra. He reflects on the target customers for Collibra's data governance platform and common misconceptions about tech-native organizations.
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“You'd be surprised that some of those digitally native companies, very data first companies, you would think they have all of the data in order as definitely far from the truth.”
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