Elprin: Highly sophisticated enterprise data teams often operate outside strict compliance walls
Nick (Domino Data Lab) · Lessons Learned from Advanced Data Science Orgs // Domino Data Lab [FirstMark's Data Driven] · Nov 9, 2016 · at 19:23
Nick Elprin, CEO of Domino Data Lab, explains why Domino's primary financial clients, such as quantitative research groups, rarely face internal regulatory walls.
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“I think that the folks who are doing sufficient, sufficiently sophisticated work to really want to use what we're doing tend to be in groups where they don't have those restrictions.”
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