Ping Li: Incumbent enterprise tech vendors haven't innovated in a decade
Ping Li · Panel: Big data and VCs (Accel, IA Ventures, Data Collective) // Data Driven NYC #8// Oct 2012 · Dec 5, 2013 · at 21:50
Ping Li, General Partner at Accel Partners, addresses the opportunity for enterprise big data startups competing against legacy vendors at Data Driven NYC in 2012.
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“It's such a great time to be a startup right now because the incumbents are so far behind. They have not innovated, ah, in the last decade. And any of the big data dimensions are the applications, storage, the data layers.”
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