Johnson: Twitter holds an incredibly valuable but underutilized dataset
Mark Johnson · Every Business Will Need a Data Refinery // Mark Johnson, Descartes Labs (FirstMark's Data Driven) · Mar 2, 2018 · at 6:55
Mark Johnson, founder and CEO of Descartes Labs, discusses how tech companies build data refineries, criticizing Twitter's execution relative to its data potential.
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“I think Twitter is a great example where it's not that they're not doing nothing, they're not doing, they're doing some things with the data, it's just they could do a lot more. I think it's one of the most valuable data sets on the planet, but one would think then Twitter ought to be one of the most valuable tech companies if that's the case. And it doesn't seem to me they've done that.”
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