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In an era of data abundance, the main risk is opportunity cost
“The real danger in an era of abundant data is really opportunity cost. If you spend too much time playing with a data set that you can't extract value from, you missed an opportunity to play with another data set that you might actually get value from.”
Find a problem worth solving before searching for data
“So go hunting for the data after you've figured out a problem that's worth solving, because God forbid you spend a ton of time with data and find out that there was nothing useful there, or the problem that you can solve with that data actually isn't that inte…”
$18 trillion worth of goods crosses global borders annually
“18 trillion dollars worth of stuff goes across borders every year.”
Panjiva has approximately 2,000 paying customers
“We have about 2000 customers that pay to access the Pangeva platform.”
Panjiva spent months building a proprietary customer rating that users rejected
“We had this notion that we would build something called the Pangeva rating, where we would look at a bunch of different attributes of companies based on all the shipping data, and we would, ah, put a rating on that company. And we spent months working on this.…”