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Johnson: Every business will need a data refinery
“Every business is going to need a data refinery.”
Johnson: Twitter holds an incredibly valuable but underutilized dataset
“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…”
Johnson: Corporate data hoarding will diminish over the next decade
“So I think for right now most companies are going to keep their data incredibly proprietary. But I expect that to change maybe, maybe not in the next year, but certainly in the next five to 10 years.”
Descartes Labs expects daily data ingestion to exceed 100 terabytes
“Now, recently we're putting a lot of proprietary data sets on the system also that's why we'll go from 15 terabytes a day this year to a lot more. Probably over, well over a hundred.”
Cargill is an investor and client of Descartes Labs
“And, you know, Cargill now is an investor and a client.”
Johnson: Field-level yield is the most valuable dataset in agriculture
“When I think about the most valuable data sets you could possibly have for agriculture it's field level yield. That is, how many bushels per acre are coming out of this field?”
Space 2.0 startups are betting on commercial clients over government revenue
“If you look at the new crop of space two dot O companies, Descartes Labs, Planet, Spire companies like this, we're all betting on commercial.”
Johnson: $1 billion will flow into satellite infrastructure over coming years
“It turns out there is a billion dollars of investment going into satellites over the next few years.”
Descartes Labs maintains a 10-petabyte data archive
“And we have over 10 petabytes of data in the archive.”