one of the most frustrating things is seeing people that clearly are not reaching potential because they are not working hard enough - Auren Hoffman

if data is the new oil, then unstructured data is shale.

because unstructured data is becoming easier and easier to work with

have ever you noticed that the rich people have the least comfortable couches?
wealth and couch comfort are inversely correlated

Great data companies look like the ugly child of a SaaS company (like Salesforce) and a compute service (like AWS).

DaaS companies have their own unique lineage, lingo, operational cadence, and more. They are an odd duck in the tech pond.