one of the benefits of having an odd name is that it is very unlikely you will share a name with a major hurricane - Auren Hoffman

The most important business skill in the next hundred years is the ability to select and manage vendors
... but there are no good books or bschool courses on it

you should never use software that is older than you are

determining data quality takes a lot of work ... and that really slows down the data sales process.

one area most data companies can do a better job in is transparency. most data companies don't even publicly publish their schema, their fill rates, or have an open docs site. that is going to be table-stakes for having a data company in the future.