Thought Leaders in Big Data: Adam Wray, CEO of Basho (Part 2)

Adam Wray: Let’s talk about healthcare and NHS. NHS is a health services organization in UK. They cover all the profile information for all 80 million citizens. That original project was held within an Oracle database. As they were continuing to expand the amount of data that they would collect and as they were capturing more

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Building an AI-Driven Sales Optimization Company: Vincent Yang, CEO of EverString (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What else is interesting strategically in how you’ve navigated the story so far? How many customers do you have now? Vincent Yang: I think we have four or five dozen customers. The growth rate is actually pretty fast. Sramana Mitra: What’s the pricing model? What’s the business model? Vincent Yang: The core of

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Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to Scale: Taso Du Val, CEO of Toptal (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What is the business model? Is it a commission-based business model? How do you charge? Taso Du Val: We take a percent of every single contract. Sramana Mitra: Are you still based in Budapest? Taso Du Val: No, I’m mostly based in New York and Moscow at the moment. That’s where I’m spending

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Future of Education: Three Conversations

There is a lot going on in the educational technology market. In our effort to bring you continued insights in that market, we would like to bring to your attention three recent roundtable discussions:

Catching Up On Readings: Millennials

Steven Rattner in this feature from New York Times looks at how the economy has affected life is for millennials. Even though they are the most educated generation, they face the prospect of earning less than their predecessors. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Adam Wray, CEO of Basho (Part 1)

Real-time, distributed data availability for Big Data use cases is a key issue. Here, we speak with Adam Wray about the nuances. Sramana Mitra: Let’s introduce our audience to yourself as well as Basho. Adam Wray: I’ve been raised in companies like Akamai and Limelight Networks. I actually worked for Amazon for several years before

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Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to Scale: Taso Du Val, CEO of Toptal (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s take that on a more granular basis. What year are we talking when you decided, two years in, to give up? Taso Du Val: That was probably around 2012. In 2012, we said, “Maybe we should figure something else out.” That was two years after we started the company. Sramana Mitra: Who’s

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Building an AI-Driven Sales Optimization Company: Vincent Yang, CEO of EverString (Part 5)

Vincent Yang: We use, what we call, topic modelling to analyze every single news. For example, is this company acquiring the other company? Is this news about conference sponsorship? How do we know how strong an implication is? We have no idea. That’s the point where we have to rely on machine learning. Machine learning

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