Big in Japan (Data)

In this episode, Devin and Jim rewind to 2014 — and a $12 bottle of Cabernet at the Macaroni Grill — where they hatched the plan to leave their firm and build a new private equity firm from nothing. This is the insider's guide they wish they'd had. 

It's our annual Predictions episode (and by annual, we mean just the years we remember to record one). Devin and Jim offer their hot takes on fundraising, liquidity, why artificial general intelligence (AGI) is still years away, and whether or not the world is officially "over-so ... Show More

Devin sits down with Funcast listener and Terem Capital CEO Scott Middleton. Terem is a software holdco in Australia, and Scott shares his strategy, investment criteria, sourcing approach, and the difference between US holdcos. 

This week, NYU Stern School of Business finance professor Aswath Damodaran, joined to talk about why corporate earnings reports and regulatory filings keep getting longer, and why it's not necessarily a good thing for investors. Professor Damodaran explained why he thinks we are ... Show More

<p>At the end of every year, you’re probably asking the same questions we are. What are the big changes coming next year? How do I stay ahead of them? And what’s separating real trends from the hype?</p><p>To answer these questions, we are excited to bring together some of the to ... Show More

<p>Data is transforming how we think about life, work, business, healthcare, education, and everything in between. Meet the world’s top data and analytics leaders bringing this data revolution to life.</p> <p>In each episode of The Data Chief, host Cindi Howson, Chief Data Strate ... Show More

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by Danny Wallace, mathematician Hannah Fry and science writer Timandra Harkness. They'll be going big on Big Data, and asking just how big is it? They'll be looking at where Big Data comes from, should we be worried about it, and what ... Show More

<p>What keeps a data pro at one company for almost thirty years? On this episode of The Data Chief, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pascale-hutz-79aab742/">Pascale Hutz</a>, the Chief Data Officer and EVP of Enterprise Digital & Data Solutions at <a href="https://www.america ... Show More

In June 2019, over 200 data scientists gathered at Viacom HQ in New York to hear key industry players’ takes on what makes an effective data-driven strategy. Q McCallum, Senior Content Adviser at Formulated.by, took a deeper dive into the major topics of concern for data science ... Show More

<p>Federal Reserve officials like to call their decisions “data dependent.” Business leaders say it a little differently, often “data driven.”</p> <p>All well and good but does anyone really say otherwise? “To say you prefer seat-of-the-pants guesswork” doesn’t typically impress ... Show More

‘Big data’ is a hot term these days, but do you know what it means? Learn here. 

My guest this week is Auren Hoffman. Auren is the CEO of Safegraph, which curates data on physical locations. He also founded LiveRamp, a public data connectivity business. Auren knows more about data businesses than almost anyone I know and that is the topic of today’s discussio ... Show More