Brett Hurt began programming at age 7 and has founded and led six startups, including Coremetrics ($300m exit), Bazaarvoice ($1b exit), and now data.world ($60m raised so far), which is a Certified B Corporation. He also co-leads Hurt Family Investments with his wife, Debra, and has helped back 85 startups and 27 venture capital funds.
Analytics + Data
Get Ready for the Semantic Web
At linked data-driven companies you will find it difficult to distinguish between “traditional” data workers and those in other functional areas who, at other companies, are less reliant on data.
Analytics + Data
If Your Company Has Data, Consider “Donating It”
A growing number of companies are finding ways to become "corporate data philanthropists." Your company may have data that can be released for public benefit. Data donation leverages the power of the crowd: more people to analyze it, test hypotheses, create new knowledge, detect patterns, and use it for social innovation.
Analytics + Data
The United States of Data II: The New Knowledge Trust
Data is transforming not only our institutions, but out relationship to them. It's also transforming out relationship to each other. Access to data and its interpretation will inform our notions of injustice, inequality, fear, want, need and our perceptions of our abilities to address them. How should we be approaching the issue of access, ownership and value of data? Do we have the institutions we need?
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Techonomy 17
“The idea that fake news on Facebook…influenced the election in any way, I think is a pretty crazy idea,” said Mark Zuckerberg onstage at Techonomy 2016. He has subsequently recanted.
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Techonomy 16
MANkind’s evolving relationship with tools and MACHINES is nothing new. But the speed at which we, and everything around us, are becoming more closely connected and NETWORKed is.
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Techonomy 15
Technology as scapegoat has driven fears since at least the industrial revolution. That is as true as ever today, with fears of privacy intrusion, our devices inducing inattention, withdrawal from human contact into screens, job-killing robots, and innumerable business models being destroyed.
