Not an exec but work in the geospatial data space.
Our company did an analysis of bid-stream data and came to the same conclusion that less than 10% of bid stream data is high quality.
Yep we know your company very well - we came to the same conclusions, even despite the heavy cleansing methods people purport to undertake it is still garbage!
Nice back-of-the-envelope analysis. But just wanted to let you know, the ARPU numbers are per quarter, not per year! For Q1’2018, from the official earnings report, has worldwide ARPU at $5.53 for that quarter. In US, for Q1, it was $23.59 ARPU.
A lot of the people featured in this story came from Microsoft. Folks at Microsoft/Facebook - any ideas as to why that is? Is it just that Microsoft is a huge and dominant institution in computing so probability wise a lot of people naturally would have backgrounds which came from Microsoft? Is it because Microsoft is (or were??) leaders in ML/AI and it is has recently become a FB focus area, so lots of hiring of Microsoft talent?
The article seems to posit that Facebook is structured in a way to much more quickly implement advances in the field into production than Microsoft. Microsoft attracted a lot of talent in the area but said talent gravitates towards whichever company is best suited to use their skills.
I think its similar in other areas, like storage... Lots of former Microsoft people at FB. Wondering how that impacted their culture, etc. over the last 3-5 years. They just recently opened a brand new office in Seattle also AFAIK.
Company sounds really cool and I am very interested - what's with the email address? is it that string you posted "aXRzYXVuaXhzeXN0ZW0raG5AaXRlcmFibGUuY29t" @ iterable.com?
I don't mean to antagonize, since any more detail would give away the answer -- but a qualified candidate should recognize various encoding outputs, even if they can't immediately identify the specific encoding scheme.
