
109: Ash Fontana, Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners
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Data Learning Effects - The Big Idea in the Book
A data learning effect is a new type of competitive advantage that's more powerful, i contend, than any other type of competitive ge out there. It requires those three things, critical mass of data, capabilities to process it into information, and a system that automatically learns over that information. And ino these systems make predictions and learn if their predictions are wrong or right by putting them out in the world. So the datalearning effect is really powerful. It's a newtype of competitive advantage, idifferent to a network effect, economies of scale. A machine learnd system that learns. All right, everyone with this attribute has a propensity to buy this product. Or every time we notice that