"World of DaaS" YipitData CEO Vin Vacanti - why hedge funds dominate data usage (and corporations don't)
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Dec 9, 2025 Vin Vacanti, co-founder and CEO of YipitData, shares insights on why hedge funds outpace corporations in data utilization. He discusses the transformative impact of AI on data processing costs and how YipitData navigates messy consumer data to deliver actionable insights. Vacanti highlights the importance of combining datasets for business intelligence and critiques the limitations of competitor-tracking. He also emphasizes the need for founders to understand data economics and the evolving landscape shaped by AI-driven efficiencies.
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Value Is Problem-Solving, Not Data
- Data alone has no value; value comes from solving a specific business problem.
- Hedge funds use data more because they face daily decisions where data directly influences trades.
Sell Answers, Not Raw Data
- Deliver integrated insights, not raw inputs that force customers to do the heavy lifting.
- Make the backend work so customers get actionable answers for their business problems.
AI Makes Long-Tail Data Economical
- Alternative data is messy and costly to process at scale, so ROI focused YipitData on public tickers initially.
- AI now lowers cleaning costs, enabling reliable signals across millions of companies.