115: What Is Production Grade Data? Featuring Ashwin Kamath of Spectre

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Ashwin’s background in the data space (2:43)
• The unique nature of working with data in finance (7:32)
• Technological challenges of working in the finance data space (13:55)
• The third-party data factor and judging if it is reliable enough (17:07)
• What made Ashwin decide to go out and build his own company? (31:47)
• Defining data decay and data storing and why both are important (37:52)
• Advice on the importance of data quality (42:10)
• Final takeaways and wrap-up (50:49)

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