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by TrickyRick 3239 days ago
Investing billions of dollars in companies and paying employees crazy salaries simply because their title contains the word "data", how is there no way to collapse that? One day the time comes to reap the reward and when the rewards are a lot smaller than expected funding will be withdrawn or at the very least scaled back.
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Honestly? Data works. It makes companies billions of dollars. Machine learning and AI are getting increasingly good at parsing the data that already exists. It makes sense that companies, who have always made money on data, would invest in something that promises to make them even more money, and has demonstrated the ability to do just that.
Where are all of these companies paying crazy salaries simply because their title contains the word data?