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I was Spotify’s first analytics lead. Here is what VCs get wrong about data
The article discusses the author's experience as Spotify's first VP of Analytics, implementing Hadoop for data tracking, and critiques venture capital (VC) for lacking data-driven decision-making, instead relying on hype and FOMO. The author highlights that most VC investments fail to return original capital and criticizes the lack of reflection on failed bets.
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