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After reading the revenue figures, the sale is a lot less outrageous than the title makes it sound.
by siruncledrew 8y ago
After reading the revenue figures, the sale is a lot less outrageous than the title makes it sound.
- Kpourdeilami 8y agoUnless their product is extremely manual and depends on hiring on a bunch of engineers to train models for each customer
- disgruntledphd2 8y agoFirstly, you'd probably want 50% data people, 50% engineers to make that work acceptably. Secondly, that kind of stuff is totally viable to throw automated grid-search at, especially if you've just been acquired by a profitable company. Finally, I reckon that the comment upstream about GDPR is probably correct. Suddenly facing way harsher terms for 30% of revenue (assuming standard breakdowns) is double-plus ungood, which may have sparked this. To be fair, if I were them, I'd totally have taken the money and ran.