I was toying with the idea of entering financial software, one company I was introduced to (Premise) was working on building crowdsourced economic data. They su

I was toying with the idea of entering financial software, one company I was introduced to (Premise) was working on building crowdsourced economic data. They surely make their money by selling this data to hedge funds, etc, but I see the overall mission of having a much more accurate and detailed view of prices and inflationary trends as being a noble goal in the world of finance. Better measures of inflation and other economic activity can markedly affect monetary policy and in turn affect the well being of billions of people.