Data-as-a-Service: Running DaaS Companies

I’ve spent the last 13 years running data companies (previously LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) and now SafeGraph), investing in dozens of data companies, meeting with CEOs of hundreds of data companies, and reading histories of data businesses. Data is a growing business
One of the biggest themes in the last ten years has been products that help companies use first-party data better. The three pillars of data businesses: Acquisition, Transformation, and Delivery
SafeGraph’s President and co-founder Brent Perez always likes to remind me that there are only three core things a data company does:
1) Data Acquisition2) Data Transformation3) Data DeliveryFirst pillar: Data Acquisition is about bringing in raw materials
There are lots of ways for companies to acquire data and every data company needs to be very good at least one of the ways.

Source: blog.safegraph.com