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Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

055: What‘s Big Data & What Can it do for You? Find out with Thoran Rodrigues of Big Data Corp.

Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

Millionaire Interviews Podcast & Sir Austin Peek

Careers, Business:careers, Business

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Thoran Rodrigues is the founder and CEO of BigData Corp which helps companies to automate the way they work with huge volumes of information. He has over a decade of experience in the Tech market in Brazil, having worked in places of all shapes and sizes, from university labs to consulting firms. In 2011, after almost a decade working for others, Thoran decided to open his first company. Today, he run BigData Corp., a four-year old startup which is one of the leaders in the Big Data market with clients all over the world. *** For Show Notes, Key Points, Contact Info, & Resources Mentioned on this episode visit here: Thoran Rodrigues Interview. ***

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0:00.0

what we do in the business today comes from work that I did when I was back getting my masters

0:05.5

and that was back in 2008 so it's almost 10 years ago that I started to your own.

0:18.4

You should pay more attention to the culture of fits than the technical skills.

0:22.4

We try to practice a culture of conflict of ideas as much as we can.

0:30.2

Understand that entrepreneurship and starting your own business is a long-term thing.

0:42.9

I'm a toy. I'm 34. Yeah, you kind of lose track of throughout.

0:48.4

You gave me your birthday so I can't confirm that. Yes, so I'm located in Brazil for the past four

0:57.0

and a half years now I've been running technology company down here. I worked for the longest time

1:03.0

in consulting. After a while I just said, you know, it's really good. It's a good job. It's nice,

1:09.5

but it's not one of what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. And then I quit my job and started

1:16.2

a company and running it for it. As I said, last four and a half years since 2013.

1:21.2

And what's the name of your company and what does it do? The name of the company is Big Data Corp.

1:25.5

And essentially what we do, well, the name is kind of self-explanatory. We work with Big Data,

1:30.8

but we work at a very specific part of the whole Big Data ecosystem, which is the data capture

1:41.2

and structuring side of things. So basically whenever you're doing some kind of Big Data work,

1:46.1

you want to do data analysis, you want to build a sophisticated model, you know, you want to develop

1:50.6

some artificial intelligence stuff. The job starts with the data. You have to get your hands on

1:56.6

very accurate, very well-behaving, well-defined, well-structured data to be able to train your models

2:03.5

and develop whatever you want to develop on top of that. And that's often a challenge, right?

2:07.3

People go and say, hey, everybody says all the time that there's all this information available

2:12.7

all over the world. But then when they actually want to get their hands on the information that's

2:17.6

available, they usually face a challenge. How do I find information about people, about companies,

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