David Knight – Starting Small With Petabytes of Data

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When David Knight founded the data company terbine.com, he had big plans. “We're not a broker, we're not an analytics firm, we're not an IOT platform,” says Knight. Instead, terbine.com was designed to be a global marketplace. Specifically, a marketplace for the data from the internet of things—the first of its kind. “Not a modest charter,” Knight says. There are literally petabytes of data from the internet of things. And no one's indexed it or made it machine- or human-searchable. Until now.
Fast approaching public beta, terbine.com has had to start small in order to get big. As a friend of Knight's put it, “Well, we wanna hear that you have the ambition to boil the oceans, but you need to start with boiling a teapot.” A successful prototype in a smaller market (the teapot) would determine the success of the later, finished platform (the oceans). Because of this, picking the right “teapot” was crucially important.
Hit play to hear the rest of terbine.com's story, and learn more about the future of data in the internet of things.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:08.0	Future Technologies Voice to Transform Our Lives, for better or worse, are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here, means these technologies are now here and
0:16.7	starting to be used.
0:18.2	We're just around the corner.
0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:22.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:26.0	Hi, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast.
0:29.9	My guest today is David Knight, CEO, founder chief cook and bottle washer at turbine.com,
0:36.3	D-E-R-B-I-N-E.
0:37.9	David, how you doing?
0:39.1	Great, how are you?
0:40.3	Good, thanks for coming on the podcast, I appreciate it.
0:43.0	So, I've always found it is better to let the person that runs the company describe it
0:48.7	rather than me, you know, bumbling it.
0:50.8	So go ahead, tell people what turbine does please sure so turbine is a
0:55.2	relatively young company founded to create the first global marketplace for the
1:01.4	data from the internet of things. So not a modest charter and we've been
1:08.9	going for about two years now in relative stealth mode and we're very very close to actually going into a very
1:15.1	public beta of the product and so here we are. So what kind of data do you harness and
1:21.3	what what kind of internet of things devices are you looking at first and
1:25.6	what are you going to do with the data?
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