Weekly DaaS Roundup for August 29

NEWS, READS AND MORE

Small-cap DaaS companies underperform in Q2 by World of DaaS

With earning season wrapped up, we went through the earnings calls of publicly traded DaaS small caps. Cool to see AI start making an impact on the bottom line.

Data Marketplaces in a LLM World by Alex Izydorczyk

Will AI finally fix the flaws that have plagued data marketplaces for far too long?

Meta’s crawler quietly scraping everything by Kali Hays (Fortune)

The whack-a-mole game of content owners vs LLMs continues. “While close to 25% of the world’s most popular websites now block GPTBot, only 2% are blocking Meta’s new bot”...for now.

Criteo seeks new CEO by Ronan Shields (Digiday)

The company is one of the Q2 earnings standouts, their stock $CRTO is up 84% YTD. That’s a tough act to follow.

🎧THE LATEST WOD PODCAST 🎧

Bryan Caplan - The Signaling Game in Education & Parenting

Economist and writer Bryan Caplan brings the heat with some contrarian (but data backed) thoughts like:

📉 education has bad ROI for society

🚁 parenting isn’t that important

🔑 there’s a simple process for success

World of DaaS is now officially a 30K+ sub channel on YouTube! We started the year 7K strong. Who knew there were so many data nerds enthusiasts out there!

M&A AND FUNDING

BONUS: COOL DATA SETS

Startup Fundraising Pitch Deck Metrics

Docsend has been aggregating stats on how many pitch decks are created, how long people look at them and more. If you’re sending decks to investors today, as of last week - the average time that’s spent reading them is a few seconds north of 2 minutes. In years prior that figure was closer to 3.5 minutes. Power of brevity?

RANDOM ART(TIFICIAL HALLUCINATION) OF THE WEEK