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Thani Shamsi: What Data Companies Can Learn From SaaS

Thani Shamsi
Thani Shamsi
Co-Founder/CEO
Datarade

January 10, 2023
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Thani Shamsi is the co-founder and CEO of Datarade, a Berlin-based data commerce platform.

Auren and Thani dive deep into the data market and discuss how it’s developed in comparison to SaaS. Thani shares his insights on how the most successful data companies drive sales and how expects the data space to evolve. 

World of DaaS is brought to you by SafeGraph & Flex Capital. For more episodes, visit safegraph.com/podcasts.

You can find Auren Hoffman on Twitter at @auren and Thani Shamsi on Twitter @ThaniShamsi.

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