What I find interesting about this article is that the author is the founder of Cloudera. Cloudera was one of the pioneers of the Hadoop ecosystem (and de facto data lake movements).
For the uninitiated, data lakes are used to centralize vast quantities of data - often consumer data - usually by large organizations and governments to provide insights and inform decisions within the organization. Some call this surveillance capitalism.
Cloudera IPO'd somewhere around $2B and was taken private in a deal led by KKR for around $5B.
Other than possibly loosing social capital, why does this surprise you? they are intimately familiar with the intricacies of how the technology is used to hoard and catalogue every aspect of our digital lives.
For the uninitiated, data lakes are used to centralize vast quantities of data - often consumer data - usually by large organizations and governments to provide insights and inform decisions within the organization. Some call this surveillance capitalism.
Cloudera IPO'd somewhere around $2B and was taken private in a deal led by KKR for around $5B.