Salesforce estimates 'bad data' costs US businesses 7 billion dollars annualy. We sat down with 'Live Data Technologies' President/CEO J. Scott Hamilton to hear what are the ways to avoid this predicament.

We are joined by Jeffrey Stein of deepdiscovery.ai to learn how AI startups are making a positive impact on society's burning issues using big data. Jeffrey shares his roots in social activism and what led him to the concept of Artificial Intelligence for social good (02:30). Then we learn how deepdiscovery's AI creates risk assessment scores empowering banks, journalists, law enforcement and government agencies in their fight against money laundering and global corruption (13:00). Finally, we dive into some fascinating examples of how data plays a role in major investigations such as the 'Panama files' leak and Iran-Russia-Venezuela shadow economy ring (30:30). 

Beleal (Ben) Zarrour of MarketX ventures joins us to discuss his passion for ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) factors when sourcing investments as a millenial finance expert. Together with our co-hosts we find out how impactful can web data collection be on what companies are eventually funded and trusted by younger generations.

Our hosts are joined by investment manager Daniel Rix-Standing of EMK Capital for an eye-opening introduction to how data-driven firms optimize their private company investment sourcing using alternative web data.

Bright Data (Formerly Luminati Networks) CEO Or Lenchner joins our co-hosts Phil and Omri and shares his unique story about how he joined the company in the first place. Together they discuss the creative ways in which smart investors leverage Alt-Data to gain a competitive edge and how 2020 ushered a massive digital transformation in retail. Finally, Or details his continuous efforts to establish proper regulation for the data collection market. **Bonus** - where can you buy the best T-shirts online in 2021?

In this episode, our co-hosts Phil and Omri invite Josh Vanderwillik to discuss his role as product manager in charge of the crown jewel of Bright Data's innovations - the Data Collector. Together they discover that clients can be the best mentors for a SaaS company and explore why web scraping is becoming increasingly challenging in 2021. **Bonus** A full-fledged Skype rant by Josh.