Why are all these data companies buying internal data?
eeko_systems
30 points
15 comments
October 14, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (7 comments)
Legend2440
To train AI models on it? It's right in the headline.
totetsu
Ai training is the orifice through which everything is subsumed.
whatdowecallu
They scrapped the entire internet and need more
Pigo
If only I'd known that I should have been collecting as much minutiae as possible all these years...
chasebank
A friend of mine owns a few home health care businesses in the bay area. He said he's approached weekly and offered anywhere from $500k-2M for his data.
Delphiza
Wait until the market matures enough for underpaid or disgruntled employees being able to sell data easily.
DecoPerson
Well other than the new wave of trying to mine useful saleable insights using new AI tools, there has always been a demand for insider trading signal sources. If you can find data that predicts stock market movements consistently, even if those movements are slow, then you can beat the bond rates and obtain consistent returns (barring any stock market crash).