May 26, 2017
When David Knight founded the data company terbine.com, he had big
plans. “We're not a broker, we're not an analytics firm, we're not
an IOT platform,” says Knight. Instead, terbine.com was designed to
be a global marketplace. Specifically, a marketplace for the data
from the internet of things—the first of its kind. “Not a modest
charter,” Knight says. There are literally petabytes of data from
the internet of things. And no one's indexed it or made it machine-
or human-searchable. Until now.
Fast approaching public beta, terbine.com has had to start small in
order to get big. As a friend of Knight's put it, “Well, we wanna
hear that you have the ambition to boil the oceans, but you need to
start with boiling a teapot.” A successful prototype in a smaller
market (the teapot) would determine the success of the later,
finished platform (the oceans). Because of this, picking the right
“teapot” was crucially important.
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