Hi all,<p>Over the past few months I have been building a data pipeline that extracts quotes and assigns them to company executives, using natural language processing (spacy).<p>I am focusing on the tech industry right now which I know pretty well (I used to work at CB Insights). Every Wednesday I put together a newsletter featuring interesting quotes and explain why they matter.<p>Eventually, Oversaid will be a platform that lets you search quotes yourself and come up with your own analysis, but I wanted to launch something early while I build out the product so that I can learn from prospective customers.<p>I'm having a lot of fun writing these up and I hope you enjoy reading them!<p>Here's the last email I sent: <a href="https://mailchi.mp/ab609ce94c60/bill-gates-gives-bezos-some-space" rel="nofollow">https://mailchi.mp/ab609ce94c60/bill-gates-gives-bezos-some-...</a>
Sorry in advance for the rather harsh feedback, that follows. It’s basically my unfiltered impression when I visited your site before reading your introduction comment here.<p>This is one of the occasions, when I love the German “every website needs a ‘Who’s responsible for this?’ page” law (a.k.a. “Impressumspflicht”). Why should I trust your specific selection of quotes and their interpretation? You even don’t trust your visitors with a “Who are we?” section. For all I know, this could be a Chinese or Russian troll factory outlet sale.<p>For this to work (for me, at least) you need to work _way_ more on the site’s transparency than a more or less default privacy disclaimer and an e-mail input form: Who am I, what criteria and sources are used for the quotes, how are they categorized, what do I do to prevent bias... The technology may as well be sound and state-of-the-art, but if I don’t trust the website, I won’t sign up to anything.
Love this idea. And congrats Alex - CB Insights Mafia!<p>Things that I think folks (aka me) would find interesting:<p>1. Impressions/views on tech markets (what they're entering, their views on growth of markets, etc)<p>2. Views on competition esp if they talk isht<p>3. Quotes with data. Because some of these products by tech cos are opaque with stats, if execs drop a figure about growth, that's valuable.<p>4. Over time, it'd be cool if you could see what products execs talk about in their public comments as that might give an indication of what they're focused on. Suspect they might not talk a lot about specific products so perhaps wishful thinking.<p>IMO, personally, I think quotes on politics are boring mainly cuz that doesn't give insight into the biz and cuz politics is already everywhere.<p>Enjoying the emails so far and look forward to seeing where Oversaid goes<p>Congrats again.