How tech businesses will change in 5 years — Tarush Aggarwal // 5x

Tarush Aggarwal, Founder and CEO of 5x, talks about how to transition to being a data company. Macro platforms like Facebook and Google are starting to lose their dominance. To smaller, niche providers. Ultimately, it's becoming harder for Google and Facebook to understand all of the different data sources and be as relevant as they used to be just a few years ago. Today, Tarush discusses how tech businesses will evolve in the next five years.
About the speaker

Tarush Aggarwal

5x

 - 5x

Tarush Aggarwal is Founder and CEO at 5x

Show Notes

  • 01:48
    The evolution of the digital transformation ecosystem
    In the past, focusing on go-to-market itself was a competitive advantage. Today, the competitive advantage lies in using data to provide better customer experiences and attract more target customers.
  • 03:40
    Macro platforms losing power
    Google and Facebook arent as dominant, relevant, or contextual as they used to be. Instead, theres a preference for smaller, niche providers who are able to do one thing really well.
  • 06:45
    Third party depreciation and its impact on tech businesses in the next five years
    Getting rid of third-party cookies is unlikely to impact marketers as much as people think. Whats likely to happen is consumers having more choices and ultimately more control over their personal data.
  • 10:28
    How machine learning will change over the next five years
    Currently, machine learning companies are focused on infrastructure and tooling. Data, infrastructure, data modeling, reporting needs to be in place or doing machine learning will be difficult.

Quotes

  • "Three years ago, Facebook and Google were a lot more dominant in terms of analytics. Now, companies have a lot more data sources and it's becoming harder for Google…used to be a few years ago." - Tarush Aggarwal

  • "We no longer want one platform to go and do everything. As consumers, today, we much prefer a small niche provider which can do one thing really well." - Tarush Aggarwal

  • "The cookie conversation, data, selling and privacy is going to eventually lead to a model where we have more choices and more flexibility." - Tarush Aggarwal

About the speaker

Tarush Aggarwal

5x

 - 5x

Tarush Aggarwal is Founder and CEO at 5x

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