data flywheel

Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning From It

by Brian Dumaine  · 11 May 2020  · 411pp  · 98,128 words

, 35 Bezos, MacKenzie, 7, 30, 38–40 Bezos, Mike, 32–33, 251 Bezos Family Foundation, 251–52 Bharara, Vinit, 184 big data. See also customer data flywheel model and, 5, 88 societal and ethical challenges of, 90–91 black box phenomenon, 91, 147 Black Swan, The (Taleb), 30 Blodget, Henry, 62, 65

Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China's ByteDance

by Matthew Brennan  · 9 Oct 2020  · 282pp  · 63,385 words

user’s profile is enriched further and further to the point where a fully accurate and detailed interest graph has been formed. Above: The core data flywheel of ByteDance’s content platforms. Another limitation of their system was the necessary human element. Toutiao claimed to be a purely technology-driven company, doing

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the app was for. If they could get a user to try them out from a pre-install, they had a chance to get the data flywheel going, enrich their user profile, and start surfacing personalized content. If the user picked up the habit of using Toutiao, they typically didn’t delete

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

by Karen Hao  · 19 May 2025  · 660pp  · 179,531 words

data from the people using them: “New in 2021: we emphasize deploying models as products and learning from user interaction, as it can be a data flywheel that can lead to vast capability improvements.” Under another section, titled “Details,” the document rationalized why this approach made both scientific and business sense. OpenAI

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product launch but a “low-key research preview,” just like DALL-E 2. In the same way, it wouldn’t be monetized but “get the data flywheel going”—in other words, amass more data from people using it—which would help improve GPT-4 and the Superassistant product. Outside of the Superassistant

Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

by Diane Coyle  · 11 Oct 2021  · 305pp  · 75,697 words

entry, the vast troves of data big platforms acquire and store about their users. These give rise to a self-reinforcing process, sometimes called the data flywheel or the data loop. If you are a big company providing a great service, you win a lot of customers. If you accumulate their data