Matt Ober- Bridging Finance and Sports

Matt Ober is an extremely accomplished data leader turned venture capitalist. After leading Bloomberg's data operations for years, Matt served as chief data scientist for the $20 billion hedge fund Third Point, where he led development and implementation of data and analytics strategies for the entire firm.  He is currently general partner at Social Leverage, an early stage seed investment fund.

In this conversation, Matt shares how data practices from the financial world can apply in the world of sports, why AI will become just another part of tech stacks, the key difference between a winning and losing data organization, and what the best analysts will be doing 15 years from now.