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No Priors · Thursday, August 27, 2026

Eon Co-Founders Highlight Data's Central Role in AI Era

Ofir Erlich and Gonen Stein, co-founders of Eon, emphasized that in the current AI-driven landscape, data is the most valuable asset for organizations. They contrasted this with compute and models, which they described as ephemeral with low switching costs. This perspective was highlighted by Google's recent $10 million acquisition of Spirit Airlines' data.

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if you are a company, whether you're a hotel chain, or your future technology company, it doesn't matter. The most valuable thing that you have is actually your data.
you saw Google, uh, uh, buy, uh, something from the, uh, uh, bankrupt, uh, Spirit Airlines. They didn't buy Apex. They bought data. They bought data for $10 million, because they think it's very important.
In that perspective, they're using it to train models.
Heard on No Priors — “Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein, published Thursday, August 27, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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