Bobby Castro: data needs people who can use it

Asked for a strategy he wished he had received earlier, Bobby Castro answered with data. He then made the answer more specific: he needed people who knew how to work with it.

Collection was one part of the change

Castro discussed gathering and receiving data, then described teaming up with people who could digest it. He connected those skills with understanding where to take the business.

The staffing question followed the information

Later in the conversation, Castro returned to the same problem. A company could have data and still have a staff that did not know what to do with it. He named executive functions as part of the staffing changes he recalled making.

In Bobby Castro's words

"I needed to team up with people that understood how to digest" (Bobby Castro, Billionaires.com interview conducted by Samantha Guthrie)

How to use this

Identify the decision a data set is supposed to support.
Check who on the team can turn the information into an operating decision.

Questions and answers

What did Castro add to his answer about data?

He said he needed people able to interpret and use it.

Did Richard ask these questions?

The recording identifies Samantha Guthrie as the interviewer.