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Brett A. Hurt is the CEO and Co-founder of data.world, the data catalog platform built for your AI future. Its cloud-native SaaS platform combines a consumer-grade user experience with a powerful knowledge graph to deliver enhanced data discovery, agile data governance, and actionable insights. Get fast, trusted access to your company’s knowledge when you create AI-powered data experiences with the AI Context Engine™. data.world is a Certified B Corporation and public benefit corporation and home to the world’s largest collaborative open data community with more than two million members, including 90% of the Fortune 500. Our company has 82 patents and has been named one of Austin’s Best Places to Work eight years in a row. Brett is also the co-owner of Hurt Family Investments (HFI), alongside his wife, Debra. HFI is involved in 142 startups, 46 VC funds, and multiple philanthropic endeavors.
Brett co-founded and led Bazaarvoice as CEO, through its IPO, follow-on offering, and two acquisitions. Bazaarvoice became the largest public SaaS (Software as a Service) business in social commerce and was named by the WSJ as one of the top IPOs of 2012 after becoming a unicorn. Brett also founded and led Coremetrics, which was rated the #1 Web analytics solution by Forrester Research and, like Bazaarvoice, expanded into a global company and leader. Coremetrics was acquired by IBM in 2010 for around $300 million.
In February, Brett was named the Batshit Crazy Entrepreneur of the year in Austin by Silicon Hills News. In 2022, he was recognized by Goldman Sachs as one of the Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs. In 2017, Brett was given the Best CEO Legacy Award by the Austin Business Journal. Brett is a Henry Crown Fellow and was a Braddock Scholar at the Aspen Institute. He began programming at age seven and doing so on the internet at age eighteen. His book, “The Entrepreneur’s Essentials”, is available both in print at Amazon and for free online at TheEntrepreneursEssentials.com (where you can also chat with it or listen to its AI-generated podcast).
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