Factual’s Gil Elbaz Wants to Gather the Data Universe - NYTimes.com

Big plan for big data

"His time-machine plans, however, have been ditched for something he finds more important: trying to identify every fact in the world, and to hold them all in a company he calls Factual.
“The world is one big data problem,” Mr. Elbaz says from his headquarters, a quiet office 14 floors above the Los Angeles Country Club. He is a slim, soft-spoken man who weaves in his chair when an idea excites him. “What if you could spot any error, as soon as you wrote it? Factual is definitely a new thing that will change business, and a valuable new tool for computing.”"

Factual’s Gil Elbaz Wants to Gather the Data Universe - NYTimes.com