Notes on the data market
Perspectives
August 2026
The asset missing from every Chapter 7 schedule
The schedules say nothing, the employees are gone, and the servers are still billing the estate. Where data hides, and when it disappears.
July 2026
Zero is not a valuation
Cost, comparables, and income all fail for data. What the 23andMe auction showed about models versus markets.
June 2026
Selling as is to buyers who price certainty
Labs price certainty, and estates sell as is. What diligence actually asks, and how a trustee closes the gap.
May 2026
Owning data is not permission to sell it
Privacy policies and consents survive bankruptcy and travel with the data. The question to ask on day one of the case.
April 2026
Look before you abandon
Read-only triage that reaches a fast answer: sell, abandon, or delete, with a record that protects the trustee.
March 2026
Buyers pay for answers, not archives
Who pays for preparation, when it should happen in the case, and why it is the highest-return work in the sale.