The interviewer says his buy-side firm paid for alternative data such as Twitter Firehose, which he recalls costing approximately $300,000 per month.

“But, uh, now I, I see that, and then, then I move to the buy side, where you start paying for alternative data, exactly like, like you, like you did.”

“Uh, we were actually one of the very first few at, at Balyasny to do the X Firehose or Twitter Firehose. Yeah.”

“And that, that's like something like a stupidly expensive, like, $300,000 a month, like, uh, data thing that you have to pay for to get all tweets, um, and- Used to be free... and you sort of parse them.”