Steven Renwick

Unifying scattered customer data in real-time @TiloresHQ. Dundonian aber Wahlberliner.

[Steven Renwick @Major_Grooves]

.@SnowflakeDB is fast becoming the standard for enterprise data stacks - so I am excited about this integration we have built to bring @TiloresHQ entity resolution tech to Snowflake's data cloud.

Use it to identity unique entities (e.g. customers) across massive datasets. 💪

[Tilores @TiloresHQ]

Tilores and @SnowflakeDB - what a beautiful combination for identifying unique entities (e.g. customers) across one massive dataset. 😍😍😍

Read how our simple Snowflake integration works: https://t.co/oefzEPqj0j

[Steven Renwick @Major_Grooves]

Unexpected Greenpeace banner at AWS Summit in Hamburg 🤔

[Steven Renwick @Major_Grooves]

@SquidgeRugby video blocked already. :(

[Capo.dot 🎩 @CapoDotCapital]

Gavin Wood hasn’t posted on X in 5 months.

5 months.

And somehow nobody on his team has said a word about it.

In 2025, X isn’t optional for the founder of a crypto project. It’s the difference between people believing in what you’re building — or not even knowing it exists.
Narrative moves price just as much as technology does. Sometimes more.

Look at Vitalik. He posts constantly. Shares ideas, progress, opinions, random thoughts at 2am. People feel like they’re inside the process. They feel like there’s someone at the wheel with a vision and a voice.
Gavin? Total silence.

And this isn’t a small problem.
In crypto, founder silence reads as disinterest. As abandonment. As something being wrong behind the scenes.
It doesn’t matter that Polkadot is building superior technology. If the architect doesn’t speak, the market doesn’t listen.

The worst part isn’t that Gavin doesn’t post.
The worst part is that he’s clearly being advised by the wrong people. Someone in his inner circle should have flagged this months ago.
That says a lot about the team around him.

DOT’s technology is real. The interoperability is real. The ecosystem is growing.
But as long as the founder stays invisible on X, the price is going to keep reflecting exactly that — absence.

Vitalik understood that building in public is part of the job.
Gavin hasn’t figured that out yet.
Until that changes, $DOT will keep being an undervalued asset for reasons that have nothing to do with the tech.
Consider yourself warned.

[Steven Renwick @Major_Grooves]

I do find the anti-Palantir rhetoric pretty irrational.

It is pretty much mass hysteria - Palantir has been identified as the bogey man and everybody just piles in whenever they are mentioned.

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

@ZackPolanski - this is magnificent. Three things I can’t deny:

1. It is a video.
2. You are wearing a jacket.
3. Then you aren’t.
4. Then you are again.

Unfortunately that’s where the accuracy ends.

A few corrections for you:

Peter Thiel is not our CEO. Alex Karp is — and has been for 20+ years. (A lifelong Democrat, for anyone keeping score.)

We are not a “spyware company.” Spyware is malware. Malware is illegal. Calling a software company spyware is, technically, defamatory (don’t worry, we are not suing).

We don’t build surveillance technology. We build software that helps organisations make sense of data they already hold. Not the same thing.

There was no “private tour” of our HQ. There was a public photocall to which the media came. Hence, why there are so many pictures of the event.

Our MOD contract is not “the biggest defence contract in UK history.” Ajax armoured vehicles = £5.5bn. Dreadnought submarines = £31bn. We’re grateful for the work, but let’s keep a sense of scale.

We have no more access to NHS data than Microsoft has to the contents of your Word documents. I think you know this by now.

We don’t have access to patient medical records. Same story.

I agree that “nothing matters more than our health.” Which makes it worth reminding you of what Palantir’s software is actually doing in the NHS right now:

->110,000 additional operations
->15% fewer delayed hospital discharges
->7% more patients finding out within 28 days whether they have cancer

Respect again for what you did with that jacket.

[Steven Renwick @Major_Grooves]

@sebuzdugan @FullpathCDXP Agreed

[Tilores @TiloresHQ]

Why do 95% of Data & AI projects fail to deliver measurable business value, and what's actually going wrong?

https://t.co/1249cvHy1a

[Carahsoft @Carahsoft]

Big news! We are now working together with @TiloresHQ to deliver
real-time identity and entity resolution capabilities to Government agencies. Learn
how this collaboration helps agencies create unified, accurate views of people
and organizations: https://t.co/Bhiu3pXlFY @Major_Grooves

[Tilores @TiloresHQ]

Tilores has partnered with @Carahsoft to enable US Federal, State and local agencies to use Tilores real-time identity resolution technology to build complete, unified views of individuals and organizations.

https://t.co/eBaeMTzybo

[Steven Renwick @Major_Grooves]

@sawinyh identity resolution for the win! well done on making that bit work. It is not easy.

[Tilores @TiloresHQ]

Why do Graph Databases fail at Entity Resolution, and what should you use instead? https://t.co/iLtfL8brDU

[Steven Renwick @Major_Grooves]

@lily_mendz @gavofyork you are so right. 👏👏👏

Crazy that nothing is done about this.

[#Lily Mendz @lily_mendz]

.@gavofyork, how much do you trust your developers at Parity?

Just to be clear, I’m not suggesting they are inefficient or anything like that. So far, they’ve done a great job building the ecosystem.

But what happens in the hypothetical case that there are delays in the product they are developing (which is quite common in this industry), and there is no product release for another year or more?

Do you truly believe the ecosystem could withstand that?

I think there are some internal leadership roles that need to be filled and responsibilities divided among developers: some continuing to work on the future product, while others focus on delivering immediate solutions.

Why hasn’t a global campaign (by regions) been created to attract new developers to experiment, showing them what works now, and giving them proper support?

Why, even after three months, are we still seeing social media without a clear presence or a consistent content strategy that shows what we should expect from Polkadot in the future?

Who will still be around to witness the birth of these products if the ecosystem itself is failing to attract people to watch?

It’s like organizing a huge festival in a massive venue, but keeping the doors closed so that only the singers and security staff attend.

It’s time to step up and stop taking the easy path. This is simply a matter of coordination.

Come on, @Polkadot you can do better.

[Steven Renwick @Major_Grooves]

@polkarhythm @lily_mendz @gavofyork pretty sure it needs adoption. Polkadot so far is a classic example of "if we build it they will come" mentality.

Look at the adoption of Solana in comparison. They have an incredibly strong community approach.

Remember Betamax had better video technology that VHS...

[Steven Renwick @Major_Grooves]

@JPodhorsky @sachalansky @Web3foundation @solana he is kinda right though.

For actual adoption success, building the ecosystem and culture matter more than pure tech and performance.

Betamax was technically superior to VHS....

[Steven Renwick @Major_Grooves]

@Krayt78 @zaskoda @Polkadot @Orbiter8Game thanks for the explanation(s). This is pretty interesting.

Then your challenge is to get any game developer to be incentivised to put any part of the game (skins ownership, game records etc) onto a blockchain (DOT).

People default to familiar tech. A server is easy...

[Steven Renwick @Major_Grooves]

@zaskoda @Krayt78 @Polkadot @Orbiter8Game fwiw I know a company using blockchain (inc DOT iirc) in a real-world setting and one advantage of blockchain for them is that the blockchain Tx records are considered "trusted". It removes the need for a server to be audited as compliant.

[Steven Renwick @Major_Grooves]

@zaskoda @Krayt78 @Polkadot @Orbiter8Game should a game be designed to match a server/blockchain's transaction speed or should it not be the other way around?

I can imagine blockchain/DOT working for something like online chess. But then does it bring an actual advantage over a server?

[Steven Renwick @Major_Grooves]

@zaskoda @Krayt78 @Polkadot @Orbiter8Game ok layman's question here - what do you actually mean by "make a game work on chain"? What am I meant to imagine here as far as a "game" goes and why does a blockchain matter?

[Steven Renwick @Major_Grooves]

@andreasklinger @thekitze @levelsio I added him to a Twitter list of people who I would like to see post on Threads (i.e. a positive thing). The guy freaked out, blocked me, reposted a screenshot of my list, then had a whole bunch of sycophants jump in to criticise me.

Was one of my weirdest wtf moments online.