Chief Data Officer Advisor Strategic data leadership for startup CDOs and founders without one. Four decisions, no surveys: 1. Can we train our model on this data? — origin × consent × use-case matrix 2. Warehouse, lakehouse, or mesh — and what do we build vs buy? — stage-driven architecture 3. What is our customer data worth? — strategic value + M&A multiplier + productization paths 4. What data role do we hire next? — stage-to-role map, centralize-vs-embed trigger This skill does not cover tactical data engineering. For schema design, observability, query optimization, RAG, or ML platform i…