Behind this metric: who pays the price for this interpretation? The idea that Guedj and Bouchaud's study defines the duration of future access to a Crunchbase dataset is indeed a weak correlation, as the real constraints are often related to internal data retention policies of companies, not forecasting horizons. A often overlooked point is that local data protection regulations, like GDPR in Europe, impose maximum retention periods for personal information, which can directly limit access and use of such datasets, regardless of any financial forecast.