Adam Laiacano

Everything Adam Laiacano said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

MAD Disclosure

Tumblr's email algorithm prioritized original content creators over rebloggers

“We want to give a little bit of bonus points to content creators, so if I post something and Hillary reblogs it from me, And these are both candidates to go into your email. Mine will show up instead of hers, because I came up with it.”

Adam Laiacano Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 7:47 Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

MAD Disclosure

Tumblr recommended blogs using social graph and post content

“At Tumblr, we try to recommend blogs to people. We use things like the Social Graph. Some of the content of your posts, things like that, to find blogs that you might like.”

Adam Laiacano Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 1:07 Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

MAD Assertion Supported

Tumblr hosted approximately 150 million blogs as of November 2013

“There's about a hundred and fifty million of them that we host now.”

Adam Laiacano Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 5:43 Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated

Tumblr's explicit post categorization yielded perfectly accurate content classification data

“If it's text, if it's a photo, whatever, so we can use this later on, and there's no predictions, there's no, oh, there's a photo in this thing, but we don't know if it's the main content of the post it's free, like, hundred percent accuracy prediction all the…”

Adam Laiacano Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 12:04 Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

MAD Assertion Partly supported

Video, audio, and photos were Tumblr's most popular post types

“So on Tumblr you can post seven different types of content. Video, audio, photos are by far the most popular links, things like that.”

Adam Laiacano Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 7:25 Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

The other half of the tape: Adam Laiacano's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 1 time in 1 episode across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Matt Turck 1

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Adam's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
MADLEDGER	Software Engineer, NVIDIA	1	5	50% 1/2	full record on the MAD Podcast →