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Eric (MemSQL)

Founder & CEO, Pomelo. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Eric Frenkiel is an entrepreneur who co-founded MemSQL (now SingleStore), a distributed real-time database company backed by Y Combinator. He currently serves as the Founder and CEO of Pomelo, a fintech platform providing credit-based international remittances.

What they said9 Shows1

Everything Eric (MemSQL) said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

MAD Opinion

MemSQL's Eric Frenkiel: Open source is a marketing channel, not business model

“I think open source is, is fantastic. It's a great marketing channel. I don't think it's a great business model.”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 10:57 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

MAD Insight

MemSQL's Eric Frenkiel argues analytics cannot be performed in key-value stores

“I mean I think, I mean, it's, you can't do analytics in key value.”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 13:29 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated

MemSQL's Eric Frenkiel argues on-premise infrastructure costs a fraction of AWS EC2

“I have a lot of you know, folks that spend tens of thousands of dollars a month on EC-II and they could do it for a fraction of the price if they did it on premise.”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 17:26 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

MAD Assertion Partly supported

Frenkiel: MemSQL on EC2 achieves 1ms latency vs 60ms for MySQL

“Whenever you go with MM-SQL on EC-II, for example, you will see, like, one millisecond response times, and a Postgres or a MySQL is on the order of 60.”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 18:26 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

MAD Assertion Contradicted

Eric Frenkiel criticizes MongoDB for relying on a global write lock

“Mongo also has a global write lock. So one writer will block everyone else until it completes.”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 35:15 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

MAD What-if

Eric Frenkiel: MemSQL would not exist if launched as an open-source project

“Fundamentally I don't think MemSQL would exist if we had to go into it the open source way.”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 11:34 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

MAD Insight

Eric Frenkiel: Writing a lightweight parser is easier than unstructured analysis

“What we typically see with unstructured data is it's far easier to write a lightweight parser around that log file, for example, and get it structured very readily.”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 20:49 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated

Frenkiel: Moving data from disk to memory yields a 50x speedup

“Just putting data from disk into memory, you'll see, you know, on the order of a 50 x improvement.”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 23:55 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

MAD Disclosure

MemSQL raised millions post-YC and stayed stealth for 15 months

“We were able to raise a couple million following the program. We shut up shop in San Francisco and then basically went stealth for 1415 months. Launched the product just this year in June”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 7:28 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

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

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
MADLEDGER	Founder & CEO, Pomelo	1	9	0% 0/2	full record on the MAD Podcast →