Hjalmar Gislason (Halmar)
Founder and CEO, GRID. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Hjálmar Gíslason founded DataMarket in 2008, which was acquired in 2014 by Qlik, where he subsequently served as Vice President of Product Management. In 2018, he founded GRID, a SaaS company developing technology at the intersection of spreadsheets, web documents, and AI.
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Everything Hjalmar Gislason (Halmar) said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Gislason: Hadoop and NoSQL are poor for quantitative data aggregation
“Actually we found that Hadoop and most, kind of, no, no SQL solutions are not very good for, kind of, quantitative data when you need to aggregate and, kind of, go across these things.”
DataMarket failed at freemium but succeeded with high-priced direct enterprise sales
“We had a hard time giving our solution away, but then it turns out we can sell it for a lot of money if we sit down with the right people.”
Gislason: Data startups must sell solutions, not big data itself
“Nobody's selling big data solutions. We're selling solutions that use big data kind of technologies, and you have to frame that differently for kind of, you know, depending on who you're talking to.”
Gislason: Research organizations buy data tools for revenue, not labor savings
“We've found it's impossible to sell this to research organizations on the merits that it will save work internally. It, you know, we have to make the argument that it will bring in more revenue”
DataMarket will adopt D3.js once IE7 and IE8 market share drops
“For the technical guys in the room, moving from Protovis, which, what, which is what we've built our stuff on, and made compatible to Internet Explorer seven and eight, which is about 20% of the business traffic on the web still, ah, to D three in probably a c…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Hjalmar's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 MADLEDGER | Founder and CEO, GRID | 1 | 5 | 0% 0/1 | full record on the MAD Podcast → |