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Jon Hyman

Co-founder & CTO, Braze. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Jon Hyman co-founded Braze alongside Bill Magnuson and Mark Ghermezian, overseeing its technical architecture, data pipelines, and engineering teams through its 2021 IPO. Before co-founding Braze, he worked as a software engineer within the Core Technology group at Bridgewater Associates.

What they said8 Shows1

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

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Collecting 99th percentile mobile app engagement data takes up to four weeks

“We've seen for some apps and this varies by app and by country and everything like that, it can take up to four weeks for us to get that 99th percentile of data collected.”

Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 5:22 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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Braze plans to self-host Elasticsearch on AWS rather than using managed service

“What we're doing is we're going to be running our own Elasticsearch instances ourselves that we can then fully configure and it'll just give us a lot more flexibility.”

Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 16:57 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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Hyman: Braze helps client brands reach over 1.25 billion monthly active users

“We're helping them engage more than one and a quarter billion monthly active users.”

Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 2:07 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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Braze processes 500 billion monthly data points to deliver personalized brand messages

“And the way that we do this is by processing nearly half a trillion pieces of data every single month, and then our customers, these marketing and growth and engagement teams of these brands, can then use that to personalize and send out tens of billions of me…”

Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 2:12 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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Jon Hyman says Braze processes about 100 megabytes per second through Kafka

“So the scale that we're operating at, we're pushing about a hundred megabytes per second through Kafka.”

Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 6:51 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)

MAD Insight

On-demand marketplaces must control promotion visibility to balance supply and demand

“These on-demand marketplaces, similarly like Lyft, it's challenging where you need to control the amount of people who can even see your promotional materials let alone who are acting on it.”

Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 9:17 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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Postmates uses Braze engagement data to adjust courier supply

“So Postmates can use this engagement data to then adjust the supply on their side.”

Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 9:26 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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Braze CTO: Failed push notifications are mostly caused by app uninstalls

“It actually is mostly attributed to uninstalls. When people uninstall your app, you can't send push to them anymore and so they end up bouncing.”

Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 13:30 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
MADLEDGER	Co-founder & CTO, Braze	1	8	—	full record on the MAD Podcast →