Nick Schrock

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

MAD Insight

Data orchestrators are the central leverage point for organizational data platforms

“We think this like orchestrator is really the central leverage point that makes sense to be the data platform.”

Nick Schrock Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 9:14 Fireside Chat: Nick Schrock (Founder & CEO, Elementl) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

MAD Insight

Data orchestrators must be productive developer environments, not just operational tools

“It's critical not to just think of it as a operational tool, but as a place where people can productively work.”

Nick Schrock Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 9:32 Fireside Chat: Nick Schrock (Founder & CEO, Elementl) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

MAD Insight

Data teams should focus on computation processes rather than physical datasets

“People think of data sets as physical things, right? Like a table and a database. Right. But in the modern world where you're really applying software engineering processes to data, all that data ends up being computed. And so what we thought really is that yo…”

Nick Schrock Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 10:48 Fireside Chat: Nick Schrock (Founder & CEO, Elementl) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

MAD Insight

Data tools should upskill analysts with engineering processes, not replace them

“The way to do this is not to try to remove analysts from the equation. The way to do this is to bring engineering processes into their life and, you know, so-called upskill them.”

Nick Schrock Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 25:49 Fireside Chat: Nick Schrock (Founder & CEO, Elementl) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

MAD Insight

Data operations require specialized software engineering rigor and tools

“What really needs to happen in this data space is the software kind of engineering of vacation of data. The acknowledgement that this is not an off outsourceable thing anymore, that this requires software engineering process specialized for the data domain and…”

Nick Schrock Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 2:54 Fireside Chat: Nick Schrock (Founder & CEO, Elementl) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

MAD Insight

Data challenges have shifted from compute scale to developer productivity

“An amazing engineering achievement happened in the early, you know, throughout the 2010, which was solving these massive pure technical scale problems. But now we're talking about organizational scale, dealing with complexity and dealing with developer product…”

Nick Schrock Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 5:08 Fireside Chat: Nick Schrock (Founder & CEO, Elementl) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

MAD Assertion Supported

Prefect founder Jeremiah Lowin launched it after facing constraints changing Airflow

“Jeremiah was a primary contributor to Airflow, wanted to make some changes, wasn't able to do so, and went and started went and started Prefect.”

Nick Schrock Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 20:21 Fireside Chat: Nick Schrock (Founder & CEO, Elementl) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

The other half of the tape: Nick Schrock'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 Abe Gong 1

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Nick'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 and CTO, Dagster Labs	1	7	100% 1/1	full record on the MAD Podcast →