New York City

14 statements across 10 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2013 by Matt Turck · said 556 times in 192 episodes since 2013 · across every show →

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Everything said about New York City, oldest first

Dec 5, 2013 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Big data gave NYC an opportunity to build an engineering culture
“Well, I think that big data is our opportunity as a community to catch up quite a bit and becoming a very strong engineering place, and there's essentially, you know, several reasons for that.”
Matt Turck Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 20:38 Matt Turck, Bloomberg Ventures // Data Driven NYC# 3 // Feb 2012
Dec 5, 2013
Assertion Contradicted
Total real estate turnover in New York City is roughly $1.25 trillion
“The total overall property turnover is about 1.25 trillion, right?”
Mike Flowers Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 5:48 Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013
Dec 5, 2013
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
New York City mortgage fraud totals roughly $400 million annually
“Mortgage fraud is about four hundred million dollars a year in the city of New York.”
Mike Flowers Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 5:44 Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013
Dec 5, 2013
Assertion Partly supported
New York City has approximately 650,000 one- or two-family residential structures
“There's about 650,001 or two family structures in the city of New York.”
Mike Flowers Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 12:27 Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013
Dec 5, 2013
Assertion Supported
Cities historically measured 911 response times from dispatch, not call termination
“The city of New York has never, and no other city in the United States, or, you know, some of our larger counterparts in Europe that we were able to check with, ah, everybody does not do it from that. They do it from this. The moment of dispatch to the arrival…”
Mike Flowers Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 16:05 Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013
Dec 5, 2013
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
FDNY staff manually searched city websites while trucks rolled to active fires
“Every time a truck goes out to a fire what they do is they have five people basically searching city websites to find out what else the city knows about those locations.”
Mike Flowers Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 17:59 Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013
May 28, 2015
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Fusemachines deployed an AI customer service platform with NYC in 2014
“This is a system that New York City deployed. This is our system. They deployed it last year”
Sameer Maskey May 28, 2015 ▶ 6:36 Sameer Maskey, Fusemachines // Improving Customer Service (FirstMark / Data Driven NYC)
Jun 19, 2015 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Essas: OpenTable review data shows a major cauliflower trend in NYC
“For example, New York City, just looked, looked it up before I came to speak here there's a huge trend in cauliflower.”
Joseph Essas Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 14:53 Joseph Essas, OpenTable // Mining Diner Talk (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Jun 19, 2015 positive
Assertion Contradicted
NYC used building water flow rates to detect illegal overcrowding
“They did things like figure out what buildings to inspect which might be overcrowding by looking at max mix-ups between the stated building occupancy rates and the water flow rates.”
Gideon Mann Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 3:18 Gideon Mann, Bloomberg // Doing Good is Good Business (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Dec 8, 2016
Assertion Not checkable as stated
NYC apartments described as 'cozy' average 400 square feet smaller than normal
“If it says cozy, it is 400 square feet smaller than the average for that zip code.”
Hilary Mason Dec 8, 2016 ▶ 14:03 A Process for Discovery // Hilary Mason, Fast Forward Labs [FirstMark's Data Driven]
May 22, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
A major New York bank receives 1.2 billion text messages annually
“One big bank in, in New York City that we've been talking to gets 1.2 billion of these little text messages a year.”
Ben Vigoda May 22, 2018 ▶ 2:16 A New Approach to Machine Intelligence // Ben Vigoda, Gamalon (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Dec 5, 2018
Disclosure
RJMetrics moved HQ from New York City to Camden to afford rent
“We spent really conservatively, ah, the company actually moved from New York City and was headquartered in Camden, New Jersey. For a couple of years just to kind of be able to pay the rent.”
Bob Moore Dec 5, 2018 ▶ 5:08 $0 to $60M in 2 Years // Bob Moore, Crossbeam (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Apr 27, 2021 negative
Disclosure
Dev Ittycheria hired MongoDB's first CRO and CMO on West Coast
“In the early days when I joined actually my first CRO, my first CMO were actually on the West coast because I couldn't find enough depth and experience in New York city.”
Dev Ittycheria Apr 27, 2021 ▶ 8:47 Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
May 29, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Hebbia requires its 100 NYC employees to work in-office 5-6 days
“So we built a team of a hundred amazing incredibly smart folks all five days a week, sometimes six in office in New York city.”
George Sivulka May 29, 2025 ▶ 7:16 AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
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