Abe Gong

Founder & CEO, Superconductive · 1 appearance on the record.

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Abe Gong is the founder and CEO of Superconductive. He is known for his work in data quality and the open-source project Great Expectations.

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3 assertions · 4 opinions · 3 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Abe argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Superconductive pivoted from healthcare analytics to open source around 2019
“We actually started in healthcare data analytics and deliberately pivoted the company to open source about two years ago now, when great expectations started to just really take on a life of its own.”
Abe Gong Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 21:27 Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Abe Gong: Great Expectations assertions execute consistently across Pandas, Spark, and SQL
“The kind of guarantee is any given expectation will execute in any of those environments and it'll execute consistently.”
Abe Gong Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 17:25 Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

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How they sound: speaking style how? →

268 words/min while actually speaking · 34.5 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Abe Gong: only 6 usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 6 raw tape exchanges is ≈4.5/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,917 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Abe Gong said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Gong is skeptical of anomaly detection approaches for data quality
“Frankly, I'm pretty skeptical of the anomaly detection approach.”
Abe Gong Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 8:17 Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Opinion
Abe Gong: No rival project has deeply invested in automated data documentation
“Data documentation is a thing that we consider a really important part of the project and frankly a technology that I don't think anybody else has invested deeply in building.”
Abe Gong Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 13:54 Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Abe Gong: Data quality has become a C-level issue for many companies
“Data quality has kind of bubbled up to the point where it's a C-level issue for a lot of companies”
Abe Gong Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 1:00 Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Insight
Abe Gong: Software tests are valuable because they make tacit knowledge explicit.
“You need tests because they make tacit knowledge explicit. They make it very clear what the system is intended to do.”
Abe Gong Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 8:31 Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Insight
Abe Gong: Great Expectations guarantees documentation reflects live data state
“Unlike the, like the classic outdated data wiki that most teams have lived with in the past with great expectations, as long as you're running your tests, you know, that your documentation actually reflects the current state of the data, which is kind of a gua…”
Abe Gong Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 15:04 Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Opinion
Abe Gong calls Hasura 'just add water GraphQL' for Postgres databases.
“It's just add water GraphQL for Postgres. So if you've got a Postgres database, then you can point Hasura at it and extremely quickly spin up a GraphQL API for it. And subscriptions, queries, mutations, like you get all of those things. It's all code gen. So t…”
Abe Gong Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 23:49 Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Insight
Abe Gong: Data teams must detect broken dashboards before stakeholders notice
“You can't always completely prevent the dashboard from breaking because it might be because of upstream data that you don't control, but at the very least you want to know about it before your stakeholders know about it.”
Abe Gong Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 3:39 Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Contradicted
Abe Gong: Great Expectations assertions execute consistently across Pandas, Spark, and SQL
“The kind of guarantee is any given expectation will execute in any of those environments and it'll execute consistently.”
Abe Gong Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 17:25 Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
Abe Gong: Superconductive will permanently keep open-source Great Expectations open
“You know, have committed, will always commit to keeping everything that's in open source, great expectations open.”
Abe Gong Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 22:16 Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Opinion
Gong: The data ecosystem critically needs a SQL linter like SQLFluff
“The other one that I, I'd point to that I haven't used deeply myself, but I just think is a thing that the world really needs is SQL fluff. SQL FL U F F. And it's a linter for SQL. And I'm just kind of shocked that we have got to 20 21 without there being a, l…”
Abe Gong Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 24:19 Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
Superconductive takes a fine-grained rules-based approach to data quality
“We've taken a very rules-based approach in the sense of declaring exactly what you expect of data you know, very fine grained detail.”
Abe Gong Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 7:38 Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Supported
Superconductive pivoted from healthcare analytics to open source around 2019
“We actually started in healthcare data analytics and deliberately pivoted the company to open source about two years ago now, when great expectations started to just really take on a life of its own.”
Abe Gong Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 21:27 Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMa Jun 21, 2021 18m
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