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Alex Hawkinson

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

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Alex Hawkinson is the co-founder and former CEO of the IoT platform SmartThings, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014. He currently serves as the founder and CEO of BrightAI, developing sensor networks and robotics for critical infrastructure.

6statements → 5claims → 2claims resolved → 3.83/5average certainty → 1.83/5average debate potential →

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 predictions · 2 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 3 name 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 Alex 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
Hawkinson: IoT devices cost $2-$5 to connect with 1,000-foot range
“Lots of standards so that you can now connect the device for two to five bucks and have a range of a thousand feet and battery life of two years, checking in every five seconds.”
Alex Hawkinson Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 1:53 Panel Discussion // NYC Data Business Meetup // May 2013

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Hawkinson: Average consumer spends $5,000 yearly on home and auto insurance
“The average consumer spends five grand a year on home and auto insurance.”
Alex Hawkinson Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 26:16 Panel Discussion // NYC Data Business Meetup // May 2013

How they sound: speaking style how? →

279 words/min while actually speaking · 23.8 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Alex Hawkinson: no 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.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,733 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 Alex Hawkinson said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hawkinson: Open IoT platforms will succeed and force closed systems open
“There's enough reasons to sort of have an open, connected platform, in our view, that it will drive to be commercially successful. So it'll sort of Certainly be there alongside some of these closed efforts, and I think ultimately it'll sort of force a lot of p…”
Alex Hawkinson Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 10:13 Panel Discussion // NYC Data Business Meetup // May 2013
Assertion Supported
Hawkinson: IoT devices cost $2-$5 to connect with 1,000-foot range
“Lots of standards so that you can now connect the device for two to five bucks and have a range of a thousand feet and battery life of two years, checking in every five seconds.”
Alex Hawkinson Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 1:53 Panel Discussion // NYC Data Business Meetup // May 2013
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hawkinson: 5-to-10-year opportunity for hardware differentiated by connected services
“There's an enormous opportunity for the next five to 10 years to sort of build new types of connected objects that are differentiated through the, what they, what you can do with the connected apps and services.”
Alex Hawkinson Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 22:25 Panel Discussion // NYC Data Business Meetup // May 2013
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hawkinson: Virtual reality won't be plugged into, but will merge around us
“Virtual reality won't be something you plug into. It's sort of more like it's just going to merge around us”
Alex Hawkinson Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 29:44 Panel Discussion // NYC Data Business Meetup // May 2013
Disclosure
Hawkinson: SmartThings built hub technology allowing home automation to run offline
“So we've, Created a technology we call wiring internally. It's actually one of our patent claims, but the, ah, you know, it's a lot of thought to how you create an abstracted app in the cloud, but that the hub, it knows what portions can be executed locally, a…”
Alex Hawkinson Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 36:40 Panel Discussion // NYC Data Business Meetup // May 2013
Assertion Contradicted
Hawkinson: Average consumer spends $5,000 yearly on home and auto insurance
“The average consumer spends five grand a year on home and auto insurance.”
Alex Hawkinson Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 26:16 Panel Discussion // NYC Data Business Meetup // May 2013

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Panel Discussion // NYC Data Business Meetup // May 2013 Dec 5, 2013 11m
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