Amir Orad

CEO, Kraken Technologies · 1 appearance on the record.

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Amir Orad is an enterprise software executive who leads Kraken Technologies, having previously served as CEO and Executive Chairman of business intelligence and analytics company Sisense. Earlier in his career, he served as CEO of financial crime compliance firm NICE Actimize and co-founded cybersecurity company Cyota, which was acquired by RSA Security.

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6 assertions · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 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 Amir 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
Orad: CPU registers are the fastest hardware unit for analytics
“The fastest performing unit for analytics on the planet is the register inside the CPU.”
Amir Orad Jan 25, 2016 ▶ 4:55 The Benefits of Fast Business Intelligence // Amir Orad, Sisense (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: speaking style how? →

284 words/min while actually speaking · 11.8 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Amir Orad: only 1 usable question→answer exchange 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: 3,989 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 Amir Orad said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported
Orad: Sisense processed 10TB of data in 10s on a $1k server
“Taking 10 terabytes, 10 terabytes, and in 10 seconds, running all the algorithm analysis on a standard Dell server that cost, you know, a thousand dollars.”
Amir Orad Jan 25, 2016 ▶ 8:01 The Benefits of Fast Business Intelligence // Amir Orad, Sisense (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Insight
Orad: Tech products should eliminate process steps rather than automate them
“Don't automate things, try and make them go away. Ok, this is the whole assembly line concept. You can save endless resources by taking this different attitude versus we'll do it faster.”
Amir Orad Jan 25, 2016 ▶ 16:36 The Benefits of Fast Business Intelligence // Amir Orad, Sisense (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Insight
Orad: Startups in competitive markets must be fundamentally different, not just better
“Don't be better than someone. Be totally different. It's the only way to stand out and provide value.”
Amir Orad Jan 25, 2016 ▶ 16:52 The Benefits of Fast Business Intelligence // Amir Orad, Sisense (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Orad: VCs rejected Sisense, leading a founder's father to invest $2M
“And they went to the VC community, and everyone told them they're stupid and refused to invest, so the guy's dad gave him a lot of money. Two million dollars, so you need to have the right parents, I guess.”
Amir Orad Jan 25, 2016 ▶ 3:44 The Benefits of Fast Business Intelligence // Amir Orad, Sisense (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Supported
Orad: CPU registers are the fastest hardware unit for analytics
“The fastest performing unit for analytics on the planet is the register inside the CPU.”
Amir Orad Jan 25, 2016 ▶ 4:55 The Benefits of Fast Business Intelligence // Amir Orad, Sisense (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Insight
Orad: Complex data forces teams to spend more time prepping than analyzing
“The truth is that the more complex your data, the more time you spend getting everything ready than the actual analysis.”
Amir Orad Jan 25, 2016 ▶ 9:53 The Benefits of Fast Business Intelligence // Amir Orad, Sisense (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Supported
Amir Orad: Cyota invented risk-based authentication before acquisition by RSA
“So, the first one was Syota, which was, became part of RSA, invented what is known as risk-based authentication.”
Amir Orad Jan 25, 2016 ▶ 0:59 The Benefits of Fast Business Intelligence // Amir Orad, Sisense (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Supported
Orad: $30 billion per year is spent on business intelligence
“BI is a huge space, thirty billion dollars a year spent on BI from infrastructure all the way to applications.”
Amir Orad Jan 25, 2016 ▶ 9:14 The Benefits of Fast Business Intelligence // Amir Orad, Sisense (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Partly supported
Orad: Sisense has over 1,000 customers including NASA, eBay, and Target
“A thousand customers from NASA to Lockheed Martin, to Sandisk, to Motorola, to eBay, to Target, you name it, really nice names.”
Amir Orad Jan 25, 2016 ▶ 14:21 The Benefits of Fast Business Intelligence // Amir Orad, Sisense (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The Benefits of Fast Business Intelligence // Amir Orad, Sisense (Hosted by FirstMark Capi Jan 25, 2016 17m
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