Dev Ittycheria
Former President & CEO, MongoDB · 1 appearance on the record.
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Dev Ittycheria led MongoDB as President and CEO from 2014 to 2025, taking the database company public in 2017 and overseeing the launch of MongoDB Atlas. Previously, he co-founded and served as CEO of BladeLogic and worked as an investor at Greylock Partners and OpenView Venture Partners.
5 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
6 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed. 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 Dev argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.
Expressed certainty vs assessment result
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
Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →
redirected or did not address 1 of 12 assessed questions (8%). Watch them ▸
This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →
How they sound: speaking style how? →
253 words/min while actually speaking · 17.6 um and uh per 1k words
Measured by listening to the audio itself: 7,157 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 Dev Ittycheria said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
The other half of the tape: Dev Ittycheria's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 1 time in 1 episode on the MAD Podcast. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Matt Turck 1
Every mention by year
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMa | Apr 27, 2021 | 31m |