Drew (InfoChimps)

Co-founder & CSO, Unchained · 1 appearance on the record.

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Bansal co-founded big-data platform Infochimps in 2008 and later co-founded Unchained in 2016, a financial services company known for multi-signature bitcoin custody. Educated at Columbia University and UT Austin, he is also recognized in the cryptocurrency sector for creating data models and essays such as HODL Waves.

6statements → 3claims → 1claims resolved → 3.67/5average certainty → 2.17/5average debate potential →

0 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 1 assertion · 2 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 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 Drew argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

InfoChimps receives more external code commits than internal ones

“And we're getting more commits from folks outside the company now than we are from inside”

Drew (InfoChimps) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 10:48 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

How they sound: speaking style how? →

293 words/min while actually speaking · 19.2 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Drew (InfoChimps): 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: 2,135 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 →

What they said6 Episodes1

Everything Drew (InfoChimps) 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

Drew Bansal predicts enterprises will put sensitive data in cloud by 2022

“I can see a world in which 10 years from now those are also ok.”

Drew (InfoChimps) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 15:16 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

Prediction Not checkable as stated

InfoChimps' Drew Bansal: Personal privacy is going to die eventually

“I feel like privacy is going to die eventually, like it's going to be over, we can't stop it, it's already happened sort of thing”

Drew (InfoChimps) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 41:37 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

Insight

Drew Bansal asserts open and transparent data limits potential data misuse

“I like that when data is open and transparent and easily shared and easily indexed and discovered, that you can limit a lot of the bad stuff that people can do with it”

Drew (InfoChimps) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 42:07 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

Insight

InfoChimps co-founder: Companies pay for internal data integration, not public data

“So I feel like data mashing together and shareability is hugely important, and it's something that folks are willing to pay for within an organization for internal data. Maybe not necessarily, at least in our company's experience, for data that is coming exter…”

Drew (InfoChimps) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 32:09 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

Disclosure

InfoChimps pivoted from data content marketplace to infrastructure platform

“We couldn't get enough revenue by just selling the content. But as soon as people found out, we pivoted to, hey, this platform we built to support our marketplace, you can have one of these.”

Drew (InfoChimps) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 5:44 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012