Eric (MemSQL)

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

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Eric Frenkiel is an entrepreneur who co-founded MemSQL (now SingleStore), a distributed real-time database company backed by Y Combinator. He currently serves as the Founder and CEO of Pomelo, a fintech platform providing credit-based international remittances.

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4 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · 1 disclosure · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are 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 Eric 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

Eric Frenkiel criticizes MongoDB for relying on a global write lock

“Mongo also has a global write lock. So one writer will block everyone else until it completes.”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 35:15 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

How they sound: speaking style how? →

268 words/min while actually speaking · 67.3 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Eric (MemSQL): 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: 2,096 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 said9 Episodes1

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Opinion

MemSQL's Eric Frenkiel: Open source is a marketing channel, not business model

“I think open source is, is fantastic. It's a great marketing channel. I don't think it's a great business model.”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 10:57 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

Insight

MemSQL's Eric Frenkiel argues analytics cannot be performed in key-value stores

“I mean I think, I mean, it's, you can't do analytics in key value.”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 13:29 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

Assertion Not checkable as stated

MemSQL's Eric Frenkiel argues on-premise infrastructure costs a fraction of AWS EC2

“I have a lot of you know, folks that spend tens of thousands of dollars a month on EC-II and they could do it for a fraction of the price if they did it on premise.”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 17:26 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

Assertion Partly supported

Frenkiel: MemSQL on EC2 achieves 1ms latency vs 60ms for MySQL

“Whenever you go with MM-SQL on EC-II, for example, you will see, like, one millisecond response times, and a Postgres or a MySQL is on the order of 60.”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 18:26 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

Assertion Contradicted

Eric Frenkiel criticizes MongoDB for relying on a global write lock

“Mongo also has a global write lock. So one writer will block everyone else until it completes.”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 35:15 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

What-if

Eric Frenkiel: MemSQL would not exist if launched as an open-source project

“Fundamentally I don't think MemSQL would exist if we had to go into it the open source way.”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 11:34 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

Insight

Eric Frenkiel: Writing a lightweight parser is easier than unstructured analysis

“What we typically see with unstructured data is it's far easier to write a lightweight parser around that log file, for example, and get it structured very readily.”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 20:49 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Frenkiel: Moving data from disk to memory yields a 50x speedup

“Just putting data from disk into memory, you'll see, you know, on the order of a 50 x improvement.”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 23:55 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

Disclosure

MemSQL raised millions post-YC and stayed stealth for 15 months

“We were able to raise a couple million following the program. We shut up shop in San Francisco and then basically went stealth for 1415 months. Launched the product just this year in June”

Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 7:28 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012	Dec 5, 2013	8m

Eric (MemSQL)

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