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Felix Van de Maele

Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra · 1 appearance on the record.

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Felix Van de Maele is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Collibra. He previously conducted research in computer science before launching the enterprise data governance company.

13statements → 4claims → 0claims resolved → 4/5average certainty → 2.15/5average debate potential → 4.2/5argument clarity · the sources →

4 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 3 assertions · 2 opinions · 3 insights · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 4 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 Felix argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

4.2 / 5 directness 4.8 · coherence 4.4 · precision 3.9 · compression 3.5

answered every one of 8 assessed questions directly

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? →

305 words/min while actually speaking · 22.2 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,783 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 Felix Van de Maele 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
Centralizing enterprise data in one warehouse will never solve all data problems
“Data repositories, data warehouses, they all argue that just move all of your data in one place, and it's going to solve all of your problems. We've been hearing that promise for the last 25 years, and it's never solved all of our problems, and it never will.”
Felix Van de Maele Mar 17, 2022 ▶ 12:02 Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Van de Maele: Digitally native companies often lack orderly data
“You'd be surprised that some of those digitally native companies, very data first companies, you would think they have all of the data in order as definitely far from the truth.”
Felix Van de Maele Mar 17, 2022 ▶ 9:51 Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Opinion
Van de Maele: Legacy data incumbents missed the cloud transition
“The second one is what I call the incumbents that I think have kind of missed the boat to the clouds. And I think you're going to be struggled there to kind of provide that experience.”
Felix Van de Maele Mar 17, 2022 ▶ 14:08 Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Van de Maele: Cloud hyperscalers fail to connect metadata to business context
“The hyperscalers, they're great at kind of managing within their ecosystem, right? If you're purely technical metadata within BigQuery or Snowflake or Databricks and so on. But then how do you tie it to the business? That's not something that they do.”
Felix Van de Maele Mar 17, 2022 ▶ 14:16 Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Insight
Van de Maele: Effective data governance requires a business workflow engine
“I think a core part of all of this is this kind of understanding that actually you need a workflow engine, like a business process engine to help people kind of work together effectively.”
Felix Van de Maele Mar 17, 2022 ▶ 2:07 Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Opinion
Van de Maele: Metadata management must serve as data's system of record
“We believe kind of a new approach is, is required where where the metadata management kind of foundation You really built a kind of a, almost what we call a system of engagement of system of record for data.”
Felix Van de Maele Mar 17, 2022 ▶ 3:02 Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
Van de Maele: Collibra had zero customers for two years before pivoting
“We want to do data integration better. We tried for two years had zero customers. And so that's when we kind of pivoted into kind of data governance.”
Felix Van de Maele Mar 17, 2022 ▶ 17:53 Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Insight
Van de Maele: Early-stage startup operators fail in structured corporate leadership roles
“Put it, put a pirate on Navy ship. That's not going to work. Put a Navy captain on a pirate ship. That's not going to work either”
Felix Van de Maele Mar 17, 2022 ▶ 18:51 Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
Collibra replaced its entire original leadership team within three years
“And I remember the first leadership team I've built, I thought these are all amazing people and they all are amazing people. And I thought that was going to be your leadership team for the next foreseeable future. And two years, two or three years later, it wa…”
Felix Van de Maele Mar 17, 2022 ▶ 19:25 Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Insight
Van de Maele: Organizational scaling should mimic software API and SLA architecture
“Just like to have APIs and SLAs and a product, you need to do the same thing on the company level, right? You have to modularize, you have the components, you have to kind of org chart.”
Felix Van de Maele Mar 17, 2022 ▶ 21:15 Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
Van de Maele hired Collibra executives without meeting them in person
“I had a few new executives as part of the executive team without having seen them in person ever.”
Felix Van de Maele Mar 17, 2022 ▶ 22:24 Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Van de Maele: Data quality discipline originated from marketing mailings
“Originally it kind of, it came from how do we make sure that our marketing database that we send email mailings to the addresses are correct. That's where data quality came from, 20 years ago.”
Felix Van de Maele Mar 17, 2022 ▶ 5:01 Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
Van de Maele: Collibra manages metadata without moving or storing customer data
“We don't move any data. So we have kind of connectors. We tie into all of your kind of data systems on-prem and the cloud. We capture all of that metadata. Table, schema, columns, files, and so forth. That's kind of how we built that metadata graph, but we're …”
Felix Van de Maele Mar 17, 2022 ▶ 7:36 Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, F Mar 17, 2022 15m
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