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Ian White

Founder, CEO & CTO, ChartHop · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ian White is the founder, CEO, and CTO of ChartHop. Previously, he was the co-founder and CTO of Sailthru and served as the first head of engineering at Business Insider.

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5 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 5 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.

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What the tape says about how Ian argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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229 words/min while actually speaking · 16.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Ian White: 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: 2,959 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 Ian White said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
White: Sailthru's co-location hardware paid off within one year
“We looked at it, and it paid off in basically a year after, after purchasing that hardware.”
Ian White Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 17:44 Ian White, Sailthru // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Disclosure
Sailthru moved its infrastructure off AWS cloud to co-location in 2012
“By 2012, our ops team had grown to the size where it made sense, both on a capex basis and on an operational basis, just to move off of the cloud, to move our infrastructure off of AWS and into our own colo.”
Ian White Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 7:50 Ian White, Sailthru // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sailthru processes roughly half a billion events every day
“We process about half a billion events every day.”
Ian White Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 4:06 Ian White, Sailthru // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
White: Sailthru has 500 million users in its database
“Each of the five hundred million users we have in our database is a distinct person who has distinct interests and we can form a body of data about this individual which can help us reach that person.”
Ian White Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 8:36 Ian White, Sailthru // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
White: 80 to 90 percent of Sailthru's infrastructure is databases
“80, 90% of our infrastructure is databases because we're storing all this data.”
Ian White Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 17:05 Ian White, Sailthru // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Disclosure
Sailthru uses MongoDB as its primary data store
“We use MongoDB as our primary data store.”
Ian White Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 4:15 Ian White, Sailthru // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sailthru operated hundreds of AWS nodes prior to late 2011
“Before the end of 2011, we had hundreds of nodes on AWS.”
Ian White Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 7:44 Ian White, Sailthru // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Ian White, Sailthru // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) Mar 3, 2014 17m
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