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Jeremiah Lowin

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

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Jeremiah Lowin is the founder and CEO of Prefect, an orchestration platform for data and AI workflows, and the creator of FastMCP. A Harvard-educated statistician, he previously managed risk systems at King Street Capital and served on the Apache Airflow Project Management Committee.

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1 prediction · 2 assertions · 1 opinion · 5 insights · 2 disclosures · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions 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 Jeremiah argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up
Lowin: PyMC3 developers will revitalize the Theano open-source project
“Because I think the IMC three folks are going to sort of revitalize it, which I think is awesome.”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 24:42 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

How they sound: speaking style how? →

298 words/min while actually speaking · 25 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Jeremiah Lowin: only 2 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: 5,915 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 Jeremiah Lowin said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Lowin: Managed hosting for open-source tools is a bad business model
“I think that that is a bad business model. And I sort of, I'm on the record of that. And for a very simple reason, which is that A company that is solving a problem needs to find the correct way to express its knowledge and its solution to that problem.”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 41:52 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lowin: Prefect's functionality is a superset of Apache Airflow's
“Now it happens that our functionality is a superset of Airflow's functionality.”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 30:03 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Insight
Jeremiah Lowin: Every data system eventually requires defining a schema
“You're going to have a schema. It's just a question of whether you define it upfront or you figure it out later.”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 13:21 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
Lowin: Prefect acts as insurance, delivering value when data pipelines break
“That's why we frequently describe our product as an insurance product is because we deliver value mainly when things go wrong. And this will sound crazy maybe to say, but if everything goes the way one of our users expected it to go, they really don't Need our…”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 28:21 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Insight
Lowin: Negative engineering is defensive work ensuring code actually runs
“And so we've named this problem, the negative engineering problem, because it's not about what you're trying to achieve. It's about all the defensive work you have to do to make sure that it actually took place, in fact, took place.”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 28:50 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
What-if
Lowin would have built Prefect within Apache Airflow if possible
“And if I were able to do the things that Prefect does in airflow, I would have.”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 29:43 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Insight
Lowin: Saving time during outages offers higher leverage than routine orchestration
“If you imagine saving someone one hour orchestrating something, just getting that code to run versus saving a team one hour in a production crisis incident, the leverage of that hour, it's the same hour, but the leverage, the impact, the emotional burden, the …”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 32:20 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lowin: Very few open-source projects turn into successful commercial businesses
“The number of successful companies that have actually iterated on this open source, The number is very, very, very small, and it's especially small relative to the denominator, which is much larger because the cost of entering the market is so low.”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 40:12 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Insight
Lowin: GraphQL is fabulous for exploratory work and well-defined queries
“What we've found is that it's fabulous for exploratory work. Or ironically well defined queries, which is sort of the opposite of the purpose of GraphQL.”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 46:14 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Insight
Lowin: Modern tools let analysts query data warehouses directly over static CSVs
“If we think back to BI tools, say five, certainly 10 years ago, you would sort of beg for a CSV and God help you if the data, if the insight you weren't, the insight you were looking for was not in that CSV, you were sort of screwed. But now thanks to, you kno…”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 4:06 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
Lowin: Mapping is Prefect's most popular feature
“It's by far the most popular feature of Prefect. And we can see that in our data. And that's because it solves a real problem that I experienced with data science, which I have a bunch of things I need to work with, but I don't know about it until Until runtim…”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 51:13 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Prediction Held up
Lowin: PyMC3 developers will revitalize the Theano open-source project
“Because I think the IMC three folks are going to sort of revitalize it, which I think is awesome.”
Jeremiah Lowin Dec 11, 2020 ▶ 24:42 Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

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Appearances (1)

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Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, Fir Dec 11, 2020 25m
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