Jon Hyman

Co-founder & CTO, Braze · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jon Hyman co-founded Braze alongside Bill Magnuson and Mark Ghermezian, overseeing its technical architecture, data pipelines, and engineering teams through its 2021 IPO. Before co-founding Braze, he worked as a software engineer within the Core Technology group at Bridgewater Associates.

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6 assertions · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 6 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 Jon argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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278 words/min while actually speaking · 23 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Jon Hyman: only 1 usable question→answer exchange 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: 4,124 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 said8 Episodes1

Everything Jon Hyman said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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Collecting 99th percentile mobile app engagement data takes up to four weeks

“We've seen for some apps and this varies by app and by country and everything like that, it can take up to four weeks for us to get that 99th percentile of data collected.”

Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 5:22 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Disclosure

Braze plans to self-host Elasticsearch on AWS rather than using managed service

“What we're doing is we're going to be running our own Elasticsearch instances ourselves that we can then fully configure and it'll just give us a lot more flexibility.”

Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 16:57 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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Hyman: Braze helps client brands reach over 1.25 billion monthly active users

“We're helping them engage more than one and a quarter billion monthly active users.”

Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 2:07 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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Braze processes 500 billion monthly data points to deliver personalized brand messages

“And the way that we do this is by processing nearly half a trillion pieces of data every single month, and then our customers, these marketing and growth and engagement teams of these brands, can then use that to personalize and send out tens of billions of me…”

Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 2:12 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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Jon Hyman says Braze processes about 100 megabytes per second through Kafka

“So the scale that we're operating at, we're pushing about a hundred megabytes per second through Kafka.”

Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 6:51 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Insight

On-demand marketplaces must control promotion visibility to balance supply and demand

“These on-demand marketplaces, similarly like Lyft, it's challenging where you need to control the amount of people who can even see your promotional materials let alone who are acting on it.”

Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 9:17 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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Postmates uses Braze engagement data to adjust courier supply

“So Postmates can use this engagement data to then adjust the supply on their side.”

Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 9:26 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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Braze CTO: Failed push notifications are mostly caused by app uninstalls

“It actually is mostly attributed to uninstalls. When people uninstall your app, you can't send push to them anymore and so they end up bouncing.”

Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 13:30 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)	Apr 9, 2018	17m

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