Josh Green

Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Novata · 1 appearance on the record.

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Josh Green is the co-founder and former CEO of Panjiva, a global trade data platform acquired by S&P Global in 2018. In 2021, he co-founded Novata, an ESG data platform serving private markets.

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1 assertion · 2 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. 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 Josh 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

Assertion Supported

$18 trillion worth of goods crosses global borders annually

“18 trillion dollars worth of stuff goes across borders every year.”

Josh Green Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 1:23 Josh Green, Panjiva // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

How they sound: speaking style how? →

253 words/min while actually speaking · 41.2 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Josh Green: 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: 3,110 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 said5 Episodes1

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

Insight

In an era of data abundance, the main risk is opportunity cost

“The real danger in an era of abundant data is really opportunity cost. If you spend too much time playing with a data set that you can't extract value from, you missed an opportunity to play with another data set that you might actually get value from.”

Josh Green Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 15:10 Josh Green, Panjiva // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Insight

Find a problem worth solving before searching for data

“So go hunting for the data after you've figured out a problem that's worth solving, because God forbid you spend a ton of time with data and find out that there was nothing useful there, or the problem that you can solve with that data actually isn't that inte…”

Josh Green Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 16:59 Josh Green, Panjiva // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Assertion Supported

$18 trillion worth of goods crosses global borders annually

“18 trillion dollars worth of stuff goes across borders every year.”

Josh Green Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 1:23 Josh Green, Panjiva // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Disclosure

Panjiva has approximately 2,000 paying customers

“We have about 2000 customers that pay to access the Pangeva platform.”

Josh Green Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 5:48 Josh Green, Panjiva // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Disclosure

Panjiva spent months building a proprietary customer rating that users rejected

“We had this notion that we would build something called the Pangeva rating, where we would look at a bunch of different attributes of companies based on all the shipping data, and we would, ah, put a rating on that company. And we spent months working on this.…”

Josh Green Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 11:40 Josh Green, Panjiva // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Josh Green, Panjiva // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)	Mar 3, 2014	15m

Josh Green

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