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Kirill Sheynkman

Senior Managing Director, RTP Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Kirill Sheynkman is an enterprise software entrepreneur who co-founded companies including Plumtree Software and Elastra. He serves as Senior Managing Director at RTP Ventures, where he backs early-stage cloud infrastructure, SaaS, and big data companies.

10statements → 5claims → 1claims resolved → 3.7/5average certainty → 2.1/5average debate potential → 3said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 3 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 3 assertions · 2 opinions · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 3 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 Kirill 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
Kirill Sheynkman: No standard language exists yet for real-time streaming data transformation
“And we have, we don't have a language yet for transforming streaming data and operating on it in real time.”
Kirill Sheynkman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 15:21 Kirill Sheynkman, RTP Ventures // Data Driven #3 // Feb 2012 (Interviewed by Matt Turck)

How they sound: speaking style how? →

250 words/min while actually speaking · 40.6 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Kirill Sheynkman: 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: 4,484 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 Kirill Sheynkman 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
Sheynkman: Businesses built solely on selling raw data are unlikely to succeed
“So now we're going to generate a lot of data, and that's supposed to be a revenue model, and that's supposed to be for us VCs going, oh yeah, they're going to have lots of data, let's, let's, let's give them money. Not really. So what are you going to do with …”
Kirill Sheynkman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 20:21 Kirill Sheynkman, RTP Ventures // Data Driven #3 // Feb 2012 (Interviewed by Matt Turck)
Insight
Sheynkman: Venture capital should be your last job, not your first
“VC should be your last job, not your first job”
Kirill Sheynkman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 2:03 Kirill Sheynkman, RTP Ventures // Data Driven #3 // Feb 2012 (Interviewed by Matt Turck)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sheynkman: No big data startup has reached actionable knowledge yet
“With the big data world, we're excited about the data part. We're starting to get some information out with visualization and alerting and monitoring, things like that. No one has yet gotten to knowledge.”
Kirill Sheynkman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 11:05 Kirill Sheynkman, RTP Ventures // Data Driven #3 // Feb 2012 (Interviewed by Matt Turck)
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Kirill Sheynkman: Apple uses GridGain for supply chain analytics
“Apple uses them to supply chain analytics.”
Kirill Sheynkman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 5:28 Kirill Sheynkman, RTP Ventures // Data Driven #3 // Feb 2012 (Interviewed by Matt Turck)
Insight
Sheynkman: Analytics software must be transparent glass boxes, not black boxes
“We don't want our analytics to be black boxes. We want them to be boxes with a glass top that I can look and see how things happen, open it up, reach in and figure out what went on there.”
Kirill Sheynkman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 12:02 Kirill Sheynkman, RTP Ventures // Data Driven #3 // Feb 2012 (Interviewed by Matt Turck)
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kirill Sheynkman: Automated machine-to-machine processing will dominate real-time data systems
“Really a lot of the trading that goes on is actually done by machines receiving feeds from other machines, and I think the same is true, is going to be true with systems, that systems that understand signals, that, that can react.”
Kirill Sheynkman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 14:13 Kirill Sheynkman, RTP Ventures // Data Driven #3 // Feb 2012 (Interviewed by Matt Turck)
Assertion Supported
Kirill Sheynkman: No standard language exists yet for real-time streaming data transformation
“And we have, we don't have a language yet for transforming streaming data and operating on it in real time.”
Kirill Sheynkman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 15:21 Kirill Sheynkman, RTP Ventures // Data Driven #3 // Feb 2012 (Interviewed by Matt Turck)
Insight
Sheynkman: Technology cycles start at infrastructure before moving to applications
“You start with the infrastructure layers, and you start at the bottom, and you gradually move up in terms of things.”
Kirill Sheynkman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 18:19 Kirill Sheynkman, RTP Ventures // Data Driven #3 // Feb 2012 (Interviewed by Matt Turck)
Opinion
Sheynkman: Core corporate data is a competitive advantage and shouldn't be public
“There's certain things that are very proprietary and they should be proprietary, right? And I think that, that some of the data that Federal Express and Amazon and Walmart have, That's their competitive advantage, and why would they ever want to publicize it? …”
Kirill Sheynkman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 22:22 Kirill Sheynkman, RTP Ventures // Data Driven #3 // Feb 2012 (Interviewed by Matt Turck)
Opinion
Kirill Sheynkman: Tableau is a good company, but limited by Windows-only support
“I like Tableau as a company. It's in Seattle. Unfortunately, they're Windows only.”
Kirill Sheynkman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 16:03 Kirill Sheynkman, RTP Ventures // Data Driven #3 // Feb 2012 (Interviewed by Matt Turck)

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Appearances (1)

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Kirill Sheynkman, RTP Ventures // Data Driven #3 // Feb 2012 (Interviewed by Matt Turck) Dec 5, 2013 22m
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