M.C. Srivas

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

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M.C. Srivas co-founded MapR Technologies in 2009 and served as its Chief Technology Officer. He later joined Uber as Chief Data Architect and previously worked on search infrastructure at Google.

19statements → 9claims → 4claims resolved → 50%fully supported → 3.84/5average certainty → 1.79/5average debate potential →

2 supported 2 partly supported 0 contradicted 5 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 7 assertions · 2 opinions · 4 insights · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 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.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how M.C. 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

Srivas: A single Apache HDFS cluster handles roughly 100 million files

“HDFS, a single cluster, can do about a hundred million files.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 8:41 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1

none yet certainty 2

75% certainty 3

75% certainty 4

none yet certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: speaking style how? →

268 words/min while actually speaking · 31.8 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for M.C. Srivas: 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: 5,315 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 said19 Episodes1

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

Opinion

Srivas: Cloudera and Hortonworks are disingenuous about their open source control

“I think that's a bit disingenuous on Hortonworks and Cloudrass part to say that Because they would like to, so the, here's the dirty little truth about open source software, open source vendors, right? I love open source as long as it's my open source and not …”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 22:49 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Assertion Supported

Srivas: A single Apache HDFS cluster handles roughly 100 million files

“HDFS, a single cluster, can do about a hundred million files.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 8:41 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Opinion

Srivas: Open source does not guarantee high software quality

“It's not clear that open source equals good quality yet.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 24:00 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Insight

Srivas: The era of rigid database schemas is over

“The old schema, rigid schema is gone. I mean, if you're still waiting, thinking that it's gonna come back, it's not. It's over.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 26:34 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Insight

Srivas: Early founders must intentionally avoid hiring people like themselves

“And you have to try to hire people who are not like you. I mean, basically, that's the first advice. Because you tend to be attracted to people who are like you, and in the beginning you really want a big variety of people, and not from the same DNA.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 4:11 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Insight

Srivas: First funding rounds build product; later rounds fund pure sales

“Because the way this venture money flows is that you get the first bunch of money for building the product, and not again. After that, you get the money for selling it.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 5:37 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Srivas: MapR powers a global email provider with 1.5 billion accounts

“We are now, from a file system perspective, we are powering one of the largest email providers in the world. Ok, ah, when I say largest email providers, everybody of you probably is on it, ah, one and a half billion email accounts.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 6:31 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Assertion Partly supported

Srivas: India's Aadhaar biometric database runs on MapR across four datacenters

“Now, this is running on MapRDB in four data centers worldwide, in across India.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 13:09 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Disclosure

Srivas: MapR provided its database software to India's Aadhaar project for free

“We gave it for free, by the way, right, because we thought it was very important.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 13:30 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Srivas: A single self-driving car produces one terabyte of data hourly

“So it's a single self-driving car produces one terabyte per hour.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 16:29 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Srivas: Next scale of big data requires thousands of edge processing clusters

“I think the real next scale in, in Stefan's graph is you need thousands of clusters that do edge processing everywhere.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 18:35 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Srivas: Almost every enterprise now has a Hadoop budget item

“Every company now has a Hadoop budget item. Almost every company.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 25:50 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Assertion Supported

Srivas: India's Aadhaar biometric system has registered 930 million people

“There's nine hundred and thirty million people online right now.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 27:33 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Insight

Srivas: Startups should avoid emulating Google or Facebook engineering infrastructure

“Technology wise, they are more advanced, but there's only one Google and one Facebook, right, and everybody else is not like that, so don't try to do that. I mean, as a startup, that's very extreme.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 31:46 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Disclosure

Srivas interviewed 50 Hadoop-using companies before founding MapR

“You know, well, before we started Mapper, I spoke to, like, about 40 or 50 people who were using Hadoop. 50 companies.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 4:43 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Prediction Partly held up

Srivas: Aadhaar will take 2.5 years to achieve full enrollment in India

“At the rate of one and a half million a day, they're gonna go for another two and a half years before everybody's on.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 13:03 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Disclosure

Srivas: MapR has reached 1,000 customers in four years

“We have about a thousand customers now, right? In four years.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 25:28 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Disclosure

Srivas: Multiple governments in Africa, Asia, and South America approached MapR

“So I have been approached by the governments, a lot of governments in Africa, a lot of governments in Asia to do this, or even in South America.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 29:40 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Srivas: MapR has approximately 400 employees

“It's more like 400.”

M.C. Srivas Dec 17, 2015 ▶ 0:50 A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)	Dec 17, 2015	23m

M.C. Srivas

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