Mike Tuchen

CEO, Talend · 1 appearance on the record.

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10statements → 5claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 4.2/5average certainty → 1.7/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 1said about them ↓

2 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are 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 Mike 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
Gartner: Companies spend 60% of their data effort on the first mile
“According to folks like Gartner companies spend about 60% of their time and effort solving that first mile, so that's what we do.”
Mike Tuchen Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 1:46 Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

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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? →

270 words/min while actually speaking · 27.2 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Mike Tuchen: only 7 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. Their coarse estimate from 7 raw tape exchanges is ≈4.5/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 6,811 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 Mike Tuchen said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Early Apache Spark was so unstable that clusters crashed within two hours
“At the time we made that bet, Spark was barely working. I mean, seriously. It was a really promising technology, very complete programming model. We loved the fact it was in memory, but we couldn't find a single customer that could keep their cluster running f…”
Mike Tuchen Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 16:31 Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Insight
Tuchen: Open source matters less in the cloud era than on-premise
“I firmly believe that open sourceness is actually less important in a cloud world than it was in the premise world.”
Mike Tuchen Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 20:51 Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Opinion
Tuchen: Microsoft is by far the easiest cloud vendor to partner with
“They're by far the easiest cloud vendor to partner with right now.”
Mike Tuchen Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 35:15 Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Disclosure
Talend partnered with Google to transition Dataflow into Apache Beam
“We talked to Google, and they had open sourced a part of that, and said, would you be willing to make that an Apache project, and, you know, co-sponsor it with us, and so we can now jointly push this thing forward? And they said yes, and we did. And so that be…”
Mike Tuchen Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 14:44 Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Over half of Talend's sales pipeline originates from free tier users
“What we find is that still today well over half of our sales opportunities come from people that are trying it out for free, right?”
Mike Tuchen Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 19:37 Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Partly supported
Tuchen: Google BigQuery is the only fully serverless major cloud data engine
“Google BigQuery is a very impressive data engine. It's probably the only one of the cloud majors that's delivering in a fully serverless kind of way.”
Mike Tuchen Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 35:32 Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Supported
Gartner: Companies spend 60% of their data effort on the first mile
“According to folks like Gartner companies spend about 60% of their time and effort solving that first mile, so that's what we do.”
Mike Tuchen Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 1:46 Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Supported
IDC: Data analysts waste up to three hours daily duplicating work
“Data analysts and data engineers tend to waste around one to three hours per day on duplicating work that someone else has already done.”
Mike Tuchen Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 21:54 Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Disclosure
Tuchen: Talend will surpass $200 million in revenue in 2018
“And then when I joined Talend it was already a fifty million dollar company, about 350 people. We'll do a little over two hundred million this year. We've got a little over a thousand people.”
Mike Tuchen Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 27:31 Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Disclosure
Talend relies on 10 to 20 partner services people per internal employee
“For every one talent services person, there'll probably be 10 or 20 or more partner services people.”
Mike Tuchen Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 38:52 Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) Oct 17, 2018 32m
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