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Nate Stewart

CEO, Materialize · 1 appearance on the record.

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Nate Stewart serves as the CEO of Materialize, an operational data warehouse powered by streaming technology and incremental computation. He previously led product strategy and served on the board of directors at Cockroach Labs, guiding the development and commercial scaling of CockroachDB.

16statements → 9claims → 4claims resolved → 100%fully supported → 3.81/5average certainty → 2/5average debate potential → 4.5/5argument clarity · the sources → 1said about them ↓

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

2 predictions · 7 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 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 Nate 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
Stewart: Cockroach Labs adopted BSL, open-sourcing code after three years
“One of the big things we did is we did change our open source license. So it's still source available. It's still free, but we moved from Apache to a license called the business source license. Which is just like Apache, you can use the software, you can redis…”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 33:13 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

4.5 / 5 directness 5 · coherence 4.9 · precision 4.4 · compression 4

answered every one of 9 assessed questions directly

This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →

How they sound: speaking style how? →

250 words/min while actually speaking · 27.4 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 6,274 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 Nate Stewart said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Stewart: Cockroach Labs adopted BSL, open-sourcing code after three years
“One of the big things we did is we did change our open source license. So it's still source available. It's still free, but we moved from Apache to a license called the business source license. Which is just like Apache, you can use the software, you can redis…”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 33:13 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stewart: CockroachDB beats Amazon Aurora heads-up in single data centers
“We're still winning heads up versus Amazon Aurora in single data centers.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 38:47 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Opinion
Stewart: Modern relational databases must be shared-nothing distributed SQL
“We think that again, if you were to build a relational database today with the current state of art, you would end up with a shared nothing, a SQL database that supports transactions.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 13:11 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Supported
Stewart: Amazon Aurora's single master limits write scaling and creates downtime risk
“If you're, if you have a lot of rights, they're still going to a single master. They didn't rewrite the execution engine. So if that master goes down, your apps offline, if you want to scale your rights, you're going to have to get a larger and larger master m…”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 14:42 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Insight
Stewart: Enterprise managed cloud demand is driven by SRE hiring bottlenecks
“When we first built it, we were thinking, hey, this is for the startups. This is for the growth stage companies. But what we've seen in practice is that even the enterprises are like, we cannot hire site reliability engineers or operators fast enough to run th…”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 20:25 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
Stewart: Dropping CS and PM requirements speeds up product manager hiring
“Because I can hire product managers a lot faster than someone that says, Hey, you already have to be a product manager or you have to have a computer science background.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 6:47 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
Stewart: CockroachDB scales reads and writes arbitrarily across supported PostgreSQL features
“We don't have full Postgres compatibility today, but every Postgres feature we have is cloud native. It will use the full power of the cluster to serve your queries and we can scale writes arbitrarily. We can scale reads arbitrarily.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 15:28 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Supported
Stewart: Cassandra offers fast reads but requires upfront knowledge of queries
“Cassandra can give you extremely fast reads, but it's going to come at the cost of some flexibility because for Cassandra, you have to know your query patterns ahead of time. You have to design your data for a particular set of queries.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 15:51 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Stewart: Cockroach Cloud will be default way people experience CockroachDB
“Cockroach Cloud, which we believe will be the default way that people experience CockroachDB”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 19:32 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Stewart: Online education will drive CockroachDB adoption into mission-critical apps
“We believe that online education really is the future way that we're going to get CockroachDB into more mission critical applications.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 26:47 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Insight
Stewart: Migrating to NoSQL sacrificed ACID consistency, creating major development drawbacks
“You traded scale for acid, but that's something you lost when you're moving away from the relational database. And it turned out that losing acid Was a big deal.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 41:18 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nate Stewart: Cockroach Labs product team has about 25 people
“So the product team right now is about 25 people.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 3:42 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stewart: Traditional relational databases require offline downtime for schema changes
“In traditional relational databases. You're going to have to take the app offline. You're going to have to lock a table.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 8:14 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Supported
Stewart: CockroachDB presents as a single Postgres database to developers
“From the point of view of the application developer, it looks like they're talking to a single Postgres database, but it just so happens to be elastically scalable.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 9:03 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
Stewart: Google Spanner paper provided the foundation for CockroachDB
“With some breakthroughs in computer science, there was the Google Spanner paper that came out, and it said, hey, you can get transactions. You can have these types of guarantees in a distributed environment, and that was really the foundation for the work that…”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 12:50 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
Stewart: Cockroach Labs lacked telemetry before building managed cloud service
“So we don't look at the data that is in the database, but you know, where are people getting stuck when they're signing up? How long is it taking them to run that first query? That's information that was completely lost to us when we were just offering the ope…”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 22:48 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

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Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstM Aug 5, 2020 31m
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