Nick Schrock
Founder and CTO, Dagster Labs · 1 appearance on the record.
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While working as an engineering leader at Facebook, Nick Schrock co-created GraphQL to power mobile applications. He later founded Elementl (rebranded as Dagster Labs) and created Dagster, a popular open-source data orchestration platform.
1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted how the 1 claim stands · each chip opens the sources
1 assertion · 6 insights · 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 Nick argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.
How they sound: speaking style how? →
240 words/min while actually speaking · 20.7 um and uh per 1k words
No argument clarity score for Nick Schrock: only 6 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 6 raw tape exchanges is ≈4.5/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small.
Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,860 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 Nick Schrock said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
The other half of the tape: Nick Schrock's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 1 time in 1 episode on the MAD Podcast. every mention, with the transcript →
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Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Fireside Chat: Nick Schrock (Founder & CEO, Elementl) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark) | Jun 21, 2021 | 20m |