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Prakash Nanduri

Co-founder & Former CEO, Paxata · 1 appearance on the record.

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Prakash Nanduri is the co-founder and former CEO of Paxata, a self-service data preparation platform acquired by DataRobot in 2019. Prior to Paxata, he co-founded Velosel and led product and technology strategy initiatives at SAP.

8statements → 7claims → 1claims resolved → 4/5average certainty → 2/5average debate potential →

0 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 5 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 6 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, 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 Prakash 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? →

194 words/min while actually speaking · 5.3 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Prakash Nanduri: no 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 3,035 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Prakash Nanduri is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

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

Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Nanduri predicts 2.5 billion people will be knowledge workers by 2030
“By 2030, there'll be five billion middle class human beings, of which at least half of them will be knowledge workers.”
Prakash Nanduri Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 5:08 The Journey to Information for Everyone // Prakash Nanduri, Paxata (Hosted by FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Data scientists are highly-paid janitors who spend 80 percent of time munging
“Most of the data scientists that are highly paid and highly educated are data janitors. Because 80% of the time, they are spending time munging data.”
Prakash Nanduri Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 5:54 The Journey to Information for Everyone // Prakash Nanduri, Paxata (Hosted by FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Turning raw enterprise data into actionable information takes weeks or months
“It takes weeks and months, because we do this thing called taking data and preparing it, and munging it, that's the technical term, to get it to information before we can answer any of our simple questions.”
Prakash Nanduri Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 3:21 The Journey to Information for Everyone // Prakash Nanduri, Paxata (Hosted by FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nanduri estimates 90 percent of enterprise data questions are simple
“And we all know that 90% of the questions we are asking in the enterprise are simple questions.”
Prakash Nanduri Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 3:40 The Journey to Information for Everyone // Prakash Nanduri, Paxata (Hosted by FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nanduri notes there are currently one billion knowledge workers worldwide
“There are a billion knowledge workers in this world, and by the way, that is expanding.”
Prakash Nanduri Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 5:03 The Journey to Information for Everyone // Prakash Nanduri, Paxata (Hosted by FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nanduri claims every large enterprise plans to run hybrid cloud environments
“Every one of our large customers tell us that at the end of the day, they're going to live in hybrid environments. So they are going to have, the large enterprise customers are going to be having some workloads on, in the cloud, some workloads on-premise.”
Prakash Nanduri Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 17:29 The Journey to Information for Everyone // Prakash Nanduri, Paxata (Hosted by FirstMark)
Disclosure
Paxata has over 50 enterprise customers and 77 employees
“We have over 50 customers. Our team is about 77 people.”
Prakash Nanduri Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 16:45 The Journey to Information for Everyone // Prakash Nanduri, Paxata (Hosted by FirstMark)
Assertion Partly supported
Nanduri notes the web browser is roughly 8,000 days old
“The browser is about 8000 days old”
Prakash Nanduri Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 1:34 The Journey to Information for Everyone // Prakash Nanduri, Paxata (Hosted by FirstMark)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The Journey to Information for Everyone // Prakash Nanduri, Paxata (Hosted by FirstMark) Apr 13, 2016 18m
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