Ramana Rao

CTO, Livefyre · 1 appearance on the record.

computed by AI from the episodes · how this works → · full disclaimer →

Ramana Rao is the Chief Technology Officer of Livefyre. He spoke at Data Driven NYC on how companies manage and drive real-time social engagement.

12statements → 11claims → 0claims resolved → 4.08/5average certainty → 1/5average debate potential →

11 not checkable as stated how the 11 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 10 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 11 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 11 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 Ramana 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? →

209 words/min while actually speaking · 68.5 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Ramana Rao: 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: 3,316 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 Ramana Rao 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
PlayStation 4 launch generated four million pieces of content on Livefyre
“Four million pieces of content during the launch of PlayStation four.”
Ramana Rao Oct 21, 2015 ▶ 5:36 Ramana Rao, Livefyre // Real-Time Social Engagement (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Disney saw repeat visits increase fivefold after integrating Livefyre social elements
“People returned to this site five times as much after they started adding the social elements to the site.”
Ramana Rao Oct 21, 2015 ▶ 5:40 Ramana Rao, Livefyre // Real-Time Social Engagement (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sears tripled its Craftsman Club membership by adding user project showcases
“After they added this showcase your work element so that users could submit what their favorite projects were, whether they were in metal, whether they were in wood, or whatever else, I guess, plastic, or DYIers could kind of get excited and show off here, and…”
Ramana Rao Oct 21, 2015 ▶ 5:56 Ramana Rao, Livefyre // Real-Time Social Engagement (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fox's breaking news coverage topped 200,000 concurrent interactive users via Livefyre
“Here you can see just barely there are a hundred, 128 thousand people live on this, Page at the same time. It actually crested up over 200,000.”
Ramana Rao Oct 21, 2015 ▶ 6:52 Ramana Rao, Livefyre // Real-Time Social Engagement (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Livefyre reaches 350 million unique visitors and 3 billion page views
“So we have three hundred fifty million global uniques three billion page views a large number of customers, a hundred million, ah, pieces of social content, and that goes through spam and abuse kind of classifiers of all kinds.”
Ramana Rao Oct 21, 2015 ▶ 11:42 Ramana Rao, Livefyre // Real-Time Social Engagement (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Livefyre operates its entire platform with only 25 engineers including DevOps
“We, by the way, only have, ah, 25 engineers, and that includes DevOps.”
Ramana Rao Oct 21, 2015 ▶ 13:34 Ramana Rao, Livefyre // Real-Time Social Engagement (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Livefyre regularly hits one million concurrent live users across its network
“Across all the pages we're serving right now, you can kind of see, we'll regularly hit a million people live at once.”
Ramana Rao Oct 21, 2015 ▶ 14:39 Ramana Rao, Livefyre // Real-Time Social Engagement (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Livefyre processes four million requests per minute across its live widgets
“We can see four million requests a minute. So that's like that's about like 66 thousand requests per second.”
Ramana Rao Oct 21, 2015 ▶ 15:24 Ramana Rao, Livefyre // Real-Time Social Engagement (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Livefyre processed 12 million requests per minute during 2015 CNN debate
“We have hit three times that number, ah, during, actually during the CNN debate this year.”
Ramana Rao Oct 21, 2015 ▶ 15:45 Ramana Rao, Livefyre // Real-Time Social Engagement (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rao predicts Livefyre will process over 80 billion events per month
“We're going to generate eighty billion plus Events a month.”
Ramana Rao Oct 21, 2015 ▶ 18:28 Ramana Rao, Livefyre // Real-Time Social Engagement (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Disclosure
Livefyre uses the Caffe deep learning framework for NSFW image filtering
“For the nudity filter we're using some of the image network and using CAFE.”
Ramana Rao Oct 21, 2015 ▶ 21:13 Ramana Rao, Livefyre // Real-Time Social Engagement (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Re/code conference generated 27,000 tweets and 4,000 content pieces via Livefyre
“So you end up with 27, 7000 tweets in this case, or 4000 pieces of content that are displayed in the show itself.”
Ramana Rao Oct 21, 2015 ▶ 4:38 Ramana Rao, Livefyre // Real-Time Social Engagement (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Ramana Rao, Livefyre // Real-Time Social Engagement (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) Oct 21, 2015 19m
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 400 conversations transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.