Raymie Stata

Technical Advisor, Airbnb · 1 appearance on the record.

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Raymie Stata is the former CTO of Yahoo! and the founder and former CEO of Altiscale and Stata Laboratories. He played an instrumental role in launching Yahoo's open-source strategy and supporting the development and adoption of Apache Hadoop.

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263 words/min while actually speaking · 20.5 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Raymie Stata: 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: 4,642 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 →

What they said10 Episodes1

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

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Stata predicts IT infrastructure will move to the cloud by 2026

“My personal view is, you know, 10 years from now, where it's going is clear, and I think that, when I started the company, companies like Bloomberg, for example, would say, no way, no how, we'll never do anything like, you know, like, you know, big data in the…”

Raymie Stata Dec 8, 2016 ▶ 19:01 Becoming an Internet Company // Raymie Stata, Altiscale [FirstMark's Data Driven]

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Stata predicts all companies will become internet companies

“I believe everybody, all companies are going to become internet companies.”

Raymie Stata Dec 8, 2016 ▶ 0:10 Becoming an Internet Company // Raymie Stata, Altiscale [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Insight

Stata: Perks like foosball and free food do not define internet companies

“What I do not mean is that, hey, install foosball tables, have free food, and growth will follow. That's not what defines an internet company, especially in this context.”

Raymie Stata Dec 8, 2016 ▶ 0:55 Becoming an Internet Company // Raymie Stata, Altiscale [FirstMark's Data Driven]

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Stata: Internet company system architecture transfers directly to traditional enterprises

“Now when you, when the onstage kind of becomes buildings and printers and trucks, you know, my claim is that this architecture really doesn't change. And a lot of what we learned from an from an architecture and system design perspective will transfer fairly d…”

Raymie Stata Dec 8, 2016 ▶ 7:11 Becoming an Internet Company // Raymie Stata, Altiscale [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Insight

Stata: Sophisticated experimentation relies on ladders from cheap to definitive tests

“As you get more sophisticated at running experiments, what you do is you build these ladders of experiments, where at the bottom rungs of the ladder, the experiments are cheap you know, and, but the outcomes are a little bit more questionable. As you get to th…”

Raymie Stata Dec 8, 2016 ▶ 9:35 Becoming an Internet Company // Raymie Stata, Altiscale [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Insight

Production A/B testing at Yahoo and Facebook is a costly experiment

“If you think about A-B testing, that lives much more at the top of the ladder than at the bottom. You know, to actually get to the point where you're, If you're doing A-B testing in production at a large company like Yahoo or Facebook, you have to implement th…”

Raymie Stata Dec 8, 2016 ▶ 9:55 Becoming an Internet Company // Raymie Stata, Altiscale [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Insight

Stata: Enterprise transformation is social engineering, not technical engineering

“While that data infrastructure certainly is a bit of a blocker, right, to transforming your business, actually changing business processes is, is much harder, right? That's a social engineering exercise. It's not a technical engineering exercise, and those tak…”

Raymie Stata Dec 8, 2016 ▶ 18:02 Becoming an Internet Company // Raymie Stata, Altiscale [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Real-time reinforcement learning outperformed predictive click models at Yahoo

“Instead of trying to predict what people would like, let's, let's, let's run experiments in real time and see what people click on. And that turned out to generate very good click through rates.”

Raymie Stata Dec 8, 2016 ▶ 13:58 Becoming an Internet Company // Raymie Stata, Altiscale [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Yahoo combined human editors with reinforcement learning for content personalization

“Where this ultimately went then was kind of a system that, that Brought man and machine together, where the editors would propose anywhere from 20 to hundred, and over time, 200 different stories that they think might be good. And the reinforcement learning wo…”

Raymie Stata Dec 8, 2016 ▶ 14:19 Becoming an Internet Company // Raymie Stata, Altiscale [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Disclosure

Stata: Altiscale joined SAP to enable deeper business process transformation

“And so we were required by SAP a few months ago, and for me, that was a big part of the thesis there, that SAP You know, has a lot more experience and a lot more capability to help drive into customers changes at the business process level than we ever could a…”

Raymie Stata Dec 8, 2016 ▶ 18:21 Becoming an Internet Company // Raymie Stata, Altiscale [FirstMark's Data Driven]

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Becoming an Internet Company // Raymie Stata, Altiscale [FirstMark's Data Driven]	Dec 8, 2016	21m

Raymie Stata

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