Sandy Steier

Co-founder & Former CEO, 1010data · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sandy Steier co-founded 1010data in 2000, pioneering cloud-based big data analytics and the interactive trillion-row spreadsheet. Prior to building 1010data, which was acquired for $500 million in 2015, he developed analytical systems for mortgage-backed and fixed-income securities at UBS, Lehman Brothers, and Morgan Stanley.

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0 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 4 assertions · 1 insight · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 4 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 Sandy argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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284 words/min while actually speaking · 10.2 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Sandy Steier: 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 the audio itself: 2,845 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 said7 Episodes1

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

What-if

Steier: Modern data warehouses wouldn't exist if 1980s spreadsheets handled big data

“If in the early eighties, You know, if we could go back and go into a time machine and deliver to the past a spreadsheet that worked on unlimited amounts of data, would things have happened the way they happened? You know, yes, somehow data governance would ha…”

Sandy Steier Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 12:32 Sandy Steier, 1010data // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Steier: Big data discovery could replace the entire enterprise data stack

“I think that, in fact, data discovery, which is becoming more and more robust and taking over more and more of sort of the stack, I think it could take over the entire stack, or actually replace the stack.”

Sandy Steier Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 14:18 Sandy Steier, 1010data // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Insight

Steier: Data volume limits drove the split between spreadsheets and databases

“So the reason why you switched from spreadsheets to databases, which is a completely different kind of thing, right, is because of spreadsheets couldn't handle the larger amounts.”

Sandy Steier Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 11:34 Sandy Steier, 1010data // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Steier: Database engines are being partially replaced by Hadoop

“And in particular, this sort of, the database engine itself is being replaced to a certain degree with things like Hadoop.”

Sandy Steier Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 3:43 Sandy Steier, 1010data // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Steier: Data warehouses cannot run huge ad-hoc analyses on a whim

“The data warehouse is not capable of doing very large analyses for just, you know, on a whim by anybody who might happen to ask a question”

Sandy Steier Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 5:09 Sandy Steier, 1010data // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Steier: Adding 10 billion rows to a data warehouse takes a long time

“If I need to, if I have a new data set, somebody hands me ten billion rows of data, and I want to do an analysis on it, you know, to get a data warehouse up and running, or to add that to an existing data warehouse is a non-trivial thing to do. It takes a long…”

Sandy Steier Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 7:28 Sandy Steier, 1010data // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Assertion Partly supported

Steier: The term 'data discovery' is only a few years old

“The term itself, data discovery, is only a couple years old, or so.”

Sandy Steier Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 4:15 Sandy Steier, 1010data // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Sandy Steier, 1010data // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital	Mar 3, 2014	13m

Sandy Steier

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