Shinji Kim

Founder & CEO, Select Star · 1 appearance on the record.

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Shinji Kim is an entrepreneur in data infrastructure best known for founding Select Star, an automated data discovery and metadata context platform acquired by Snowflake. Earlier in her career, she was the co-founder and CEO of Concord Systems, an IoT and stream-processing startup acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2016.

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1 prediction · 2 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 3 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 Shinji argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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223 words/min while actually speaking · 43.2 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Shinji Kim: 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: 3,123 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 Shinji Kim said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Kim: 'Data catalog' is an overused buzzword for a basic tool feature
“I actually think data catalog is a very overused term and also a feature that's available for every modern data tools. Like every data quality or observability tools have a catalog. But catalog really is your schema like map plus search.”
Shinji Kim Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 19:10 Automated Data Discovery | Select Star's Shinji Kim
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kim: Cloud providers enable an unstoppable corporate drive to collect more data
“And it became very clear to me that companies are not going to stop anytime soon with their desire to collect more data more often, and cloud providers are just allowing them to make that happen more quickly.”
Shinji Kim Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 1:00 Automated Data Discovery | Select Star's Shinji Kim
Insight
Kim: Modern data trends make data discovery painful across entire companies
“So all these market trends combined makes what we call data discovery. Very painful, not just for the data team, but for everyone inside the company.”
Shinji Kim Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 3:06 Automated Data Discovery | Select Star's Shinji Kim
Insight
Kim: Organizations rarely update data models and diagrams after initial creation
“One of the things that we noticed from observing our users is that they have data models and different diagrams that they've created when they first created the data model, but these things don't get updated.”
Shinji Kim Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 13:55 Automated Data Discovery | Select Star's Shinji Kim
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kim: Analysts and engineers make up 70% of Select Star's user base
“So today, majority of our user base, I would say about 65 to 70% are data analysts and data engineers.”
Shinji Kim Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 17:02 Automated Data Discovery | Select Star's Shinji Kim
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kim: Engineers waste massive time searching SQL queries to trace table lineage
“A lot of technical users and data analysts and engineers also ending up spending a lot of time just searching through different SQL queries and trying to find, like, how this table was created, for example.”
Shinji Kim Sep 12, 2022 ▶ 4:06 Automated Data Discovery | Select Star's Shinji Kim

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Automated Data Discovery | Select Star's Shinji Kim Sep 12, 2022 17m
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