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Todd Mostak

Founder & CEO, MapD · 1 appearance on the record.

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13statements → 12claims → 6claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 3.92/5average certainty → 1.85/5average debate potential →

4 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted 6 not checkable as stated how the 12 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 10 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 12 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, and 6 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 Todd argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Mostak: Tableau data extracts fail on datasets exceeding 100 million rows
“Tableau extracts are great, but they kind of fall over, either when the extract gets over a hundred million rows, a few hundred million rows, or when you have, like, streaming data doing the system.”
Todd Mostak Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 17:16 The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up
Mostak: Storage costs will drop below eight dollars per terabyte by 2020
“They're saying that by 20 20, you'll be able to buy a terabyte of storage for less than eight dollars.”
Todd Mostak Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 0:59 The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
0% certainty 3
90% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: speaking style how? →

282 words/min while actually speaking · 36.7 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Todd Mostak: 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: 3,654 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 Todd Mostak said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mostak in 2017: GPUs will dominate computing over the next decade
“We're at an inflection point where the growth in data is outpacing the growth in compute, and I believe, I strongly believe, I'm a little biased, but, ah, that GPUs are set to kind of become a dominant force in compute over the coming decade. Ah, they already …”
Todd Mostak Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 13:38 The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mostak: MapD queries billions of records in milliseconds on a single server
“And that's why we can run queries over billions of records in milliseconds, even on a single server.”
Todd Mostak Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 4:50 The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
Mostak: Tableau data extracts fail on datasets exceeding 100 million rows
“Tableau extracts are great, but they kind of fall over, either when the extract gets over a hundred million rows, a few hundred million rows, or when you have, like, streaming data doing the system.”
Todd Mostak Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 17:16 The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mostak: GPUs deliver 100x speedups over CPUs for analytics workloads
“Using graphics cards to accelerate data warehouse and visual analytic workloads, literally getting hundred-x speed-ups over what you would get on a CPU solution.”
Todd Mostak Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 0:18 The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
Mostak: CPU power growth lags behind 40% annual data volume growth
“Data is growing at 40% year over year, CPU processing power is only growing at a 20% year over year rate.”
Todd Mostak Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 1:13 The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Partly supported
Mostak: A single 2017 GPU server rivals a 2007 top-ten supercomputer
“In fact, you're basically getting a supercomputer in a box, something that would have been a top 10 supercomputer 10 years ago on a single server today.”
Todd Mostak Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 2:48 The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mostak: MapD scans GPU-cached data at up to six terabytes per second
“So we can actually, once the data's in GPU RAM, we can scan that data At rates approaching six terabytes a second.”
Todd Mostak Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 4:44 The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
Mostak: MapD queries all data live without relying on pre-aggregation
“One of the great things about MapD is that we're not just pre-aggregating the data, that we're actually querying all the data live.”
Todd Mostak Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 11:03 The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mostak: Machine learning cannot yet automatically derive insights from raw data
“Machine learning has not gotten to the point where you can just point at a data and say, give me the insights.”
Todd Mostak Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 19:27 The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Mostak: Storage costs will drop below eight dollars per terabyte by 2020
“They're saying that by 20 20, you'll be able to buy a terabyte of storage for less than eight dollars.”
Todd Mostak Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 0:59 The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Disclosure
Mostak: MapD streams live Kafka data for a top social media giant
“One of our clients is one of the largest social media companies in the world, and we actually pull in streaming data via Kafka.”
Todd Mostak Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 3:57 The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mostak: Verizon's queries on billions of records previously took over an hour
“So Verizon, before using our platform, some of their queries over tens of billions of records of call data records Would literally take, ah, an hour or more on a standard kind of data warehouse platform.”
Todd Mostak Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 14:22 The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
Mostak: Enterprise data volumes are growing by 40 percent year-over-year
“Basically, it's doubling in less than every three years, or 40% year-over-year growth.”
Todd Mostak Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 0:32 The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven) Apr 6, 2017 15m
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