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Vance Loiselle

CEO, Adeptia · 1 appearance on the record.

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executivefounderoperator@vanceloiselle ↗adeptia.com ↗

Vance Loiselle was a co-founder of BladeLogic and served as CEO of Sumo Logic from 2012 to 2015 during its rapid growth stage. Following leadership roles at TrueMotion and Propertybase, he was appointed CEO of B2B data integration platform Adeptia.

17statements → 10claims → 2claims resolved → 3.94/5average certainty → 1.47/5average debate potential →

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 8 not checkable as stated how the 10 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 9 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 5 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 10 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 8 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 Vance 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
Sumo Logic has 150 employees and backing from Greylock, Sequoia, Accel
“Just real background, you can see where some of us came from are about a 150 people. We're backed out of the gate by Greylock, and then we just added, ah, Sequoia recently, and Excel, and Sutter Hill, and some other companies as investors.”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 1:18 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up
Global unstructured data generation will hit 20 million petabytes annually by 2016
“Within the next two years, the amount of unstructured data that will be generated is somewhere in the twenty million petabytes a year figure.”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 3:10 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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0% certainty 3
100% 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? →

275 words/min while actually speaking · 5.8 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Vance Loiselle: 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: 4,322 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 Vance Loiselle said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Sumo Logic is 'taking down Splunk hard'
“So, you know, we have one competitor out there. I'll name them. They're called Splunk. So if you're familiar with Splunk, we're taking them down, and we're taking them down hard, and they know it.”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 15:33 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Global unstructured data generation will hit 20 million petabytes annually by 2016
“Within the next two years, the amount of unstructured data that will be generated is somewhere in the twenty million petabytes a year figure.”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 3:10 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Insight
Log data holds most of its actionable value within 15 minutes
“The majority of this data, the value is within 15 minutes of it being generated.”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 4:52 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Majority of mission-critical enterprise data is already cloud-hosted
“The majority of mission critical data that's out there today is in the cloud and people don't realize it.”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 16:33 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Disclosure
Sumo Logic anomaly detection engine achieves 70% accuracy out of the box
“It's probably realistically out of the box, 70% accurate right now, but as you apply relevance to your data in your organization, it learns over time.”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 19:07 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Supported
Sumo Logic has 150 employees and backing from Greylock, Sequoia, Accel
“Just real background, you can see where some of us came from are about a 150 people. We're backed out of the gate by Greylock, and then we just added, ah, Sequoia recently, and Excel, and Sutter Hill, and some other companies as investors.”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 1:18 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Netflix generates 10 to 30 terabytes of log data daily
“Netflix is spitting out anywhere from 10 to 20 or 30 terabytes a day”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 2:16 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
A twin-engine airplane generates 40 terabytes of log data hourly
“One airplane, two engines is generating 40 terabytes of log data an hour.”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 2:45 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
One terabyte of log data equals roughly two billion events
“One terabyte is roughly about two billion events. It's two billion unique records.”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 3:55 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Midsize enterprises generate over two billion log records daily
“So even a midsize enterprise every day is generating over two billion records.”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 4:06 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Disclosure
Sumo Logic runs a 2,000-node AWS cluster
“We run about a 2000 node cluster right now in AWS.”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 5:38 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Disclosure
Sumo Logic scaled to 400 customers in four years via AWS
“Having an idea and going a gray lock to now having 400 customers in four years was not possible. You know, even 10 years ago without companies like AWS and software and so on.”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 8:28 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Disclosure
A third of Sumo Logic's engineering team are data scientists
“About a third of our engineering team are data science folks who basically build algorithms to figure out what is common about this data across hundreds of customers”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 10:14 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sumo Logic manages roughly 60,000 data collectors
“We probably have about 60,000 collectors under management today.”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 11:00 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sumo Logic ingests 15 terabytes of compressed data daily
“So we're about, we're at about 15 terabytes of compressed data per day that comes into the system.”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 12:43 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sumo Logic processes over 800,000 daily queries across four petabytes
“We do over 800,000 queries a day in our platform. So any given day, we have basically over four petabytes of data that's scanned in the platform and over 15 trillion records that people are going through.”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 12:53 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Disclosure
Sumo Logic's buyer split is 70% DevOps and 30% CISOs
“Today our business, 70% of our business comes from mission critical application buyers. Either a business owner or a DevOps person that has to make sure their mission critical app is running, and then 30% of our buyers come from the CISO”
Vance Loiselle Sep 22, 2014 ▶ 20:01 Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Vance Loiselle, Sumo Logic // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) Sep 22, 2014 18m
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