Zach Sherman

Founder, Hyper · 1 appearance on the record.

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Zach Sherman co-founded Timber Technologies, the creator of Vector, which was acquired by Datadog in 2021. He later launched video collaboration platform Hyper, co-founded home sauna company Haven, and invests via Whoa Ventures.

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

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305 words/min while actually speaking · 30.1 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Zach Sherman: 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: 2,194 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 Zach Sherman said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sherman: Expensive Splunk bills are one of Timber's most common customer complaints
“One of the most common complaints that we hear is how expensive people's Splunk bills are. Can't tell you how many times I've heard that.”
Zach Sherman Dec 5, 2018 ▶ 10:48 A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Insight
Sherman advises against building logging or metrics systems from scratch
“I would recommend you don't build a logging or metric system from scratch, and you pull something off the shelf.”
Zach Sherman Dec 5, 2018 ▶ 13:35 A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sherman: Timber reduced its data pipeline costs by about 90%
“And we actually reduce the cost of our pipeline by about 90% by doing this.”
Zach Sherman Dec 5, 2018 ▶ 9:55 A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
A New Kind of Logging System // Zach Sherman & Ben Johnson, Timber (FirstMark's Data Drive Dec 5, 2018 8m
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