why aren't all 8 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 1 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Nanduri predicts 2.5 billion people will be knowledge workers by 2030
“By 2030, there'll be five billion middle class human beings, of which at least half of them will be knowledge workers.”
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Data scientists are highly-paid janitors who spend 80 percent of time munging
“Most of the data scientists that are highly paid and highly educated are data janitors. Because 80% of the time, they are spending time munging data.”
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Turning raw enterprise data into actionable information takes weeks or months
“It takes weeks and months, because we do this thing called taking data and preparing it, and munging it, that's the technical term, to get it to information before we can answer any of our simple questions.”
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Nanduri estimates 90 percent of enterprise data questions are simple
“And we all know that 90% of the questions we are asking in the enterprise are simple questions.”
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Nanduri notes there are currently one billion knowledge workers worldwide
“There are a billion knowledge workers in this world, and by the way, that is expanding.”
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Nanduri claims every large enterprise plans to run hybrid cloud environments
“Every one of our large customers tell us that at the end of the day, they're going to live in hybrid environments. So they are going to have, the large enterprise customers are going to be having some workloads on, in the cloud, some workloads on-premise.”
Disclosure
Paxata has over 50 enterprise customers and 77 employees
“We have over 50 customers. Our team is about 77 people.”
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Nanduri notes the web browser is roughly 8,000 days old
“The browser is about 8000 days old”