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Mark Ross

Co-founder and CEO, GridMarkets · 1 appearance on the record.

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Mark Ross is the co-founder and CEO of GridMarkets, a cloud platform for rendering and simulations. He previously served in senior technology leadership and CIO roles at Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, and AIG.

14statements → 9claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 3.71/5average certainty → 1.14/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 5said about them ↓

2 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 5 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

9 assertions · 5 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 5 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 Mark 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
Ross: Major animated films require millions of compute hours to render
“When you get into large animations, like the ones that Disney and other movies studios produce, you're literally talking about millions of computer hours that are needed to produce those kinds of movies.”
Mark Ross Oct 11, 2016 ▶ 13:50 EP 444: $1.5M in MRR, SaaS, Helping Studios Render Film Faster with GridMarkets CEO Mark Ross

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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: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Mark Ross on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Mark Ross said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ross: GridMarkets cuts rendering turnaround from months to hours
“We serve studios who make movies, animations, and special effects, and they would use our service to submit what's called rendering and simulation, which is a very computationally intensive application, and through a button that they can push in their applicat…”
Mark Ross Oct 11, 2016 ▶ 2:35 EP 444: $1.5M in MRR, SaaS, Helping Studios Render Film Faster with GridMarkets CEO Mark Ross
Assertion Partly supported
Ross: Roughly 80% of Global HPC Servers Sit Powered and Idle
“So today there are roughly 80% of the high performance computing servers that are in the world are not being used. They're idle. They're electrified. They're racked and stacked, but they're just sitting there waiting for something to come to them.”
Mark Ross Oct 11, 2016 ▶ 3:19 EP 444: $1.5M in MRR, SaaS, Helping Studios Render Film Faster with GridMarkets CEO Mark Ross
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ross: GridMarkets generates around $1.6 million in monthly revenue
“In that neighborhood. Yeah.”
Mark Ross Oct 11, 2016 ▶ 11:23 EP 444: $1.5M in MRR, SaaS, Helping Studios Render Film Faster with GridMarkets CEO Mark Ross
Disclosure
Ross: GridMarkets Requires No SLAs or Machine Commitments from Compute Suppliers
“It's an arrangement that really does not require a service level agreement with our suppliers. It doesn't require any commitment for them to provide us any, you know, specific amount of machines. The reason for that is we've built a grid, so if one supplier's …”
Mark Ross Oct 11, 2016 ▶ 4:09 EP 444: $1.5M in MRR, SaaS, Helping Studios Render Film Faster with GridMarkets CEO Mark Ross
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ross: GridMarkets processes over 1M credit hours monthly
“Well, we've I would say we're in the probably just over the millions, million mark at the moment.”
Mark Ross Oct 11, 2016 ▶ 7:34 EP 444: $1.5M in MRR, SaaS, Helping Studios Render Film Faster with GridMarkets CEO Mark Ross
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ross: GridMarkets currently serves over 700 customers
“We have over 700 at the moment.”
Mark Ross Oct 11, 2016 ▶ 10:41 EP 444: $1.5M in MRR, SaaS, Helping Studios Render Film Faster with GridMarkets CEO Mark Ross
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ross: Rendering a standard 1-minute ad requires ~100 servers for 3–4 days
“A typical job will take probably around a hundred machines working potentially over a three to four day period. And that, that configuration would produce a typical advertisement. So, you know, maybe, maybe a minute long, or maybe a bit longer than that.”
Mark Ross Oct 11, 2016 ▶ 13:30 EP 444: $1.5M in MRR, SaaS, Helping Studios Render Film Faster with GridMarkets CEO Mark Ross
Assertion Supported
Ross: Major animated films require millions of compute hours to render
“When you get into large animations, like the ones that Disney and other movies studios produce, you're literally talking about millions of computer hours that are needed to produce those kinds of movies.”
Mark Ross Oct 11, 2016 ▶ 13:50 EP 444: $1.5M in MRR, SaaS, Helping Studios Render Film Faster with GridMarkets CEO Mark Ross
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Ross: GridMarkets charges about $1.60 per credit hour
“So after that, right now, we're offering credit hours at around a dollar 60 US per credit per, per credit hour, excuse me.”
Mark Ross Oct 11, 2016 ▶ 7:15 EP 444: $1.5M in MRR, SaaS, Helping Studios Render Film Faster with GridMarkets CEO Mark Ross
Disclosure
Mark Ross: GridMarkets Backed by 10 Angels from Major Financial Firms
“My partner and I have put money into the company, and we've had 10 angels invest in the company, and these are pretty noteworthy people from senior, senior level positions in financial services companies including Goldman Sachs, Bank of America. Here in San Fr…”
Mark Ross Oct 11, 2016 ▶ 7:57 EP 444: $1.5M in MRR, SaaS, Helping Studios Render Film Faster with GridMarkets CEO Mark Ross
Disclosure
GridMarkets is seeking to raise a $2 million funding round
“So we're right now we're coming out with another round where we're looking to raise two million and we're looking for either, you know, a couple high net worth individuals who think you know, the concept that we're doing.”
Mark Ross Oct 11, 2016 ▶ 9:15 EP 444: $1.5M in MRR, SaaS, Helping Studios Render Film Faster with GridMarkets CEO Mark Ross
Assertion Supported
GridMarkets has raised roughly $1 million from founders and angels
“We've raised roughly a million thus far from our own funding and from the angel investors that I've mentioned.”
Mark Ross Oct 11, 2016 ▶ 9:31 EP 444: $1.5M in MRR, SaaS, Helping Studios Render Film Faster with GridMarkets CEO Mark Ross
Disclosure
Mark Ross: GridMarkets operates with a global team of about 20 people
“We're a global team, and we have about 20 people in, in different locations around the world.”
Mark Ross Oct 11, 2016 ▶ 11:49 EP 444: $1.5M in MRR, SaaS, Helping Studios Render Film Faster with GridMarkets CEO Mark Ross
Disclosure
Mark Ross: GridMarkets plans expansion into financial services and engineering
“Right now we're deep into animation. We want to get into financial services and engineering.”
Mark Ross Oct 11, 2016 ▶ 12:13 EP 444: $1.5M in MRR, SaaS, Helping Studios Render Film Faster with GridMarkets CEO Mark Ross

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Appearances (1)

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EP 444: $1.5M in MRR, SaaS, Helping Studios Render Film Faster with GridMarkets CEO Mark R Oct 11, 2016 10m
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