Estimating Enterprise Search Returns
March 8, 2015
I read an interesting statement about financial forecasts in “Investigator Was Told Women Made More Money for Kleiner.” Keep in mind I am not sure about the accuracy of information disseminated in the course of legal proceedings. One has to be there and be part of a legal team involved in the matter to get a sense of the “truth.”
Attorney Stephen Hirschfeld, hired by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers to probe allegations of discrimination against the firm, testified in a San Francisco courtroom today that then-partner Trae Vassallo had run the numbers on both male and female partners. According to her calculations, the women came out ahead of the men in multiple measures of profitability. Even so, the men forecasted higher revenues for their investments than the women, Hirschfeld said Vassallo told him.
I have highlighted the assertion/factoid that caught my attention. It would seem that the wild and crazy estimates about the revenue from search and content processing investments cut across gender. For example, there are the folks at Attivio, BA Insight, and Coveo who have to generate sustainable revenue and healthy profits for their stakeholders. But these outfits’ estimates pale in comparison with the billions IBM Watson will spin in the time it takes to get a stack of pancakes at IHOP. Isn’t IBM’s chief estimator a female?
Stephen E Arnold, March 8, 2015
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