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Adam Nash

Co-Founder and CEO, Daffy · 1 appearance on the record.

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Adam Nash is the co-founder and CEO of Daffy, a fintech platform for donor-advised funds. He previously served as President and CEO of Wealthfront and held executive product leadership roles at LinkedIn, Dropbox, eBay, and Apple.

8statements → 6claims → 5claims resolved → 80%fully supported → 3.88/5average certainty → 1.75/5average debate potential → 4.2/5argument clarity · the sources → 7said about them ↓

4 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 4 assertions · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, and 1 names 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 Adam 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

Prediction Held up
Automated financial advice will see major adoption by 2021, predicts Adam Nash
“Right now, people are fairly skeptical about this idea that we can move beyond automating investment and move to automating financial advice. But I think within the next three to five years, you're going to see phenomenal improvements in detailed, personalized…”
Adam Nash Aug 12, 2016 ▶ 25:58 20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
100% certainty 3
100% certainty 4
75% 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

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

4.2 / 5 directness 4.2 · coherence 4.6 · precision 4.2 · compression 3.6

answered every one of 12 assessed questions directly

This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →

How they sound: speaking style how? →

251 words/min while actually speaking · 30.4 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,534 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 →

How the interview went all their pushback → series average →

Across 1 rated episode:

host pushback ▾ 2/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 2/10
setup questions received 90%

Everything Adam Nash said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Computers will outperform human financial advisors by 2026, predicts Adam Nash
“At Wealthfront, we actually believe that over the next 10 years, we're going to see computers do this better than their human counterparts.”
Adam Nash Aug 12, 2016 ▶ 19:44 20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
Prediction Held up
Automated financial advice will see major adoption by 2021, predicts Adam Nash
“Right now, people are fairly skeptical about this idea that we can move beyond automating investment and move to automating financial advice. But I think within the next three to five years, you're going to see phenomenal improvements in detailed, personalized…”
Adam Nash Aug 12, 2016 ▶ 25:58 20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
Assertion Supported
Retail investors underperform the market by 4.5 percentage points, says Adam Nash
“The doll bar research indicates that individuals underperform the market, not by 10 or 20 basis points, not by half a percent, but by four to four and a half percent, depending on the time period.”
Adam Nash Aug 12, 2016 ▶ 17:30 20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
Insight
Nash: Reid Hoffman's handover to Jeff Weiner is the model CEO transition
“You know, Reid Hoffman, who I'm very close with is obviously the founder and has been the person guiding LinkedIn since the get-go, but the way that he brought Jeff Wiener on board and kind of empowered him to run that company I think is a model for how those …”
Adam Nash Aug 12, 2016 ▶ 3:26 20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
Assertion Supported
Wealthfront approached $4 billion in AUM and 75,000 clients in 2016
“And now to see us getting close to, you know, four billion dollars and you know, over 75,000 clients and see the entire industry reshaping so that everyone's going to offer an automated service.”
Adam Nash Aug 12, 2016 ▶ 25:21 20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
Insight
Adam Nash: Product managers must define the game and set metrics
“The best product managers do a good job for their cross-functional teams of leading them by defining what game they're playing. And then second, how do you keep score?”
Adam Nash Aug 12, 2016 ▶ 5:16 20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
Assertion Supported
Wealthfront grew from 17 to approximately 140 employees under Adam Nash
“When I joined Wealthfront there were 17 people at the company and now we're just about a 140.”
Adam Nash Aug 12, 2016 ▶ 10:57 20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
Assertion Partly supported
LinkedIn had no dedicated user experience team in early 2007
“When I joined LinkedIn in the beginning of 2007 they didn't even have a user experience team, right?”
Adam Nash Aug 12, 2016 ▶ 14:21 20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing

The other half of the tape: Adam Nash's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 7 times in 4 episodes on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Tomer London 4Nick Shalek 1Kelly Peeler 1Harry Stebbings 1

Every mention by year

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing Aug 12, 2016 20m
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