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Alex Bangash

Managing Director, Transpose Platform · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alex Bangash is the founder of Trusted Insight and co-founder of Transpose Platform, backing early-stage venture funds and technology startups. Over a multi-decade career that began advising endowments and family offices through Rumson Group, he has deployed billions of dollars into top-tier venture funds.

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1 prediction · 7 assertions · 2 opinions · 5 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 4 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 Alex 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
Half to two-thirds of venture capital managers lose money
“In most asset classes, a third to a quarter of managers lose money. In venture, that, that could be, depending on the vintage, that could be half, two-thirds of the managers.”
Alex Bangash Jul 20, 2016 ▶ 11:17 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Series A funding has become the fourth or fifth institutional round
“So almost the series A has become the fourth or fifth institutional round.”
Alex Bangash Jul 20, 2016 ▶ 18:12 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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

3.9 / 5 directness 3.8 · coherence 3.8 · precision 3.8 · compression 3.3

redirected or did not address 2 of 13 assessed questions (15%). Watch them ▸

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How they sound: speaking style how? →

183 words/min while actually speaking · 43 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,883 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:

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setup questions received 25%

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

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Venture capital performance persistence is a myth due to high fund churn
“So for all this talk of we see being increasingly persistent the reality is it's not. And the reality is that there is a huge churn in venture capital.”
Alex Bangash Jul 20, 2016 ▶ 5:15 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
Insight
Underperforming VCs survive by continually raising capital from lower-tier LPs
“Amongst the established managers, if you are a traditional quote-unquote VC not an incubator, accelerator, post-accelerator, what is, what's actually happening is that there is always this theory of a bigger fool. So what happens to them is that they might not…”
Alex Bangash Jul 20, 2016 ▶ 13:34 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
Assertion Partly supported
Four of the top 10 Midas VCs lacked firms 10 years ago
“Four out of the top 10 VCs, Steve Anderson, Chris Saka, Josh Copeland, Peter Thiel, In that they didn't have firms 10 years ago, right?”
Alex Bangash Jul 20, 2016 ▶ 4:51 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
Insight
Venture capital is inverted because entrepreneurs select their fund managers
“Today, the entrepreneurs are picking the managers. This is in stark contrast to any other asset class. So in any other asset class, you can look at a great manager and you can assess their ability to pick securities. Ok, so it's a security selection. So ventur…”
Alex Bangash Jul 20, 2016 ▶ 7:47 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
Assertion Supported
Half to two-thirds of venture capital managers lose money
“In most asset classes, a third to a quarter of managers lose money. In venture, that, that could be, depending on the vintage, that could be half, two-thirds of the managers.”
Alex Bangash Jul 20, 2016 ▶ 11:17 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
Prediction Not checkable as stated
AngelList-style platforms will become some of the top venture managers
“So we think some of the best managers, which I will actually be platforms like AngelList.”
Alex Bangash Jul 20, 2016 ▶ 11:38 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Baseline venture capital return expectations have dropped from 3-5x to 2x net
“The return expectation of venture used to be three to five X and above, and now there are folks in the industry that are perfectly fine with a two X net return because internally their return expectations are much, much lower.”
Alex Bangash Jul 20, 2016 ▶ 14:30 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
Assertion Contradicted
Series A funding has become the fourth or fifth institutional round
“So almost the series A has become the fourth or fifth institutional round.”
Alex Bangash Jul 20, 2016 ▶ 18:12 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
Assertion Contradicted
Over 90 percent of venture capital avoids true early-stage deals
“There was close to forty billion raised last year, 14, fifteen billion in Q-one. 90%, 90 to 95% of that Is not going into true early stage.”
Alex Bangash Jul 20, 2016 ▶ 18:26 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
Insight
Top-performing small venture capital funds should target 5x to 10x net returns
“My thinking is that if a smaller fund is worthy to be invested in they should have a shot at five to 10 X.”
Alex Bangash Jul 20, 2016 ▶ 19:19 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
Insight
Institutional LPs struggle to identify disruptive entrepreneur-led VC funds early
“The entrepreneur-led models, which, by the way, tend to do, you know the most of, the most disruptive new models are very hard for institutional investors to identify.”
Alex Bangash Jul 20, 2016 ▶ 6:58 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
Opinion
Artificial intelligence is as fundamentally disruptive as the early web
“And the next big wave, as we talked about, AI is, Is almost as fundamentally disruptive as the web was.”
Alex Bangash Jul 20, 2016 ▶ 12:24 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
Opinion
Small VC funds succeed by avoiding direct competition with Tier-1 firms
“The nice thing I like about some of these small funds is that they don't compete in their sector, in their geography, in their states. They don't compete with Sequoia and Excel, benchmark, and increase. So they are dominant. They will never lose to them becaus…”
Alex Bangash Jul 20, 2016 ▶ 20:37 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Most LPs still lack operational and technical backgrounds
“I would say that there are definitely some exceptions, but by and large that is still true.”
Alex Bangash Jul 20, 2016 ▶ 3:45 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
Insight
The best investment returns are found where others cannot invest
“In every asset class, in every sector, the best returns are always in places where others can't invest.”
Alex Bangash Jul 20, 2016 ▶ 17:01 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Jul 20, 2016 18m
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