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Ari Mir

Co-Founder, Clutter · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ari Mir is the co-founder and former CEO of on-demand moving and storage company Clutter. Prior to Clutter, he co-founded in-image contextual advertising platform GumGum, Google Ventures-backed startup Pocket Change, and mobile media company MoJungle.

8statements → 3claims → 2claims resolved → 4.25/5average certainty → 2.75/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 1said about them ↓

0 supported 0 partly supported 2 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 2 assertions · 4 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 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 Ari argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Mir: Clutter's early employees all had finance backgrounds
“Every single person we employed in the early days had a finance background.”
Ari Mir Jun 30, 2017 ▶ 16:44 20VC: Why You Do Not Want Diversity Of Thought, Why You Have To Build A Sports Team and Not A Family & Why Extreme Cultures Are Easier For People To Understand with Ari Mir, Founder @ Clutter

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
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0% certainty 4
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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: speaking style how? →

187 words/min while actually speaking · 1.5 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Ari Mir: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 8 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.5/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.

Measured by listening to 2,666 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Ari Mir is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

How the interview went all their pushback → series average →

Across 1 rated episode:

host pushback ▾ 6/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 4/10
setup questions received 45%

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

Insight
Mir: Early-stage startups should avoid diversity of thought in favor of alignment
“But what we don't want, which I think is not commonly supported by other early stage startups is what we don't really want at this stage is diversity of thoughts, and I know that doesn't make sense. It's a little counterintuitive, but the reason why we don't i…”
Ari Mir Jun 30, 2017 ▶ 13:31 20VC: Why You Do Not Want Diversity Of Thought, Why You Have To Build A Sports Team and Not A Family & Why Extreme Cultures Are Easier For People To Understand with Ari Mir, Founder @ Clutter
Insight
Ari Mir: Managers should invest time in top performers, not low performers
“We fundamentally don't believe it's fair to the rest of the team for us to continue to invest in you. What's more fair is that we invest more of our time in the top performers within the company and help them really create an exponential return to their invest…”
Ari Mir Jun 30, 2017 ▶ 10:09 20VC: Why You Do Not Want Diversity Of Thought, Why You Have To Build A Sports Team and Not A Family & Why Extreme Cultures Are Easier For People To Understand with Ari Mir, Founder @ Clutter
Insight
Ari Mir: Company culture is hiring and performance management, not perks
“Culture is not happy hour. It's not a foosball table. It's not swag. Culture is Your hiring methodology and your performance management methodology.”
Ari Mir Jun 30, 2017 ▶ 4:36 20VC: Why You Do Not Want Diversity Of Thought, Why You Have To Build A Sports Team and Not A Family & Why Extreme Cultures Are Easier For People To Understand with Ari Mir, Founder @ Clutter
Insight
Mir: Extreme company culture is easier to understand than gray area culture
“I like to always say an extreme culture is much easier for people to understand, whether it's on one end or another, it doesn't matter. Just it being an extreme culture is actually much easier for team members to understand than having a mediocre culture that'…”
Ari Mir Jun 30, 2017 ▶ 11:19 20VC: Why You Do Not Want Diversity Of Thought, Why You Have To Build A Sports Team and Not A Family & Why Extreme Cultures Are Easier For People To Understand with Ari Mir, Founder @ Clutter
Assertion Contradicted
Mir: Clutter's early employees all had finance backgrounds
“Every single person we employed in the early days had a finance background.”
Ari Mir Jun 30, 2017 ▶ 16:44 20VC: Why You Do Not Want Diversity Of Thought, Why You Have To Build A Sports Team and Not A Family & Why Extreme Cultures Are Easier For People To Understand with Ari Mir, Founder @ Clutter
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mir: Clutter achieves positive gross profit across all operating regions
“Even though it's only been two years into our company, we are producing positive unit economics on our customers. We're producing a positive gross profit in every single region that we operate in.”
Ari Mir Jun 30, 2017 ▶ 17:17 20VC: Why You Do Not Want Diversity Of Thought, Why You Have To Build A Sports Team and Not A Family & Why Extreme Cultures Are Easier For People To Understand with Ari Mir, Founder @ Clutter
Disclosure
Ari Mir: Clutter uses random work audits and strict performance timelines
“We will randomly audit your work at any point within the first six months. And we'll do this several times to be clear. And what we're looking for is one of three different outcomes. The first is that the audit shows your work product is amazing. What then hap…”
Ari Mir Jun 30, 2017 ▶ 9:14 20VC: Why You Do Not Want Diversity Of Thought, Why You Have To Build A Sports Team and Not A Family & Why Extreme Cultures Are Easier For People To Understand with Ari Mir, Founder @ Clutter
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Clutter plans expansion to top 25 NFL cities within three years
“We're excited by our sixty-four million dollar Series C announcement that we recently made that was led by Atomico, and that capital is primarily going to be used for Aggressive geo expansion. And so, you'll see us in the top 25 NFL cities over the next two to…”
Ari Mir Jun 30, 2017 ▶ 19:49 20VC: Why You Do Not Want Diversity Of Thought, Why You Have To Build A Sports Team and Not A Family & Why Extreme Cultures Are Easier For People To Understand with Ari Mir, Founder @ Clutter

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20VC: Why You Do Not Want Diversity Of Thought, Why You Have To Build A Sports Team and No Jun 30, 2017 15m
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