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Bart Lorang

Co-Founder & Partner, V1.VC · 1 appearance on the record.

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Bart Lorang is best known as the co-founder and former longtime CEO of identity resolution and contact management platform FullContact, which was acquired by Ziff Davis in 2024. He also co-founded seed-stage venture fund V1.VC and guides leadership teams implementing the Entrepreneurial Operating System at Meritage.

12statements → 3claims → 1claims resolved → 3.67/5average certainty → 2.5/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 1said about them ↓

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

2 predictions · 1 assertion · 9 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 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 Bart 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
FullContact pays employees $7,500 annually to take fully disconnected vacations
“Paid, paid vacation is a thing that we came up with about five years ago at Full Contact, and we pay every employee 7500 dollars once a year to take a vacation, and that's on top of their existing paid vacation salary, so they get a 7500 dollar stipend to go t…”
Bart Lorang Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 15:41 20VC: Why Every CEO's Goal Should Be To Be The Laziest CEO, The Benefits of Being Both Founder and Investor At The Same Time & Why Every CEO Should Try A CEO Coach with Bart Lorang, Founder & CEO @ Full Contact

How they sound: speaking style how? →

237 words/min while actually speaking · 6.3 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Bart Lorang: 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 13 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 3,028 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Bart Lorang 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 ▾ 2/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 0/10
setup questions received 45%

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

Insight
Lorang: CEOs must spend 10% of their salary on personal growth
“If you're not spending 10% of your salary every year in your company on your own personal growth and development, like you're literally suboptimizing the company.”
Bart Lorang Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 9:10 20VC: Why Every CEO's Goal Should Be To Be The Laziest CEO, The Benefits of Being Both Founder and Investor At The Same Time & Why Every CEO Should Try A CEO Coach with Bart Lorang, Founder & CEO @ Full Contact
Insight
Lorang: Early-stage deals relying on marginal IRR differences are bad investments
“If the IRR is 12% or 14%, and it's that close, like, it's probably not a good deal. It's got to be, like, no-brainer stuff that is just like, oh, if it works. If it doesn't, it's a zero.”
Bart Lorang Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 12:25 20VC: Why Every CEO's Goal Should Be To Be The Laziest CEO, The Benefits of Being Both Founder and Investor At The Same Time & Why Every CEO Should Try A CEO Coach with Bart Lorang, Founder & CEO @ Full Contact
Insight
Lorang: Companies should capture over 50% of the value they create
“I don't know if I agree with that. I think that it should be over 50% if you had to put me, pay me to a number. I think you'd always leave things on the table, but that's But that's, that goes to the relationship dynamics.”
Bart Lorang Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 13:35 20VC: Why Every CEO's Goal Should Be To Be The Laziest CEO, The Benefits of Being Both Founder and Investor At The Same Time & Why Every CEO Should Try A CEO Coach with Bart Lorang, Founder & CEO @ Full Contact
Assertion Supported
FullContact pays employees $7,500 annually to take fully disconnected vacations
“Paid, paid vacation is a thing that we came up with about five years ago at Full Contact, and we pay every employee 7500 dollars once a year to take a vacation, and that's on top of their existing paid vacation salary, so they get a 7500 dollar stipend to go t…”
Bart Lorang Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 15:41 20VC: Why Every CEO's Goal Should Be To Be The Laziest CEO, The Benefits of Being Both Founder and Investor At The Same Time & Why Every CEO Should Try A CEO Coach with Bart Lorang, Founder & CEO @ Full Contact
Insight
Lorang: Focus and simplification can cut work hours from 70 to 35
“People realize that you don't actually have to work 70 hours. You can actually knock it out in 35 hours, maybe, and if Just actually focus and simplify and declutter.”
Bart Lorang Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 17:25 20VC: Why Every CEO's Goal Should Be To Be The Laziest CEO, The Benefits of Being Both Founder and Investor At The Same Time & Why Every CEO Should Try A CEO Coach with Bart Lorang, Founder & CEO @ Full Contact
Insight
Lorang: Executive control is a myth; leaders control basically nothing
“Control is a word that we should probably eliminate. It's a falsehood that we control. We control basically nothing, and I've given up a lot of control in my company in terms of my management style is very, very hands-off, or I like to think so.”
Bart Lorang Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 19:45 20VC: Why Every CEO's Goal Should Be To Be The Laziest CEO, The Benefits of Being Both Founder and Investor At The Same Time & Why Every CEO Should Try A CEO Coach with Bart Lorang, Founder & CEO @ Full Contact
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lorang aims to be a lazy CEO who reads and meditates
“So my goal is to be the lazy CEO that actually just shows up every day, maybe reads, maybe meditates, maybe answers an email or two but actually doesn't have to do much.”
Bart Lorang Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 20:38 20VC: Why Every CEO's Goal Should Be To Be The Laziest CEO, The Benefits of Being Both Founder and Investor At The Same Time & Why Every CEO Should Try A CEO Coach with Bart Lorang, Founder & CEO @ Full Contact
Insight
Lorang: Coaching other founders reveals hidden flaws in your own company
“The act of, like, coaching somebody else to a problem sometimes reveals things inside your own company that are screwed up, and we all have things that are screwed up.”
Bart Lorang Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 5:54 20VC: Why Every CEO's Goal Should Be To Be The Laziest CEO, The Benefits of Being Both Founder and Investor At The Same Time & Why Every CEO Should Try A CEO Coach with Bart Lorang, Founder & CEO @ Full Contact
Insight
Lorang: Scaling a startup shifts the CEO's job to capital allocation
“As a CEO, as your company grows and scales, your job becomes more about capital allocation and where you're placing your bets, right?”
Bart Lorang Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 6:11 20VC: Why Every CEO's Goal Should Be To Be The Laziest CEO, The Benefits of Being Both Founder and Investor At The Same Time & Why Every CEO Should Try A CEO Coach with Bart Lorang, Founder & CEO @ Full Contact
Insight
Lorang: CEOs should only schedule 50% of their work calendars
“So my rule of thumb is only schedule 50% of your calendar. Don't schedule 40 hours a week of meetings.”
Bart Lorang Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 10:50 20VC: Why Every CEO's Goal Should Be To Be The Laziest CEO, The Benefits of Being Both Founder and Investor At The Same Time & Why Every CEO Should Try A CEO Coach with Bart Lorang, Founder & CEO @ Full Contact
Insight
Lorang: Sales reps leave money on table chasing quarterly commissions
“So, you know, and a lot of times sales reps do this where there, there's clearly a bigger opportunity, but they're optimizing for their commission this quarter and they're actually leaving a Big pile of money on the table because they're optimizing for their c…”
Bart Lorang Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 14:59 20VC: Why Every CEO's Goal Should Be To Be The Laziest CEO, The Benefits of Being Both Founder and Investor At The Same Time & Why Every CEO Should Try A CEO Coach with Bart Lorang, Founder & CEO @ Full Contact
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lorang: FullContact will be public or IPO-ready by 2022
“I think in five years, right, full contact will either be a public company or ready to be public.”
Bart Lorang Jun 23, 2017 ▶ 20:27 20VC: Why Every CEO's Goal Should Be To Be The Laziest CEO, The Benefits of Being Both Founder and Investor At The Same Time & Why Every CEO Should Try A CEO Coach with Bart Lorang, Founder & CEO @ Full Contact

The other half of the tape: Bart Lorang's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 1 time in 1 episode on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

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20VC: Why Every CEO's Goal Should Be To Be The Laziest CEO, The Benefits of Being Both Fou Jun 23, 2017 14m
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