Ben Marcus
Managing Partner, UP.Partners · 1 appearance on the record.
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Ben Marcus is the co-founder and former CEO of AirMap, an airspace management platform for drones. He currently serves as Co-Founder and Managing Partner at venture firm UP.Partners.
5 supported 1 partly supported 3 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 12 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
7 predictions · 5 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 12 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 9 are resolved, and 3 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 Ben 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
Their most notable contradicted claim
Expressed certainty vs assessment result
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? →
251 words/min while actually speaking · 4.1 um and uh per 1k words
No argument clarity score for Ben Marcus: 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 14 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 3,146 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Ben Marcus 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:
Everything Ben Marcus said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
The other half of the tape: Ben Marcus'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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Every mention by year
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| 20VC: What Is The Right Drone Investing Strategy, The Catalyst That Will Take Drones to 10 | Jan 5, 2018 | 13m |