Bob Ghoorah

Co-Founder and Managing Director, Quarry Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Bob Ghoorah is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Quarry Ventures. He previously served as Managing Director at Columbus Nova Technology Partners and held early executive roles at Loudcloud, Opsware, and Ning.

11statements → 4claims → 2claims resolved → 3.82/5average certainty → 2.36/5average debate potential →

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 2 assertions · 2 opinions · 5 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are 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 Bob 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
Ghoorah: Uber completed 2M rides on New Year's Eve
“They did two million rides On New Year's Eve at one point it was 58 destinations a second.”
Bob Ghoorah Jan 13, 2015 ▶ 19:12 20 VC 003: Bob Ghoorah on Startups, The Pitch and Uber

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up
Ghoorah: The first trillion-dollar company will be in healthcare
“I think it's going to be in healthcare.”
Bob Ghoorah Jan 13, 2015 ▶ 20:40 20 VC 003: Bob Ghoorah on Startups, The Pitch and Uber

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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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? →

206 words/min while actually speaking · 93.6 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Bob Ghoorah: only 2 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.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,415 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 →

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

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ghoorah: Monopolies ultimately win in tech and Google is effectively a monopoly
“Monopolies are what, you know, ultimately win and you know, Google's a monopoly, so effectively”
Bob Ghoorah Jan 13, 2015 ▶ 15:56 20 VC 003: Bob Ghoorah on Startups, The Pitch and Uber
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ghoorah: Uber will grow into and exceed its $40B valuation
“Uber certainly is a company that can grow into that valuation and frankly exceed it.”
Bob Ghoorah Jan 13, 2015 ▶ 19:04 20 VC 003: Bob Ghoorah on Startups, The Pitch and Uber
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Ghoorah: The first trillion-dollar company will be in healthcare
“I think it's going to be in healthcare.”
Bob Ghoorah Jan 13, 2015 ▶ 20:40 20 VC 003: Bob Ghoorah on Startups, The Pitch and Uber
Opinion
Ghoorah: Late-stage tech valuations are in a bubble
“Well there is definitely in my opinion, humble opinion a bubble in valuations. Valuations in particular at the late stage are just sort of off the charts.”
Bob Ghoorah Jan 13, 2015 ▶ 18:41 20 VC 003: Bob Ghoorah on Startups, The Pitch and Uber
Insight
Ghoorah: Best founders solve problems they personally experienced and care about
“The very best entrepreneurs, in my view, are the ones that are solving a problem and creating a business around that solution and you know, have personal experience and passion for you know, for that problem, so.”
Bob Ghoorah Jan 13, 2015 ▶ 5:04 20 VC 003: Bob Ghoorah on Startups, The Pitch and Uber
Insight
Ghoorah: Uber is fundamentally a logistics and data engine ready to expand
“Yeah, I think that there's absolutely an opportunity for that company to get into adjacent market spaces. At the end of the day, I think it's kind of a core logistics Company, as well as a data company. And you know, you can have, you can apply those two core …”
Bob Ghoorah Jan 13, 2015 ▶ 7:55 20 VC 003: Bob Ghoorah on Startups, The Pitch and Uber
Insight
Ghoorah: Software is beginning to transform the aviation industry
“Software is eating the world, and aviation is, you know no exception.”
Bob Ghoorah Jan 13, 2015 ▶ 11:06 20 VC 003: Bob Ghoorah on Startups, The Pitch and Uber
Insight
Ghoorah: Founders possess more market expertise than VCs during pitches
“When an entrepreneur walks in, you know, I would say probably invariably, you know, the majority of time they're the expert.”
Bob Ghoorah Jan 13, 2015 ▶ 11:57 20 VC 003: Bob Ghoorah on Startups, The Pitch and Uber
Insight
Ghoorah: Silicon Valley concentrates an entire tech ecosystem within 25 miles
“One of the unique advantages the Valley has is that the ecosystem is so developed and so broad. You've basically got everything that you need to build a you know, a great technology company all within a 25 mile radius. You know, the talent the investors, the n…”
Bob Ghoorah Jan 13, 2015 ▶ 13:15 20 VC 003: Bob Ghoorah on Startups, The Pitch and Uber
Opinion
Ghoorah: Google Glass is a viable platform with strong developer backing
“Yeah, but I think the developer community is you know, strong, and I think it's a really viable platform but these things take time, that, you know, it's not an overnight thing.”
Bob Ghoorah Jan 13, 2015 ▶ 7:39 20 VC 003: Bob Ghoorah on Startups, The Pitch and Uber
Assertion Supported
Ghoorah: Uber completed 2M rides on New Year's Eve
“They did two million rides On New Year's Eve at one point it was 58 destinations a second.”
Bob Ghoorah Jan 13, 2015 ▶ 19:12 20 VC 003: Bob Ghoorah on Startups, The Pitch and Uber

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC 003: Bob Ghoorah on Startups, The Pitch and Uber Jan 13, 2015 14m
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