Brian Garrett

Founding Partner, Crosscut Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Brian Garrett is the Founding Partner at Crosscut Ventures. Prior to venture capital, he held an operating role at Quepasa.com and co-founded vertical e-commerce brand StyleSaint.com.

5statements → 1claims → 1claims resolved → 3.8/5average certainty → 2.4/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated →

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted how the 1 claim stands · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 1 opinion · 2 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. 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 Brian 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

Prediction Held up

Brian Garrett limits his investment cadence to two or three deals annually

“I only try to do two or three deals a year.”

Brian Garrett Feb 5, 2018 ▶ 15:19 20VC: Why Vulnerability Is A Strength In VC, 3 Core Components That Make The Most Successful VCs & How VCs and Entrepreneurs Can Build Meaningful Relationships Pre-Investment with Brian Garrett, Founding Partner @ Crosscut Ventures

How they sound: speaking style how? →

213 words/min while actually speaking · 0.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Brian Garrett: 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 18 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 3,256 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Brian Garrett 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 ▾ 3/10

pushed back at the host 1/10

setup questions received 55%

host pushback: the hardest questions Harry asked, tap to play ▶ 8:26“Can I ask, when you look at the kind of premier tier one VCs on the West Coast who maybe have Certain elements of their ego and kind of confidence, let's put it, that we discussed …” ▶ 9:17“So if we translate that humility to the entrepreneurs themselves and kind of moving to the entrepreneurial class, does humility not go contra the idea of the Steve Jobs light visio…” ▶ 12:24“How do you think about that, and what can be done to ensure maybe this culture of transparency without it massively affecting the startup, getting in tech crunch, and kind of ruini…”

What they said5 Episodes1

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

Opinion

Brian Garrett: The venture capital industry is driven by ego and greed

“Industry generally is driven by ego and greed, and I think it brings out some of the bad side of humanity.”

Brian Garrett Feb 5, 2018 ▶ 7:08 20VC: Why Vulnerability Is A Strength In VC, 3 Core Components That Make The Most Successful VCs & How VCs and Entrepreneurs Can Build Meaningful Relationships Pre-Investment with Brian Garrett, Founding Partner @ Crosscut Ventures

Insight

Brian Garrett: Venture capital success mostly comes down to luck and timing

“Because at the end of the day, most of this is about luck and timing.”

Brian Garrett Feb 5, 2018 ▶ 16:02 20VC: Why Vulnerability Is A Strength In VC, 3 Core Components That Make The Most Successful VCs & How VCs and Entrepreneurs Can Build Meaningful Relationships Pre-Investment with Brian Garrett, Founding Partner @ Crosscut Ventures

Insight

Brian Garrett: Young VCs speak in board meetings just to feel important

“I have found that the biggest issue I've seen is young VCs believing that they have to speak because they're tasked as a board member, and they're supposed to say important things, and my philosophy is speak when you have something to say, not because you want…”

Brian Garrett Feb 5, 2018 ▶ 17:35 20VC: Why Vulnerability Is A Strength In VC, 3 Core Components That Make The Most Successful VCs & How VCs and Entrepreneurs Can Build Meaningful Relationships Pre-Investment with Brian Garrett, Founding Partner @ Crosscut Ventures

Prediction Held up

Brian Garrett limits his investment cadence to two or three deals annually

“I only try to do two or three deals a year.”

Disclosure

Brian Garrett: LPs doubted Southern California was a real market in 2014

“I think that the most challenging... For us was the first thirty million of Crosscut Three, what we were calling our first close. And it was late in 2014 and not so clear that Southern California was a quote, real market to LPs yet.”

Brian Garrett Feb 5, 2018 ▶ 21:07 20VC: Why Vulnerability Is A Strength In VC, 3 Core Components That Make The Most Successful VCs & How VCs and Entrepreneurs Can Build Meaningful Relationships Pre-Investment with Brian Garrett, Founding Partner @ Crosscut Ventures

Appearances (1)