Chris Morton
Entrepreneur-in-Residence, University of Oxford · 1 appearance on the record.
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Chris Morton co-founded the global fashion search platform Lyst in 2010 and served as CEO until 2022. Before founding Lyst, he was an early-stage consumer internet investor at Balderton Capital and Benchmark.
4 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
2 predictions · 3 assertions · 2 opinions · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.
The record, in short
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redirected or did not address 1 of 20 assessed questions (5%). Watch them ▸
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How they sound: speaking style how? →
298 words/min while actually speaking · 14.2 um and uh per 1k words
Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,720 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 →
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Across 1 rated episode:
Everything Chris Morton 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: Chris Morton's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 2 times in 2 episodes on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 1Christian Hernandez 1
Every mention by year
2016 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Accel's Brian O'Malley On The Prioritisation Of Growth, The Metrics That Show True Customer Retention & Why The Most Interesting Companies Create A Market
- 20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| 20VC: Why VC Is The Perfect Preparation For Founding A Startup & Changing The World Of Onl | May 6, 2016 | 18m |