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Clark Landry

General Partner, Hawke Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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investorfounderexecutive@clandry ↗LinkedIn ↗hawkeventures.com ↗

Clark Landry is an early-stage venture investor and multi-time entrepreneur specializing in adtech, martech, digital media, and e-commerce enablement. He co-founded companies including SHIFT, Inspectiv, and Maple Media, and has backed over 100 startups as an angel and early investor, including The Trade Desk, Scopely, and AngelList.

8statements → 1claims → 0claims resolved → 3.75/5average certainty → 2.12/5average debate potential → 4.2/5argument clarity · the sources → 16said about them ↓

1 not checkable as stated how the 1 claim stands · each chip opens the sources

1 assertion · 2 opinions · 4 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 1 names 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 Clark argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

4.2 / 5 directness 5 · coherence 4.2 · precision 3.8 · compression 3.2

answered every one of 12 assessed questions directly

This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →

How they sound: speaking style how? →

235 words/min while actually speaking · 57.2 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,547 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 →

How the interview went all their pushback → series average →

Across 1 rated episode:

host pushback ▾ 2/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 3/10
setup questions received 75%

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

Opinion
Experiencing startup failure is not necessary for entrepreneurial success
“I, I'd say having to fail is not necessarily something that, that is a good thing necessarily.”
Clark Landry Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 17:47 20 VC 012: Angel Investing, Accelerators and AdTech with Clark Landry
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Modern ad arbitrage requires Wall Street-style black-box trading systems
“I mean, at this point, you know, if you want to try and do internet arbitrage you know, most of the most successful guys are using, I mean, Borderline Wall Street style, like, black box trading systems. Back then, you could literally go on a commission junctio…”
Clark Landry Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 2:27 20 VC 012: Angel Investing, Accelerators and AdTech with Clark Landry
Insight
Startup exits feel more like relief than pure celebration
“I think before you do a startup, you always envision that there's this moment where, you know, everyone is jumping up and down and celebrating, and at least in my experience, it's been, you know, it's obviously very exciting to be involved in a company that ge…”
Clark Landry Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 7:16 20 VC 012: Angel Investing, Accelerators and AdTech with Clark Landry
Insight
Investors should offer active support to struggling portfolio companies
“Even if you might be upset about, you know, maybe one of the companies you invested in, you know, had a bad quarter, a bad half, or a bad year and, you know, it doesn't make it any less concerning, but, you know, I've found myself just trying to get more in th…”
Clark Landry Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 11:36 20 VC 012: Angel Investing, Accelerators and AdTech with Clark Landry
Insight
Founding team quality matters more than the product for early-stage investments
“That's the most important thing for me is just the founding team over product.”
Clark Landry Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 13:03 20 VC 012: Angel Investing, Accelerators and AdTech with Clark Landry
Disclosure
Clark Landry prefers investing in multi-founder startups over solo founders
“I mean, I much prefer deals where there are multiple founders .”
Clark Landry Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 14:25 20 VC 012: Angel Investing, Accelerators and AdTech with Clark Landry
Opinion
Launchpad, Amplify, and Mucker are the top tech accelerators in Los Angeles
“The Launchpad's great. I like Amplify a lot. Mucker is great. Making sure I don't leave any out from before I get yelled at. I think those three are some of the top ones in town.”
Clark Landry Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 21:49 20 VC 012: Angel Investing, Accelerators and AdTech with Clark Landry
Insight
Founders with empathy for investors make delivering returns their top priority
“So I'd say as an entrepreneur, you have a lot more empathy for your investors, and you really get to the point where you want to You know, do well by them, and that, that becomes a very, very high priority, if not your top priority.”
Clark Landry Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 10:03 20 VC 012: Angel Investing, Accelerators and AdTech with Clark Landry

The other half of the tape: Clark Landry's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 16 times in 5 episodes on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 10James Borow 3Arielle Zuckerberg 3

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC 012: Angel Investing, Accelerators and AdTech with Clark Landry Feb 18, 2015 18m
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