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Clark Valberg

Managing Partner, Tiferes Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Clark Valberg co-founded and served as CEO of InVision, a digital product design platform. Today, he leads early-stage venture firm Tiferes Ventures.

12statements → 2claims → 2claims resolved → 3.83/5average certainty → 2.17/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated → 2said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted how the 2 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 1 assertion · 8 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertion are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 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

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.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Multiple decabillion-dollar tech giants once lost $100 million in a single quarter
“There are many businesses that are worth Many decabillions that at some point lost a hundred million dollars in a quarter.”
Clark Valberg Aug 30, 2019 ▶ 9:23 20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up
Clark Valberg predicts digital product design will produce a public operating system
“I think that there'll be a public company that lives in the space of the operating system of digital product design. I see I have line of sight to the idea that it could be envisioned, but the humility to understand there's a lot of hard work to do between her…”
Clark Valberg Aug 30, 2019 ▶ 30:30 20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
0% certainty 3
100% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

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? →

277 words/min while actually speaking · 1.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Clark Valberg: 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 23 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.0/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.

Measured by listening to 5,303 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Clark Valberg 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 ▾ 4/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 4/10
setup questions received 60%

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

Insight
Funding emerging macro trends generates better returns than forcing market change
“You're putting money to try to change a market, to change the world. Then I think that's going to ultimately be calories that are difficult to create a return on. If you are harvesting a change that's emerging and you know that that emerging change is somethin…”
Clark Valberg Aug 30, 2019 ▶ 9:39 20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
Insight
Clark Valberg says remote companies should use in-person gatherings strictly for bonding
“We don't use in-person time to get work done. We use in-person time to get rallied around the vision and to connect as people, as humans, as a culture personally, and not for work, right?”
Clark Valberg Aug 30, 2019 ▶ 26:30 20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
Insight
Information flow requires explicit systems, not just physical office proximity
“If you don't have deliberate systems to ensure that people are aligned to make sure that information is flowing to the right people at the right time and early and often, if you don't have deliberate systems that make that happen, it will not happen, especiall…”
Clark Valberg Aug 30, 2019 ▶ 27:30 20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Clark Valberg predicts digital product design will produce a public operating system
“I think that there'll be a public company that lives in the space of the operating system of digital product design. I see I have line of sight to the idea that it could be envisioned, but the humility to understand there's a lot of hard work to do between her…”
Clark Valberg Aug 30, 2019 ▶ 30:30 20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
Insight
The shift to in-house design teams powered InVision's early growth
“The big change in the world, and I think that the tide that kind of lifted our ship was this transition from the intellectual and design and creative energy around digital product happening outside organizations to it starting to emerge and grow and develop in…”
Clark Valberg Aug 30, 2019 ▶ 6:11 20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
Insight
Founders chasing established market waves will never achieve true market leadership
“If you go chasing a wave that already exists, that's already up there and cresting and moving a lot of water around, you'll never be able to get to the top.”
Clark Valberg Aug 30, 2019 ▶ 8:29 20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
Assertion Supported
Multiple decabillion-dollar tech giants once lost $100 million in a single quarter
“There are many businesses that are worth Many decabillions that at some point lost a hundred million dollars in a quarter.”
Clark Valberg Aug 30, 2019 ▶ 9:23 20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
Insight
Most organizational problems stem from just three core personal character flaws
“Most of the problems you have in your life are traced back to about three different character flaws that you have that are just being expressed in many different ways.”
Clark Valberg Aug 30, 2019 ▶ 14:09 20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
Insight
Leadership requires finding your personal voice just like a writer
“Leadership is like writing. Every writer has to find their voice. You have to find your style that comes from you innately, that you're comfortable with, that removes the self-consciousness of your ability to express yourself creatively and fluidly.”
Clark Valberg Aug 30, 2019 ▶ 16:00 20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
Insight
Work-life balance requires alternating between integration and strict separation modes
“So I think about, I think that it has to be very binary. There's two different modes. You have work-life integration, and you have work-life, let's call them separations. So I try to exercise both of them, because I think one or the other isn't enough.”
Clark Valberg Aug 30, 2019 ▶ 21:58 20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
Disclosure
InVision began as an internal agency tool without commercial intent
“I ran an agency here in New York building digital products for other people, additional kind of digital agency, you know, early in the digital agency world, probably, but the problem we were looking to solve was the problem that we had in the company with no i…”
Clark Valberg Aug 30, 2019 ▶ 4:03 20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship
Disclosure
Clark Valberg keeps an 'Unformed Gut Feelings' section on his to-do list
“I have a section at the top of my to-do list called Unformed Gut Feelings. And I give myself permission to put things there that are not crystallized yet. They're not distilled. They're not synthesized. Maybe they're not even validated. They're just completely…”
Clark Valberg Aug 30, 2019 ▶ 17:10 20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Truly Self-Aware & The Fundamental False Premise of Entrepreneurship

The other half of the tape: Clark Valberg'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 →

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Every mention by year

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20VC: InVision Founder Clark Valberg on Why True Leadership is Like Writing, How To Be Tru Aug 30, 2019 21m
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