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Clinton Foy

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

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Clinton Foy is a venture investor and executive who served as General Partner at Crosscut Ventures and co-founded Immortals Gaming Club. He previously acted as COO, General Counsel, and Head of Business Development at Square Enix, overseeing licensing for major gaming franchises.

12statements → 9claims → 3claims resolved → 33%fully supported → 3.75/5average certainty → 2.5/5average debate potential → 4.5/5argument clarity · the sources → 1said about them ↓

1 supported 2 partly supported 0 contradicted 6 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 predictions · 5 assertions · 2 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 6 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 Clinton 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
Esports viewership and engagement are growing 20% to 30% per year
“But you're seeing things like eSports increasing 20 to 30% per year in viewership and engagement, and you have this amazing demographic of 14 to 24 to 34 year olds who are just starting to change viewing habits in a pretty fundamental way.”
Clinton Foy Nov 2, 2016 ▶ 18:49 20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures

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

4.5 / 5 directness 4.9 · coherence 4.8 · precision 4.2 · compression 3.7

answered every one of 17 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? →

220 words/min while actually speaking · 10.2 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,539 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 ▾ 2/10
setup questions received 65%

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

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Y Combinator is disrupting venture capital by flipping founder supply and demand
“I think it will. We're starting to see that happen with Y Combinator. There was a great article I just read Profiling Sam Altman in the New Yorker, and I respect what Y Combinator has done, and I'm a big fan of what they've done over the last three to four yea…”
Clinton Foy Nov 2, 2016 ▶ 10:34 20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Esports team franchises could reach billion-dollar valuations over time
“I think the prize pool isn't in and of itself a billion dollar outcome, but I think owning and operating and growing an esports team and a franchise and a platform could potentially be a multi-hundred million dollar or even a potential billion dollar outcome o…”
Clinton Foy Nov 2, 2016 ▶ 15:54 20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Esports will supplant some traditional sports, though basketball and soccer will survive
“And I think that that demographic is going to supplant some traditional sports. And I think some are going to survive. I think, for instance, basketball and soccer are two very healthy international sports that are going to do very well.”
Clinton Foy Nov 2, 2016 ▶ 19:25 20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
Disclosure
VCs blocked Clinton Foy from investing in Oculus's angel round
“I tried to get in on the angel round of investment in Oculus right after their Kickstarter. I thought, well, I'm the COO of Square Enix, this two billion dollar company. Surely I can get in. And I talked to the lawyers and talked to some of the people doing th…”
Clinton Foy Nov 2, 2016 ▶ 3:58 20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
Insight
Aggressive, short-term VCs eventually get forced out of the ecosystem
“I don't I think it's a market of bullish predators because I think those bullish predators get forced out of the system. I think you can be a short-term predator, but to be a good VC, I think you have to be an excellent long-term actor.”
Clinton Foy Nov 2, 2016 ▶ 7:52 20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
Insight
VC remains inefficient, letting investors win deals on relationships over price
“I see VC as being one of those last industries, one of those last categories that's inefficient still. And what I mean by that is it's not like the public markets where the highest bidder is always going to win. I think VCs through relationships, through vario…”
Clinton Foy Nov 2, 2016 ▶ 9:26 20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
Assertion Partly supported
League of Legends finals drew 36 million viewers, topping the NBA Finals
“Thirty-six million people watch the League of Legends finals this last year. That's bigger than the NBA finals.”
Clinton Foy Nov 2, 2016 ▶ 17:23 20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
Assertion Partly supported
The average MLB fan is 54, with viewership dropping 3-4% annually
“If you look at, for instance, baseball. Baseball, the average fan of baseball is about 54 years old and male, and aging every year. The average demographic increases every year, and that, that, that fan next year will be 55, and it's decreasing on a viewership…”
Clinton Foy Nov 2, 2016 ▶ 18:32 20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Major game publishers did not foresee the rapid rise of esports
“I don't think that Riot Games and Valve are And Activision Blizzard were really conscious that esports was something that was growing so big over the last five to 10 years.”
Clinton Foy Nov 2, 2016 ▶ 22:29 20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
Assertion Supported
Esports viewership and engagement are growing 20% to 30% per year
“But you're seeing things like eSports increasing 20 to 30% per year in viewership and engagement, and you have this amazing demographic of 14 to 24 to 34 year olds who are just starting to change viewing habits in a pretty fundamental way.”
Clinton Foy Nov 2, 2016 ▶ 18:49 20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
Prediction Not checkable as stated
The intersection of VR and esports is three to four years away
“I just think that the intersection of VR and e-sports is still maybe say three to four years off.”
Clinton Foy Nov 2, 2016 ▶ 20:47 20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Crosscut Ventures evaluates 3,000 deals annually to invest in 10 to 12
“We saw over 3000 deals this last year, and of those 3000, we met with 400 of them face to face, brought them into our office, and you know, we only ended up investing in about 10 to 12 of them.”
Clinton Foy Nov 2, 2016 ▶ 6:11 20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures

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Appearances (1)

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20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports T Nov 2, 2016 17m
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