Doug Scott

Angel Investor, AngelList · 1 appearance on the record.

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Doug Scott is an angel investor with an AngelList syndicate and early investments in Techstars, Ignite.io, and Entrepreneur First in Europe. He previously founded several UK-based internet companies, including carrentals.co.uk and discountvouchers.co.uk.

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4 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 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 Doug 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
CashKaro is India's largest cashback site despite non-technical founders
“So, Kashkaroo is now the biggest cashback site in India, and I would, Swati and Rohan can't write any code.”
Doug Scott Jun 11, 2015 ▶ 6:47 20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott

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How they sound: speaking style how? →

254 words/min while actually speaking · 8.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Doug Scott: only 2 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.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,601 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 →

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

Disclosure
Scott required Gleepost founders to drop out of university for funding
“If you look at Glee post, you know, I told the founders I would only invest if they quit university.”
Doug Scott Jun 11, 2015 ▶ 10:12 20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
Disclosure
Scott killed offshore development teams to increase startup speed
“We've also, internally, we had a big team in the Ukraine and Poland, and we've almost killed most of our external dev, mainly because the speed of development.”
Doug Scott Jun 11, 2015 ▶ 5:54 20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
Assertion Supported
CashKaro is India's largest cashback site despite non-technical founders
“So, Kashkaroo is now the biggest cashback site in India, and I would, Swati and Rohan can't write any code.”
Doug Scott Jun 11, 2015 ▶ 6:47 20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
Opinion
VCs should not run operations because they are financiers, not operators
“I prefer that they didn't be involved in how the operations of a company run is because most of them are financiers and not operators.”
Doug Scott Jun 11, 2015 ▶ 22:52 20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
Insight
Scott seeks obsessive founders who have a chip on their shoulder
“I look for people who are obsessive, and they have, I suppose, a chip on their shoulder, actually. They have a reason to prove.”
Doug Scott Jun 11, 2015 ▶ 9:21 20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
Disclosure
Scott avoids startups raising £1M at £5M-£10M valuations
“I get approached a lot of times by people who want to raise it, you know, maybe you want to raise a million pound at a five, ten million valuation, and we don't sit anywhere in that space.”
Doug Scott Jun 11, 2015 ▶ 12:00 20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
Assertion Supported
Scott, Tim Jackson, and Gil Dibner lead Europe's top AngelList syndicates
“Yes, I think between, well, Myself, Tim Jackson, I would say Gil Dibner are probably the three.”
Doug Scott Jun 11, 2015 ▶ 12:34 20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
Insight
Startup capital is never truly committed until cash arrives
“Every one of the startups I've invested in, I said, you have to control the deal. You think the money's committed, but it's not. When it's, when they've given you the used notes and it's in your hand, it's the only time count on it being there.”
Doug Scott Jun 11, 2015 ▶ 20:02 20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Scott's firm launched 40 internal products in one year
“We launched 40 businesses last year, internally. 40 products. And we probably have, we have two that are very, very interesting.”
Doug Scott Jun 11, 2015 ▶ 8:03 20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
Assertion Supported
UK SEIS first-year investment exceeded £82 million
“I know the first year, it was over eighty-two million just in SCIS investments.”
Doug Scott Jun 11, 2015 ▶ 20:39 20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott

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Statements about Doug Scott, by other people (1)

Assertion Supported
Scott's AngelList syndicate reaches over £350,000 in backing
“Doug has one of the largest angel-less syndicates in Europe, With over 350,000 pounds backing him now.”
Harry Stebbings Jun 11, 2015 ▶ 0:22 20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott Jun 11, 2015 18m
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