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Eric Hippeau

Managing Partner, Lerer Hippeau Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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He is a Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures and co-founder of NowThis Media. Previously, he served as the CEO of The Huffington Post and Chairman and CEO of Ziff-Davis.

12statements → 5claims → 1claims resolved → 4.17/5average certainty → 1.83/5average debate potential → 4.4/5argument clarity · the sources → 6said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 3 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 3 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 3 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 Eric 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
SoftBank Owned a Third of Yahoo at Its IPO
“SoftBank then ended up owning, as you'll recall a third of Yahoo at the IPO.”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 3:27 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures

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

4.4 / 5 directness 4.6 · coherence 4.7 · precision 4.2 · compression 3.7

redirected or did not address 2 of 18 assessed questions (11%). Watch them ▸

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? →

232 words/min while actually speaking · 81.3 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,617 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 ▾ 1/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 2/10
setup questions received 75%

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

Opinion
Eric Hippeau: Yahoo must sell itself to better management
“No, Yahoo is not game over, and Yahoo needs, needs probably needs to sell itself to people who can manage it better and Yahoo has an enormous amount of assets namely, it's taken Alibaba, it's taken Yahoo Japan, and its own its own own and operated website whic…”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 23:16 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2020
Eric Hippeau predicts drone racing will become as popular as video games
“We believe that drones are going to have the same popularity that video games and that, that people are going to want to raise them, people are going to develop themselves as professional or semi-professional pilots that it's a very visual because these drones…”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 25:40 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Insight
Hippeau: Seed-stage execution follows well-known steps with little mystery
“What they have to do are well-known steps. There's no, there's not a lot of mystery in what needs to be done.”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 14:06 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Insight
Hippeau: Early venture timing loses money, late timing yields me-too companies
“Because if you invest too early it's not gonna, the market's not gonna develop, and you, you'll lose all your money, and if you invest too late, you're gonna be investing in some sort of a me-too company.”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 18:05 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Insight
Hippeau: Successful pitches focus on core concepts, not data overload
“So the very best pitches to me are pitches that are relatively simple, you know, go right to the point. Don't try to shower you with too much data. You can always put the data in the appendix because ultimately it's not going to be about the data. Ultimately i…”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 19:01 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hippeau: Digital scale gives long-form journalism a larger audience than print
“Today because of the sheer size of the audience being, you know, multiply, Bigger than it was in the past. You will, if you want to do long-form journalism, as such as we do on BuzzFeed, and we did some at the African Post as well, you, by default, you're goin…”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 20:09 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Eric Hippeau: Long-form journalism will never be the most popular media format
“It's never going to be the most popular form of journalism, because it was never the most popular form of journalism.”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 20:36 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hippeau: BuzzFeed's proprietary technology drives its content virality and popularity
“He has benefited from the fact that he's built an enormous amount of technology that allows him to then develop the kind of content that becomes the most popular.”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 22:22 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Assertion Supported
SoftBank Owned a Third of Yahoo at Its IPO
“SoftBank then ended up owning, as you'll recall a third of Yahoo at the IPO.”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 3:27 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Disclosure
Lerer Hippeau's first fund was $8.5 million
“Our first fund was very, very small. It was eight and a half million dollars.”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 9:03 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Disclosure
Hippeau: About 70% of Lerer Hippeau's investments are in New York
“So about 70% of our companies are in in New York itself.”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 10:46 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Disclosure
Lerer Hippeau employs a full-time engineer for its founder tech platform
“We have a product, we have a technology platform, and one of our team members is a full-time engineer.”
Eric Hippeau Dec 21, 2015 ▶ 12:05 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures

The other half of the tape: Eric Hippeau's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 6 times in 4 episodes on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 3Ben Lerer 2Mike Lazerow 1

Every mention by year

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Dec 21, 2015 19m
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