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Eric Ver Ploeg

Founding Partner, Tunitas Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Eric Ver Ploeg is an investor and Founding Partner at Tunitas Ventures, previously serving as a Managing Director at VantagePoint Venture Partners and DTCP. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded Adknowledge and Kleiner Perkins-backed Angara, and his venture investments include Fastly and Anomali.

14statements → 2claims → 1claims resolved → 3.79/5average certainty → 2.43/5average debate potential → 4.2/5argument clarity · the sources →

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

2 assertions · 3 opinions · 9 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is 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.

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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.

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Assertion Supported
Ver Ploeg: Microsoft went public at a sub-$1B market cap
“I mean, people like to talk about how when Microsoft went public, it was a sub one billion dollar market cap company.”
Eric Ver Ploeg Sep 9, 2015 ▶ 18:44 20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital

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

4.2 / 5 directness 4.6 · coherence 4.4 · precision 3.8 · compression 3.7

redirected or did not address 1 of 12 assessed questions (8%). 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? →

236 words/min while actually speaking · 38.9 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,064 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 Ver Ploeg said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Ver Ploeg: Over 80% of VC advice to CEOs is useless
“I'm fully aware that the CEO who's been working 60 plus hours a week in a specific sector for several years knows a lot more about that sector than me as a VC board member who, I mean, really can rarely spend more than five hours a week on a specific company a…”
Eric Ver Ploeg Sep 9, 2015 ▶ 6:07 20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital
Opinion
Ver Ploeg: Uber's growth mirrors early Google, justifying its valuation
“You know, I haven't seen their financials, but, you know, I've talked to their investors who have, and, you know, they say things like, you know, it's financials are like the early days of Google, that, you know, it really is growing that Stratospherically, an…”
Eric Ver Ploeg Sep 9, 2015 ▶ 13:05 20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital
Insight
Ver Ploeg: Data disproves that remote tools democratize startup success
“You know, honestly, I had thought, sort of a hypothesis of mine was that there, we would see increased geographic democratization over the last handful of years, given, you know, better communication, lower friction and overhead in, in engaging remote resource…”
Eric Ver Ploeg Sep 9, 2015 ▶ 20:02 20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital
Insight
Ver Ploeg: A startup board is not the CEO's boss
“Your board is not your boss, right? It's an, and by the same token, you know, becoming CEO of a young company is not sort of about unfettered open field running either. A board is an amalgamation of people who have a collective interest and have their own sepa…”
Eric Ver Ploeg Sep 9, 2015 ▶ 8:32 20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital
Insight
Ver Ploeg: Board members should prioritize rational outcomes over emotional support
“By and large, I don't think that's the normal operating role of being sort of the support. I think the, in terms of an efficient business interaction, the role of the board member is a very you know, To be very rational and to be very specific about trying to …”
Eric Ver Ploeg Sep 9, 2015 ▶ 9:43 20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital
Insight
Ver Ploeg: Silicon Valley angels offer better tech experience than non-tech angels
“I think, you know, you just have a larger fraction of people with money, In the Valley have money from being involved in entrepreneurial ventures. So they have relative experience. Whereas, you know, I grew up in Ohio, like the people who had money there, you …”
Eric Ver Ploeg Sep 9, 2015 ▶ 23:01 20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital
Opinion
Ver Ploeg: Meal delivery startups lack defensibility and will compete to death
“I just don't understand all of these, you know, sort of food meal delivery businesses. They've raised a ton of money and I look at them and I just don't understand where the defensibility comes from their business models and how they're not just going to, you …”
Eric Ver Ploeg Sep 9, 2015 ▶ 24:48 20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital
Insight
Ver Ploeg: Corporate training fails to prepare founders for board management
“There's nothing in the training of somebody who's, you know, been in corporate America, or, you In, but anywhere in the world, that trains you for dealing with a board of, you know, smart, opinionated people who have some control over your life, but aren't spe…”
Eric Ver Ploeg Sep 9, 2015 ▶ 7:48 20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ver Ploeg: 5% of early-stage investments generate 95% of venture returns
“And that's the nature of early stage venture is that five percent of those investments generate 95% of their turns.”
Eric Ver Ploeg Sep 9, 2015 ▶ 12:28 20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital
Insight
Ver Ploeg: Founders should lower valuations rather than accept full ratchets
“And if you're, you know, you need to agree to a full ratchet to get the valuation that you were looking for then I think either A, you should relax your valuation expectations and, you know get better anti-dilution terms, or not raise that round.”
Eric Ver Ploeg Sep 9, 2015 ▶ 15:02 20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital
Insight
Ver Ploeg: Rockstar companies should raise heavily in frothy markets
“In a frothy environment like we have now, or at least we had until last week then, you know, there's a lot of cash available. And if you're a rockstar company, you should take it.”
Eric Ver Ploeg Sep 9, 2015 ▶ 16:44 20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital
Opinion
Ver Ploeg: Being in the Bay Area provides irreplaceable VC deal flow
“There are two answers to that. The short and simple one is yes, in a way that you just couldn't get any other place. Because, you know, if I go to my local coffee shop, which I do every morning, I see venture guys in there, right?”
Eric Ver Ploeg Sep 9, 2015 ▶ 21:26 20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital
Insight
Ver Ploeg: Mid-stage startups should target 18 months of burn runway
“In the mid-stage, after you've gotten something proven that you're not cash flow positive by any measure, you know, the standard rule of thumb is something like 18 months worth of burn, right?”
Eric Ver Ploeg Sep 9, 2015 ▶ 16:03 20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital
Assertion Supported
Ver Ploeg: Microsoft went public at a sub-$1B market cap
“I mean, people like to talk about how when Microsoft went public, it was a sub one billion dollar market cap company.”
Eric Ver Ploeg Sep 9, 2015 ▶ 18:44 20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg Sep 9, 2015 21m
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