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Erin Glenn

Co-Founder & COO, alfa8 · 1 appearance on the record.

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executiveoperatorinvestor@leeeringlenn ↗alfa8.co ↗

Erin Glenn is a finance executive and co-founder of alfa8, an investment firm focused on sustainable technologies and deep geothermal energy. She previously served as CEO of equity crowdfunding platform Quire and CFO of video game developer KIXEYE.

7statements → 6claims → 4claims resolved → 50%fully supported → 3.71/5average certainty → 2.14/5average debate potential → 4.5/5argument clarity · the sources →

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

1 prediction · 5 assertions · 1 opinion · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, 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 Erin 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
Glenn: Only 2% of VC decision makers are Latino or Black
“You know, only two points of decision makers at VC firms are Latino or African American.”
Erin Glenn Dec 4, 2015 ▶ 9:01 20 VC FF 025: Crowdfunding Gimlet Media and Why The Nature Of Startup Equity Is Changing with Erin Glenn, CEO @ Betaworks' backed, Quire

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Glenn: Women represented 22% of Quire and Mattermark survey respondents
“And even with that high percentage, women still only made up 22% of our respondents.”
Erin Glenn Dec 4, 2015 ▶ 8:48 20 VC FF 025: Crowdfunding Gimlet Media and Why The Nature Of Startup Equity Is Changing with Erin Glenn, CEO @ Betaworks' backed, Quire

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

4.5 / 5 directness 5 · coherence 5 · precision 4.3 · compression 4.2

answered every one of 10 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? →

199 words/min while actually speaking · 12.2 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,628 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 ▾ 3/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 1/10
setup questions received 75%

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

Assertion Supported
Glenn: Only 2% of VC decision makers are Latino or Black
“You know, only two points of decision makers at VC firms are Latino or African American.”
Erin Glenn Dec 4, 2015 ▶ 9:01 20 VC FF 025: Crowdfunding Gimlet Media and Why The Nature Of Startup Equity Is Changing with Erin Glenn, CEO @ Betaworks' backed, Quire
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Glenn: Equity crowdfunding will complement venture capital, not displace it
“I think it's going to be a sympathetic relationship. You know, there are instances when companies need 50, a 102 hundred, fifty million dollars to grow in scale, and the crowd is never going to provide that capital, and I think VCs provide important seats at t…”
Erin Glenn Dec 4, 2015 ▶ 12:32 20 VC FF 025: Crowdfunding Gimlet Media and Why The Nature Of Startup Equity Is Changing with Erin Glenn, CEO @ Betaworks' backed, Quire
Assertion Contradicted
Glenn: Women represented 22% of Quire and Mattermark survey respondents
“And even with that high percentage, women still only made up 22% of our respondents.”
Erin Glenn Dec 4, 2015 ▶ 8:48 20 VC FF 025: Crowdfunding Gimlet Media and Why The Nature Of Startup Equity Is Changing with Erin Glenn, CEO @ Betaworks' backed, Quire
Opinion
Glenn: Title III equity crowdfunding is transformative for US small businesses
“Like, we think Title III is transformative not just for tech startups, but also for the broader small and medium-sized businesses, you know, across the United States.”
Erin Glenn Dec 4, 2015 ▶ 10:49 20 VC FF 025: Crowdfunding Gimlet Media and Why The Nature Of Startup Equity Is Changing with Erin Glenn, CEO @ Betaworks' backed, Quire
Assertion Supported
Glenn: Bain study shows customer-owners spend more and have higher loyalty
“There was a study done a while back by Bain that shows customers who are owners of the business spend more, they refer more, they talk about the business more, and they're more loyal.”
Erin Glenn Dec 4, 2015 ▶ 15:58 20 VC FF 025: Crowdfunding Gimlet Media and Why The Nature Of Startup Equity Is Changing with Erin Glenn, CEO @ Betaworks' backed, Quire
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Glenn: New York has significantly more female founders than San Francisco
“And then there's, there are many more female founders in New York.”
Erin Glenn Dec 4, 2015 ▶ 21:35 20 VC FF 025: Crowdfunding Gimlet Media and Why The Nature Of Startup Equity Is Changing with Erin Glenn, CEO @ Betaworks' backed, Quire
Assertion Contradicted
Glenn: Only 3% of US households qualify as accredited investors
“Despite the accreditation limits and the fact that only three percent of American households can invest, it is an approachable amount that makes it easy to support founders and then will support larger investments.”
Erin Glenn Dec 4, 2015 ▶ 5:01 20 VC FF 025: Crowdfunding Gimlet Media and Why The Nature Of Startup Equity Is Changing with Erin Glenn, CEO @ Betaworks' backed, Quire

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC FF 025: Crowdfunding Gimlet Media and Why The Nature Of Startup Equity Is Changing w Dec 4, 2015 15m
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