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Greg Rogers

Senior Advisor, Techstars · 1 appearance on the record.

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Greg Rogers is the co-founder and CEO of Pictela, which was acquired by AOL in 2010. He subsequently served as Managing Director and Senior Advisor at Techstars, overseeing accelerator operations and investing in early-stage startups.

10statements → 2claims → 2claims resolved → 4/5average certainty → 2.1/5average debate potential → 4.3/5argument clarity · the sources →

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted how the 2 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 assertions · 2 opinions · 5 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved. 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 Greg 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
AOL Time Warner acquired Takoda for $275 million in 2007
“Around 2007, the CEO decided that he wanted to sell the company. He got a very good offer from AOL Time Warner for around two hundred and seventy five million.”
Greg Rogers Apr 13, 2015 ▶ 2:55 20 VC 027: Greg Rogers on Techstars, Mentors and The Potential for Fintech

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Rogers: 80% of the global population lacks financial service access
“Something like, 80% of the world doesn't have a bank account, doesn't have access to financial services.”
Greg Rogers Apr 13, 2015 ▶ 15:34 20 VC 027: Greg Rogers on Techstars, Mentors and The Potential for Fintech

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
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0% certainty 3
100% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

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

4.3 / 5 directness 4.4 · coherence 4.7 · precision 4 · compression 3.7

redirected or did not address 2 of 12 assessed questions (17%). 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 · 36 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,246 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 Greg Rogers said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Greg Rogers: London is becoming a global leader in fintech disruption
“No. No, because I would say London is, is certainly becoming a center of FinTech. I don't like to use the word Silicon Valley. That's a very unique ecosystem and geography and community. But I would certainly say that London is, you know, I, it's funny, I hear…”
Greg Rogers Apr 13, 2015 ▶ 13:05 20 VC 027: Greg Rogers on Techstars, Mentors and The Potential for Fintech
Insight
Greg Rogers: Fintech founders should partner with big banks for distribution
“I would say don't be afraid to collaborate. There are a lot of fintech entrepreneurs who are, you know, they're staying away from the traditional banks because they feel like they're trying to disrupt them. But my one recommendation would be, you know, big ban…”
Greg Rogers Apr 13, 2015 ▶ 25:14 20 VC 027: Greg Rogers on Techstars, Mentors and The Potential for Fintech
Insight
Startups must bring software development in-house for adequate control
“But eventually what winds up happening is you eventually want to bring things in house. You want to be able to control development a little bit better.”
Greg Rogers Apr 13, 2015 ▶ 6:09 20 VC 027: Greg Rogers on Techstars, Mentors and The Potential for Fintech
Insight
Founders evaluating acquisition offers must weigh future dilution against higher exit targets
“You look at the cap table when somebody comes to you and you say, okay, well, we're going to have to do another raise. And if we do another raise, we're going to dilute by this much roughly, right? And if we do dilute by this much roughly, how much do we then …”
Greg Rogers Apr 13, 2015 ▶ 8:05 20 VC 027: Greg Rogers on Techstars, Mentors and The Potential for Fintech
Insight
Techstars prioritizes former founders over industry experts for Managing Director roles
“But first and foremost, Techstars looks for entrepreneurs for their MDs. He said, you know, you can find industry experts all you want, but what's actually really hard to find are people who have, you know, gone through the VC races, been rejected multiple tim…”
Greg Rogers Apr 13, 2015 ▶ 10:30 20 VC 027: Greg Rogers on Techstars, Mentors and The Potential for Fintech
Opinion
Greg Rogers: Fintech is a blue ocean opportunity like 2000s adtech
“The opportunity for fintech today is the same opportunity I saw in ad tech 15 years ago. It's just a blue ocean.”
Greg Rogers Apr 13, 2015 ▶ 14:13 20 VC 027: Greg Rogers on Techstars, Mentors and The Potential for Fintech
Assertion Contradicted
Rogers: 80% of the global population lacks financial service access
“Something like, 80% of the world doesn't have a bank account, doesn't have access to financial services.”
Greg Rogers Apr 13, 2015 ▶ 15:34 20 VC 027: Greg Rogers on Techstars, Mentors and The Potential for Fintech
Disclosure
Rogers: Techstars mentors donate their time without receiving equity
“It's a charitable donation of time.”
Greg Rogers Apr 13, 2015 ▶ 18:03 20 VC 027: Greg Rogers on Techstars, Mentors and The Potential for Fintech
Insight
Greg Rogers: Effective startup mentors possess intellectual curiosity and honesty
“The best mentors are the ones that are intellectually curious, so you can get a sense pretty quickly by talking to somebody whether or not they love to work on puzzles. So are these the people who can sit down with you and just very quickly, and they, you can …”
Greg Rogers Apr 13, 2015 ▶ 19:06 20 VC 027: Greg Rogers on Techstars, Mentors and The Potential for Fintech
Assertion Supported
AOL Time Warner acquired Takoda for $275 million in 2007
“Around 2007, the CEO decided that he wanted to sell the company. He got a very good offer from AOL Time Warner for around two hundred and seventy five million.”
Greg Rogers Apr 13, 2015 ▶ 2:55 20 VC 027: Greg Rogers on Techstars, Mentors and The Potential for Fintech

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC 027: Greg Rogers on Techstars, Mentors and The Potential for Fintech Apr 13, 2015 23m
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