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Jake Flomenberg

Partner, Wing Venture Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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At Wing Venture Capital, he focuses on early-stage enterprise investments in AI infrastructure, foundation models, cybersecurity, and physical AI. Prior to Wing, he was a partner at Accel and held product leadership positions at Splunk and Cloudera.

12statements → 2claims → 0claims resolved → 3.5/5average certainty → 2.75/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 1said about them ↓

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2 predictions · 1 opinion · 9 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 2 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 Jake argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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227 words/min while actually speaking · 3.1 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Jake Flomenberg: no 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. Their coarse estimate from 18 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.5/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.

Measured by listening to 3,499 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Jake Flomenberg is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. 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 55%

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

Insight
Flomenberg: AI startups cannot build durable differentiation solely through algorithms
“A lot of the companies that I meet, they come up to me and they picked a spot that's very close to that algorithm dot on the top, and my concern with that is it's very hard to imagine an algorithm that's durably differentiable.”
Jake Flomenberg Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 6:23 20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
Insight
Flomenberg: AI startups must build workflow software before building models
“It comes back to this notion of workflow first, data capture, followed by model building and iterations.”
Jake Flomenberg Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 8:55 20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Flomenberg: Prime vertical SaaS opportunities require zero initial data
“That's really where I think the bulk of the opportunity is going to be going forward, particularly in areas like vertical SaaS, where I can improve the current experience without any data, and any data that I can collect to improve your life is just gravy on t…”
Jake Flomenberg Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 11:12 20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
Insight
Flomenberg: Data feedback loops provide stronger moats than initial dataset size
“That's where I think a lot of this feedback loop and sort of supervised learning around the data is Actually becomes a little bit more of an advantage than the original data set itself.”
Jake Flomenberg Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 12:39 20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
Insight
Flomenberg: Synthetic data gets self-driving cars 99.9% there but misses edge cases
“In the instance of self-driving cars, It could make a lot of sense, and I think it can get you 99.9% of the way there, but the question is, how fully reflective is the underlying data set of the real world, and in the instance where it's not 100% fully reflect…”
Jake Flomenberg Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 14:36 20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
Insight
Flomenberg: Google will compete with ad-data startups but unlikely cybersecurity ones
“If you want to use some Google-like or Google-specific dataset for an advertising product, it's a really uncomfortable situation because at any point in time, Google may very well decide to build that same product. Now, for instance, in security, could Google …”
Jake Flomenberg Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 15:41 20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
Insight
Flomenberg: Independent public companies require at least a $1B TAM
“If there's not a billion dollar TAM for this thing, it's not possibly the basis for a product that could support an independent publicly traded company.”
Jake Flomenberg Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 16:48 20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
Opinion
Flomenberg: Standalone ML anomaly detection in cybersecurity is overhyped
“Getting back to our conversation around AI and ML, one area that I think is unfortunately slightly overplayed is this machine learning anomaly detection to rule them all off by itself.”
Jake Flomenberg Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 18:34 20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
Insight
Flomenberg: Advising startups to raise whatever market allows drives risky overspending
“Raise what the market will bear. A lot of startups dig themselves into a lot of trouble by raising, and more importantly, behaving like They don't have to worry about the next round, and overspending can put you in very tricky situations.”
Jake Flomenberg Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 21:53 20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
Insight
Flomenberg: Large organizations suffer from inherent inefficiencies of scale
“There's an inherent inefficiency of scale at any company, and it's no disrespect to Lockheed Martin. Once an organization reaches a certain size, the amount of overhead and planning makes it very, very hard to move nimbly, and quite frankly, the incumbent natu…”
Jake Flomenberg Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 4:45 20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
Insight
Flomenberg: Startups must instill self-disruption values while young
“If we need to go back to the drawing board, if we need to give up this line of revenue stream for something that's going to be more exciting in the future, I think that gets harder and harder for you to do as the company grows. You really need to instill that …”
Jake Flomenberg Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 5:21 20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Flomenberg: Enterprise focus on cybersecurity is permanent due to nation-state threats
“Look, I think the focus and emphasis on security is here to stay. What we've witnessed over the past years, particularly from nation state actors, is reasonably new. And nation state actors, unlike your average hacker or scammer, they're not going after the lo…”
Jake Flomenberg Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 17:41 20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel

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Appearances (1)

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20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Dec 6, 2017 16m
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