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James Cameron

Investor, Accel · 1 appearance on the record.

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James Cameron is an early-stage investor at Accel focusing on enterprise software, security, fintech, and marketplaces. He previously founded BipSync and worked in tech banking at Morgan Stanley.

13statements → 2claims → 2claims resolved → 4/5average certainty → 1.77/5average debate potential → 4.3/5argument clarity · the sources → 3said about them ↓

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

2 assertions · 3 opinions · 5 insights · 3 disclosures · 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 James 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
Public companies are shifting massive budgets to cybersecurity vendors
“There's not a boardroom at a public company in the country that's not absolutely terrified of the stuff happening to them. And so we're seeing huge amounts of budgets being shifted into cyber security vendors.”
James Cameron Jan 20, 2016 ▶ 10:29 20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Israel has more NASDAQ listings than Europe, China, and Japan combined
“You've got this country that's got, what, like, eight million people, and it's got more NASDAQ-listed companies than all of Europe, plus China, plus Japan combined.”
James Cameron Jan 20, 2016 ▶ 13:25 20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software

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

4.3 / 5 directness 4.4 · coherence 4.7 · precision 4.2 · compression 3.8

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? →

265 words/min while actually speaking · 48.2 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,791 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 1/10
setup questions received 85%

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

Assertion Contradicted
Israel has more NASDAQ listings than Europe, China, and Japan combined
“You've got this country that's got, what, like, eight million people, and it's got more NASDAQ-listed companies than all of Europe, plus China, plus Japan combined.”
James Cameron Jan 20, 2016 ▶ 13:25 20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
Opinion
Accel would back Deliveroo founder Will Shu on virtually any idea
“Will Shue over at Deliveroo. I mean, the guy could get anything off the ground. I think it's just a level of ambition and sheer bloody mindedness that makes you want to back him no matter what company. He could come in with Facebook for dogs and I think we'd p…”
James Cameron Jan 20, 2016 ▶ 25:07 20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
Disclosure
Accel typically knows founders for up to 12 months before investing
“I think overall, we probably know our founders for, you know, upwards of 12 months sometimes before we before we make an investment.”
James Cameron Jan 20, 2016 ▶ 7:21 20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
Insight
Containers represent a generational platform shift in IT infrastructure
“We're firmly convinced this is one of those rare sort of developments in IT infrastructure. There's sort of a generational shift which has huge repercussions. I mean, this is similar to what we saw when sort of mainframes went to client server or the advent of…”
James Cameron Jan 20, 2016 ▶ 9:35 20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
Assertion Supported
Public companies are shifting massive budgets to cybersecurity vendors
“There's not a boardroom at a public company in the country that's not absolutely terrified of the stuff happening to them. And so we're seeing huge amounts of budgets being shifted into cyber security vendors.”
James Cameron Jan 20, 2016 ▶ 10:29 20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
Opinion
Big data and analytics is technology's most overused buzzword
“I think you ask a lot of people, and they'll tell you sort of that big data and analytics is the most overused buzzword in technology.”
James Cameron Jan 20, 2016 ▶ 11:58 20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
Opinion
Vertical-specific analytics applications are significantly under-hyped
“I think what's an under-hyped area in the same general ballpark is sort of these vertical specific applications of analytics.”
James Cameron Jan 20, 2016 ▶ 12:18 20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
Insight
Enterprise software startups must win the US to become global leaders
“Ultimately, if you're building an enterprise software business today, you know, you want to become a global leader, it means becoming a leader in the US.”
James Cameron Jan 20, 2016 ▶ 15:16 20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
Insight
Venture capital naturally flows across borders to back great founders
“Yeah, I mean, I think VC money does flow naturally across borders. I mean, just look at where we invest. We'll come anywhere. We'll go out of our way to find companies.”
James Cameron Jan 20, 2016 ▶ 20:17 20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
Insight
Crossing the Chasm has everything needed to scale enterprise software
“More, I think, you know, I think there's everything you ever need to learn about scaling an enterprise software company is in that book.”
James Cameron Jan 20, 2016 ▶ 21:26 20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
Disclosure
Accel rejected James Cameron's startup pitch before hiring him as an investor
“But oddly enough, the first interaction I had with Accel was when I went in there and I was pitching them my business. So I was on the other side of the table from where I am now. And it was a good experience. You know, I was politely shown the door. I said, t…”
James Cameron Jan 20, 2016 ▶ 2:53 20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
Disclosure
Accel made its first New Zealand investment in accounting software Xero
“In New Zealand, even, we did our first Kiwi investment this year, a company called Xero.”
James Cameron Jan 20, 2016 ▶ 4:08 20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
Insight
Cybersecurity lifecycles always lag behind major IT platform shifts
“The classic security life cycle is always, You know, infrastructure shifts into a new platform attackers find vulnerabilities in that platform, and then the security community has to come and sort of remediate and solve those problems.”
James Cameron Jan 20, 2016 ▶ 11:24 20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software

The other half of the tape: James Cameron's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 2 episodes on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterpri Jan 20, 2016 19m
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