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Jason Pressman

Managing Director, Shasta Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jason Pressman is an early-stage software and consumer technology investor who previously served as Vice President of Strategy and Operations at Walmart.com. He joined Shasta Ventures in 2005 and has served on the boards of companies including Zuora, Nextdoor, Lattice, Smule, and data.world.

12statements → 6claims → 3claims resolved → 100%fully supported → 4.17/5average certainty → 2.83/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated →

3 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 predictions · 2 assertions · 5 opinions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 3 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 Jason 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

Prediction Held up
Esports will draw a larger global audience than the NFL by 2022
“I do. Based on the underlying data today and how accessible it is to people, I do believe it will be larger, certainly, than the NFL.”
Jason Pressman Jul 19, 2017 ▶ 20:37 20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures

How they sound: speaking style how? →

257 words/min while actually speaking · 6.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Jason Pressman: 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 8 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 4,223 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Jason Pressman 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 ▾ 3/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 4/10
setup questions received 55%

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

Opinion
The VC adage that you never regret paying high prices is bullshit
“Some VCs say that you never regret paying a high price for getting into a good company, but I think that that is a bullshit. I think that you never regret paying a high price for an extraordinary company like Facebook, but there's only really one like that eve…”
Jason Pressman Jul 19, 2017 ▶ 11:45 20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
Insight
SaaS startups with $10k to $100k annual contract values usually fail
“When you get caught in the middle, Somewhere between the 10 and a hundred K, you almost always end up on this slippery slope where your gross margins suck and you're upside down on your customer acquisition costs and the ultimate SAS model just doesn't work. A…”
Jason Pressman Jul 19, 2017 ▶ 16:01 20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
Prediction Held up
Esports will draw a larger global audience than the NFL by 2022
“I do. Based on the underlying data today and how accessible it is to people, I do believe it will be larger, certainly, than the NFL.”
Jason Pressman Jul 19, 2017 ▶ 20:37 20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
Prediction Not checkable as stated
A robust IPO market inflates VC valuations and depresses overall returns
“There's just a good chance that With a robust public market, you'll see more dollars coming in to venture, and more dollars coming in means higher valuations at every round, and it just overall can drive returns down.”
Jason Pressman Jul 19, 2017 ▶ 9:31 20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
Opinion
IPOs for tech companies with 20% growth are a healthy market sign
“There are really good companies that grow at twenty-ish percent a year, and the fact that they are able to get public actually doesn't alarm me. I actually view it as a really healthy sign that good companies that are growing at reasonable rates, but not some …”
Jason Pressman Jul 19, 2017 ▶ 8:35 20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
Opinion
Early-stage VCs reacting to current public IPO markets is stupid
“What's going on in the public markets today has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on what a liquidity market's going to look like when those companies are ready to either go public or be acquired. So I think it's really stupid, but it's quite commonplace”
Jason Pressman Jul 19, 2017 ▶ 10:53 20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
Opinion
Social networking innovation is not dead post-Snapchat IPO
“So I don't think social is dead. I think we'll continue to see really powerful applications of social, and we're absolutely continuing to look for them.”
Jason Pressman Jul 19, 2017 ▶ 21:45 20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
Prediction Not checkable as stated
VR is a next-generation platform that will blow everyone's mind
“It is an earth-shattering experience, and we're in the early innings of it. It is truly Extraordinary, life-changing, and it's a next-generation platform. Things that are going to, the amazing things that entrepreneurs are going to do in VR are going to blow e…”
Jason Pressman Jul 19, 2017 ▶ 22:39 20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
Assertion Supported
Only 15 percent of software is delivered as SaaS
“Even today, only fifteen-ish percent of total software is delivered as SaaS, so we're still early in that transition”
Jason Pressman Jul 19, 2017 ▶ 5:21 20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
Assertion Supported
Late-stage $50M to $200M mega-rounds dried up in 2015 and 2016
“The very late stage private market valuations and private rounds have largely gone away. So in 2013, 14, even early 15, there were very large rounds done fifty hundred, two hundred million dollars in late stage private companies. And a lot of those investors d…”
Jason Pressman Jul 19, 2017 ▶ 7:18 20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Strong institutional demand will keep the tech IPO market open long-term
“There's certainly demand, and we hear from the bankers and from institutional investors that there's tremendous pent-up demand right now, so I see no reason that the market's not going to stay open for quite a while and that the demand is going to be there.”
Jason Pressman Jul 19, 2017 ▶ 8:08 20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures
Opinion
Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo delivered the most impressive Series A pitch
“I have to say the Series A pitch that Teen Sue, the CEO of Zawara, did. He is an amazing storyteller, and at the time, he painted a vision for the subscription economy and how Zawara was going to be the leader in that category, and he has executed against it b…”
Jason Pressman Jul 19, 2017 ▶ 22:18 20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, Why There Are Only 2 Price Points That Work in SaaS and Why eSports Will Be Bigger Than Traditional Sports in 5 Years Time with Jason Pressman @ Shasta Ventures

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20VC: Why It Is BS That You Never Regret Paying A High Price To Get Into A Good Company, W Jul 19, 2017 18m
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