Jeremy Johnson

Co-Founder and Board Member, Andela · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jeremy Johnson co-founded the online education platform 2U, which completed an IPO on the Nasdaq in 2014. He subsequently co-founded Andela, a global developer-talent marketplace and tech unicorn that originally launched to train and connect African software engineers with global enterprises.

7statements → 5claims → 3claims resolved → 100%fully supported → 4/5average certainty → 2.29/5average debate potential → 4.3/5argument clarity · the sources → 1said about them ↓

3 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 4 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 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 Jeremy 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
Johnson: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative had never led a round before Andela
“Now, then it was referred to as Zuckerberg education ventures, and they had made a handful of investments, but hadn't led around.”
Jeremy Johnson Feb 24, 2017 ▶ 8:37 20VC: Raising $24m From The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Why EdTech Is So Misunderstood & Why The Future Of Work Is Decentralised with Andela's Jeremy Johnson

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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100% certainty 4
100% 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 4.3 · coherence 4.6 · precision 3.9 · compression 3.9

answered every one of 13 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? →

244 words/min while actually speaking · 13.1 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,971 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 →

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

Opinion
Johnson: Nairobi's 2014 Tech Scene Outpaced NYC's 2007 Ecosystem
“And the ecosystem in Nairobi felt even more developed than that. And also moving even more quickly.”
Jeremy Johnson Feb 24, 2017 ▶ 4:17 20VC: Raising $24m From The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Why EdTech Is So Misunderstood & Why The Future Of Work Is Decentralised with Andela's Jeremy Johnson
Insight
Johnson: Consumer Software Playbooks Fail in EdTech Due to Outcome Focus
“Most people pursue education because they're looking for an outcome. So looking to change their life or their child's life in some way, as a result of that, trying to sort of create a build it and they will come style open education platform is really well int…”
Jeremy Johnson Feb 24, 2017 ▶ 12:02 20VC: Raising $24m From The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Why EdTech Is So Misunderstood & Why The Future Of Work Is Decentralised with Andela's Jeremy Johnson
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Johnson: VR will seamlessly replicate in-person meetings by 2027
“10 years from now, we'll be able to create, like, a virtual reality experience where it will feel like you and I are having this conversation, even though we're across the pond or across the Atlantic. It will feel as if we're next to each other. We'll be able …”
Jeremy Johnson Feb 24, 2017 ▶ 15:25 20VC: Raising $24m From The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Why EdTech Is So Misunderstood & Why The Future Of Work Is Decentralised with Andela's Jeremy Johnson
Assertion Supported
Johnson: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative had never led a round before Andela
“Now, then it was referred to as Zuckerberg education ventures, and they had made a handful of investments, but hadn't led around.”
Jeremy Johnson Feb 24, 2017 ▶ 8:37 20VC: Raising $24m From The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Why EdTech Is So Misunderstood & Why The Future Of Work Is Decentralised with Andela's Jeremy Johnson
Assertion Supported
Johnson: EdTech Was Overhyped From 2012 to 2014 and Is Correcting
“There was a period of time when it was a little overhyped and I think we're seeing a bit of a correction from that you know, from like the 2012 through 2014 period of time.”
Jeremy Johnson Feb 24, 2017 ▶ 12:36 20VC: Raising $24m From The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Why EdTech Is So Misunderstood & Why The Future Of Work Is Decentralised with Andela's Jeremy Johnson
Assertion Supported
Johnson: One-third of US developers already work remotely part-time
“A third of developers in the U S are working in a distributed fashion, at least part time right now.”
Jeremy Johnson Feb 24, 2017 ▶ 15:12 20VC: Raising $24m From The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Why EdTech Is So Misunderstood & Why The Future Of Work Is Decentralised with Andela's Jeremy Johnson
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Johnson: Andela's Lagos office has better internet than its NYC headquarters
“We do fiber optic cable come directly from the undersea cables off the coast of Africa to our campus through a Partner, main one. Yes, it's more expensive. It took more time, but we have a better net connection in Lagos than we do in New York”
Jeremy Johnson Feb 24, 2017 ▶ 19:13 20VC: Raising $24m From The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Why EdTech Is So Misunderstood & Why The Future Of Work Is Decentralised with Andela's Jeremy Johnson

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20VC: Raising $24m From The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Why EdTech Is So Misunderstood & W Feb 24, 2017 13m
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