Jesse Middleton
General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners · 1 appearance on the record.
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Jesse Middleton is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, where he leads early-stage investments in AI applications, developer platforms, and future-of-work companies. Previously, he was an early executive at WeWork, where he co-founded WeWork Labs in 2011.
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Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →
answered every one of 22 assessed questions directly
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How they sound: speaking style how? →
248 words/min while actually speaking · 11.7 um and uh per 1k words
Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,789 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 →
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Across 1 rated episode:
Everything Jesse Middleton said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
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Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| 20VC: Why Great Founders Are Both Visionary & Stubborn, The Investment Mindset Shift From | Aug 31, 2016 | 22m |