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Jim Scheinman

Founder & Managing Partner, Maven Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jim Scheinman is the Founder and Managing Partner at Maven Ventures, a seed-stage consumer VC firm. Prior to Maven, he served as Head of Business Development and Sales at Friendster.

13statements → 2claims → 1claims resolved → 4.38/5average certainty → 1.77/5average debate potential → 3.9/5argument clarity · the sources →

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 2 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 2 opinions · 2 insights · 7 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names 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 Jim 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
Yahoo will not survive as an independent company for much longer
“It was Yahoo and still around, not for long though”
Jim Scheinman Mar 2, 2016 ▶ 2:51 20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Scheinman @ Maven Ventures

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

3.9 / 5 directness 3.7 · coherence 4.1 · precision 3.8 · compression 3.2

redirected or did not address 3 of 13 assessed questions (23%). 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? →

275 words/min while actually speaking · 19.3 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,563 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 2/10
setup questions received 80%

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

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mobile photo swiping will look primitive compared to VR social by 2021
“I actually, I'll go on record and say, I think in three to five years, and maybe even sooner, we'll look back and laugh at how we thought swiping through pictures on mobile or looking at photos on the internet was social networking.”
Jim Scheinman Mar 2, 2016 ▶ 7:23 20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Scheinman @ Maven Ventures
Opinion
Facebook and Twitter monopolies make scaling new mobile consumer apps nearly impossible
“But the truth is it's going to be really hard to scale another consumer app in the mobile shop. I mean, it's just mature. It's a mature market. And the big players that have a monopoly like Facebook and Twitter are not opening their platforms anymore.”
Jim Scheinman Mar 2, 2016 ▶ 13:56 20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Scheinman @ Maven Ventures
Insight
Breakout consumer tech success is 80% luck and timing
“Number 10, which unfortunately you and I have very little control over, is luck and timing. And that's about 80%, right? You have to do all these amazing things, have the right vision, have the right team, have the right culture, have the right marketing, you …”
Jim Scheinman Mar 2, 2016 ▶ 16:18 20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Scheinman @ Maven Ventures
Prediction Held up
Yahoo will not survive as an independent company for much longer
“It was Yahoo and still around, not for long though”
Jim Scheinman Mar 2, 2016 ▶ 2:51 20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Scheinman @ Maven Ventures
Opinion
Friendster's social networking concept was a $100 billion market opportunity
“And that really was a hundred billion dollar idea.”
Jim Scheinman Mar 2, 2016 ▶ 4:42 20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Scheinman @ Maven Ventures
Disclosure
Maven Ventures sold mobile app Check to Intuit for nearly $400M
“One called check, which we sold to Intuit last year for almost four hundred million dollars.”
Jim Scheinman Mar 2, 2016 ▶ 8:35 20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Scheinman @ Maven Ventures
Disclosure
Tango reached a $1 billion valuation with 350 million users
“Tango, we were, I was, you know, I helped name that company. It was the first mobile messaging video conferencing app on the iPhone, Android phone, still has three hundred fifty million customers. We had a billion dollar valuation last year by Alibaba investme…”
Jim Scheinman Mar 2, 2016 ▶ 8:48 20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Scheinman @ Maven Ventures
Insight
Consumer startups fail by only offering incremental product improvements
“Most startups fail in the consumer space when they build something that's a little bit better than what you can do. Because frankly, like, we're lazy. Consumers are lazy. And if I have to learn a new habit, it better be something so great that I need to do, or…”
Jim Scheinman Mar 2, 2016 ▶ 17:49 20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Scheinman @ Maven Ventures
Disclosure
Maven Ventures passed on Bitcoin because the asset class didn't speak to them
“We're not an investor in Bitcoin and, you know, money works. It could be better. Yeah. We'll see. I mean, I, I'm not a in super opposition to a Bitcoin, but it didn't speak to us.”
Jim Scheinman Mar 2, 2016 ▶ 18:23 20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Scheinman @ Maven Ventures
Disclosure
Jim Scheinman passed on Waze because Kleiner Perkins drove the valuation too high
“In particular, one that I got there just a little bit too late was Waze. I love Waze. And you know, Kleiner put a bunch of money and it was too expensive for me at that point”
Jim Scheinman Mar 2, 2016 ▶ 21:01 20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Scheinman @ Maven Ventures
Disclosure
Jim Scheinman missed out on investing early in Airbnb
“As soon as I saw Airbnb, missed that one too, but I thought an Airbnb for food idea was a big idea”
Jim Scheinman Mar 2, 2016 ▶ 23:30 20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Scheinman @ Maven Ventures
Disclosure
NBC Internet reached a $6 billion valuation overnight after going public
“And overnight we were a six billion dollar company.”
Jim Scheinman Mar 2, 2016 ▶ 3:09 20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Scheinman @ Maven Ventures
Disclosure
Bebo sold to AOL in 2008 for nearly $1 billion
“We sold that in 2008 AOL for almost a billion dollars.”
Jim Scheinman Mar 2, 2016 ▶ 5:03 20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Scheinman @ Maven Ventures

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20VC: Building a Game Changing Consumer Startup and Hunting His 4th Unicorn with Jim Schei Mar 2, 2016 18m
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