Jonathan Downey
Founder & CEO, Airware · 1 appearance on the record.
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Jonathan Downey is the Founder and CEO of Airware, an aerial data startup using drones. He is also a General Partner at the Commercial Drone Fund.
1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 2 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
2 predictions · 2 assertions · 3 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, 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 Jonathan 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
Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →
answered every one of 19 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? →
211 words/min while actually speaking · 11.8 um and uh per 1k words
Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,566 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:
Everything Jonathan Downey said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
The other half of the tape: Jonathan Downey'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 →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 3
Every mention by year
2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Coinbase's Brian Armstrong on The Rise & Short Term Correction in ICOs, The Regulatory Framework Required For Blockchain To Succeed & How The Rise of Blockchain Disrupts The VC Industry
- 20VC: Why It Is Good Company Funding Has Been Down 6 Quarters In A Row, Why Unanimity Does Not Work In VC Decision-Making & Why It Is Dangerous To Be A Spreadsheet Investor with Scott Raney, Partner @ Redpoint Ventures
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| 20VC: The Future Business Model For Drones & Why Enterprise Drones Need To Be As Boring As | May 19, 2017 | 17m |