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Jonathan Triest

VC, Ludlow · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jonathan Triest is a venture capitalist affiliated with seed fund Ludlow. He focuses on fundraising, accelerators, deal flow, and supporting portfolio founders.

7statements → 0claims → 0claims resolved → 4/5average certainty → 1.71/5average debate potential → 4.0/5argument clarity · the sources → 10said about them ↓

1 opinion · 1 insight · 5 disclosures · every statement was checked. none of them is a claim the record can settle: opinions, insights and disclosures never carry an 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.

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

4.0 / 5 directness 3.9 · coherence 4.5 · precision 3.4 · compression 3.4

redirected or did not address 2 of 12 assessed questions (17%). 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? →

261 words/min while actually speaking · 19.9 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,513 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 ▾ 3/10
setup questions received 75%

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

Disclosure
Ludlow Ventures pays for startup promo videos in exchange for equity
“So the deal we struck is that we pay for the company's video, so they don't have to go out of pocket, and in exchange, Adam and Ludlow take equity in the company.”
Jonathan Triest Jul 20, 2015 ▶ 11:56 20 VC 055: VC Done Right with Jonathon Triest @ Ludlow Ventures
Insight
Triest: Corporate VCs have smaller networks because they do not fundraise
“There are certain firms who invest off balance sheets of big corporations, which is great, and they do really wonderful things, but their networks are always generally smaller and I think a lot of that has to do with the lack of fundraising, because they're no…”
Jonathan Triest Jul 20, 2015 ▶ 7:59 20 VC 055: VC Done Right with Jonathon Triest @ Ludlow Ventures
Disclosure
Triest: Ludlow Ventures focuses on family office LPs over institutional investors
“Yeah, I think our sweet spot is really still with high net worth individuals and family offices. Again, you know, our relationship with our LPs is very similar to our relationship with the founders we invest in. Like we're, we want to build really strong, mean…”
Jonathan Triest Jul 20, 2015 ▶ 8:25 20 VC 055: VC Done Right with Jonathon Triest @ Ludlow Ventures
Disclosure
Triest: Once a startup enters Y Combinator, we missed our premier opportunity
“In terms of investing, once a company's in an accelerator, it depends on which accelerator, but if you take like a YC, for example, it's generally too, you know, we've kind of missed our premier opportunity to invest in the company. Our goal is to find the com…”
Jonathan Triest Jul 20, 2015 ▶ 12:53 20 VC 055: VC Done Right with Jonathon Triest @ Ludlow Ventures
Opinion
Triest: Outdoor advertising is stale and gross
“You know, it's a play on a, to disrupt outdoor advertising, which is just so stale and gross.”
Jonathan Triest Jul 20, 2015 ▶ 23:00 20 VC 055: VC Done Right with Jonathon Triest @ Ludlow Ventures
Disclosure
Triest: Ludlow Ventures raised a $16M fund in 2013
“And then we raised the proper fund in 2013. That was close to sixteen million dollars.”
Jonathan Triest Jul 20, 2015 ▶ 7:03 20 VC 055: VC Done Right with Jonathon Triest @ Ludlow Ventures
Disclosure
Triest: Ludlow Ventures deployed $1M in its 2009 initial vehicle
“We put about a million dollars to use in 2009.”
Jonathan Triest Jul 20, 2015 ▶ 6:14 20 VC 055: VC Done Right with Jonathon Triest @ Ludlow Ventures

The other half of the tape: Jonathan Triest's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 9 times in 2 episodes on 20VC. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Andrew Farah 6Harry Stebbings 3

Statements about Jonathan Triest, by other people (1)

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ludlow's Jonathan Triest introduced Density to leads in all three rounds
“Jonathan is a close friend and someone, he's one of our earliest investors, and he has introduced us to the lead of every round we've done, and we've done three.”
Andrew Farah Sep 7, 2018 ▶ 6:07 20VC: The Mindset The Best Investors Assume When Assessing Opportunities, Why So Many Hardware Startups Fail Today & The Right Way To Think About Employee Retention with Andrew Farah, Founder & CEO @ Density

Every mention by year

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2018 6 mentions in 1 episode
2016 3 mentions in 1 episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC 055: VC Done Right with Jonathon Triest @ Ludlow Ventures Jul 20, 2015 16m
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