Kate Shillo
Director, Galvanize Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.
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Kate Shillo is a Director at Galvanize Ventures, the investment arm of Galvanize. The organization operates tech campuses that provide coworking spaces and educational programs.
1 supported 0 partly supported 2 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
1 prediction · 3 assertions · 4 insights · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are 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 Kate 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? →
redirected or did not address 2 of 17 assessed questions (12%). 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? →
229 words/min while actually speaking · 23.2 um and uh per 1k words
Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,303 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 Kate Shillo said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| 20 VC: Investing in Hardware and The Future of IOT with Kate Shillo, Director @ Galvanize | Jan 13, 2016 | 21m |