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Kathleen Utecht

Partner Emeritus, Core Innovation Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Kat Utecht is an early-stage investor backing fintech, insurtech, and healthcare finance companies that expand financial access. Prior to her venture roles at Core Innovation Capital, Comcast Ventures, and WVP Ventures, she co-founded and served as CEO of Green Rock Entertainment, which was acquired in 2009.

11statements → 3claims → 1claims resolved → 3.73/5average certainty → 2.45/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated → 1said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 1 assertion · 1 opinion · 6 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 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 Kathleen 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
Retail investors will lose a ton of money in ICOs
“So they scare me. I think there's going to be some really great ones, but I think people are going to lose a ton of money, like, and just everyday people. Whenever there's so much money going around, and people think they can make a quick buck, and there's a l…”
Kathleen Utecht Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 23:55 20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital

How they sound: speaking style how? →

250 words/min while actually speaking · 6.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Kathleen Utecht: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 19 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.0/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.

Measured by listening to 4,341 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Kathleen Utecht is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

How the interview went all their pushback → series average →

Across 1 rated episode:

host pushback ▾ 3/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 1/10
setup questions received 75%

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

Prediction Held up
Retail investors will lose a ton of money in ICOs
“So they scare me. I think there's going to be some really great ones, but I think people are going to lose a ton of money, like, and just everyday people. Whenever there's so much money going around, and people think they can make a quick buck, and there's a l…”
Kathleen Utecht Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 23:55 20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Generalist VCs assuming fintech startups can break regulatory rules will fail
“I think the good companies, they are having sector-specific funds in, and the ones that are getting funded, like, I think it's because the investors actually just don't understand what They're investing either, and think they'll just be able to break some of t…”
Kathleen Utecht Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 12:52 20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital
Insight
Being a VC is a lifestyle that must be as important as family
“So I think that's why I say it's a lifestyle, and I tell all these young people that are going to try to get into VC, like, to realize that this is their life, and that it's as important as their family, and it should be their top priority.”
Kathleen Utecht Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 19:24 20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital
Opinion
Tech instant gratification is putting society on a downgrade
“We've given all these people these games and this instant gratification, and then we ask them to step back and contemplate major decisions. I think that's just a really hard thing to do right now, and I think you're seeing a whole society. As I said, it's on a…”
Kathleen Utecht Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 6:34 20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital
Insight
Fintech cannot be solved by 20-year-olds in a garage
“We always joke that FinTech isn't just a Stanford problem. Very hard to take two, 20 year olds in a garage and try to solve a problem. You really have to understand how the ecosystem works and how you fit into it.”
Kathleen Utecht Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 12:10 20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital
Insight
Unlike ridesharing, the CFPB will shut down non-compliant fintech startups
“And especially in these highly regulated industries like healthcare or financial services, you have to realize it's not the hotel industry. It's not the taxi lobby. Like the CFPB, the Consumer Finance Production Bureau, they'll shut you down.”
Kathleen Utecht Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 12:35 20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Core Innovation Capital portfolio saved 25 million people $6B last year
“Our companies last year had saved twenty-five million people about six billion dollars, and that, that was just in two”
Kathleen Utecht Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 8:08 20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital
Insight
VCs with no failed portfolio companies are not taking enough risk
“We say if it doesn't, we're probably not taking enough risk, and there's some things that we want to invest in that we're, they're clearly binary.”
Kathleen Utecht Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 16:21 20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital
Insight
Good VCs should deliver target introductions for founders within 48 hours
“If your investor is worth anything, it should be able to get you to the right person. And that person should have enough respect for them to either say, yeah, it's a fair or no, it's not. And so you should have that connection within 48 hours.”
Kathleen Utecht Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 20:33 20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital
Insight
Regulatory chaos creates prime growth opportunities for strong startup teams
“So many changes, and they still haven't figured out what's going through it, and I think whenever there's, like, a lot of chaos and confusion, there's, when you have smart people that can build good products, they can really help people understand that market,…”
Kathleen Utecht Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 25:36 20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital
Disclosure
Core sequences long-horizon investments early in its 10-year fund cycles
“So, so our fund will, It was 10, 10 plus two, and you could see how in some of the things that we're funding that they're going to be take a full 10 years, and so we're very well aware when we're investing to invest in some of those companies in the beginning …”
Kathleen Utecht Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 10:49 20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital

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Appearances (1)

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20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals Sep 13, 2017 18m
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