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Keith Teare

Founder, Archimedes Labs · 1 appearance on the record.

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Keith Teare is the Founder of Archimedes Labs and the Co-Founder of TechCrunch. He previously founded RealNames Corporation and incubated startups such as M.Dot, TechCrunch, and Red Swoosh.

13statements → 7claims → 6claims resolved → 33%fully supported → 4.38/5average certainty → 2.54/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated → 2said about them ↓

2 supported 2 partly supported 2 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

7 assertions · 3 opinions · 2 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 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 Keith 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

Assertion Supported
Teare: Mick Jagger Invested in 1990s Cyberia Internet Cafe
“Mick Jagger was an investor in it.”
Keith Teare Apr 16, 2015 ▶ 8:26 20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Teare: 98% of Seed-Stage Startups Die From Lack of Follow-On Funding
“About 98% of those companies die. And they die because there is no money to fund the next step, which is to build a team and build something really substantial.”
Keith Teare Apr 16, 2015 ▶ 20:58 20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
none yet certainty 3
25% certainty 4
63% certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: speaking style how? →

208 words/min while actually speaking · 41.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Keith Teare: only 3 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 3 raw tape exchanges is ≈4.0/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,701 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 ▾ 1/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 2/10
setup questions received 65%

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

Opinion
Teare: Economic Independence for Women Is More Important Than Voting Rights
“Well, allowing women to work would seem to be a pretty big step, even more important than allowing women to vote. Because with money comes power, and freeing women of the responsibility for individually raising their children, you know, goes right to the heart…”
Keith Teare Apr 16, 2015 ▶ 10:05 20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Teare: Structural Position of Women in Tech Remains Virtually Unchanged
“But the truth is, the structural position of women is barely changed, except, you know, you can point to very high-profile exceptions, very similar to the structural position of African-Americans or African Europeans, who, you know, you can get a high-profile …”
Keith Teare Apr 16, 2015 ▶ 11:36 20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
Assertion Contradicted
Teare: 98% of Seed-Stage Startups Die From Lack of Follow-On Funding
“About 98% of those companies die. And they die because there is no money to fund the next step, which is to build a team and build something really substantial.”
Keith Teare Apr 16, 2015 ▶ 20:58 20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
Assertion Partly supported
Teare: Series A and B Face Severe Capital Shortage
“There's about five billion dollars available at the seed stage for all the companies every three to five years. There's about one to two billion available at the A and B stage. And then at the growth stage, at the other end, there's more than a hundred billion…”
Keith Teare Apr 16, 2015 ▶ 21:15 20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
Opinion
Teare: No Rational Silicon Valley Founder Launches Android First
“IOS first, which is very typical here in the Valley. No one does Android first unless they are, you know, somehow politically minded to make that choice. No rational business person does that.”
Keith Teare Apr 16, 2015 ▶ 26:12 20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
Insight
Teare: Foreign Founders in Silicon Valley Are Judged More on Merit
“As a foreigner, you get judged on your merits. Actually easier than Americans. Americans, you know, they do ask which school did you go to each other, and it doesn't matter what the answer is. But if you're a foreigner that, that doesn't play a role.”
Keith Teare Apr 16, 2015 ▶ 19:00 20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
Opinion
Teare: VCs Naively Expect $100K to Go Far in Modern Startups
“But the funding environment has kind of got a delayed reaction. It still acts as if it is cheap, and it thinks you can do a lot with a 100,000 dollars, which you can't.”
Keith Teare Apr 16, 2015 ▶ 23:20 20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
Assertion Contradicted
Teare: EasyNet Was Europe's First Consumer ISP
“We started EasyNet, which was the first consumer ISP in Europe.”
Keith Teare Apr 16, 2015 ▶ 7:32 20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
Disclosure
Teare: TechCrunch Never Raised Outside Venture Capital
“TechCrunch never raised a penny. Ever.”
Keith Teare Apr 16, 2015 ▶ 14:55 20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
Insight
Teare: Mobile Startups Are Far More Expensive Than Web 2.0 Startups
“And that was somewhat true in the web two oh era, when all you had to build was a web service. It's really no longer true in the mobile era where you have to build an Android app, an iPhone app, a cloud service, and probably a web service as well.”
Keith Teare Apr 16, 2015 ▶ 22:55 20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
Assertion Supported
Teare: Mick Jagger Invested in 1990s Cyberia Internet Cafe
“Mick Jagger was an investor in it.”
Keith Teare Apr 16, 2015 ▶ 8:26 20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
Assertion Partly supported
Teare: RealNames Raised $130M and Filed for $1.5B IPO in 1999
“We raised a hundred and thirty million dollars. We filed for a one and a half billion dollar IPO. In 1999.”
Keith Teare Apr 16, 2015 ▶ 13:45 20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
Assertion Supported
Teare: EasyNet IPO'd Without Ever Raising Venture Capital
“We grew the business from revenue from day one, and we never raised venture capital before we floated on the end market.”
Keith Teare Apr 16, 2015 ▶ 17:40 20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare

The other half of the tape: Keith Teare's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 2 times in 1 episode on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Kei Apr 16, 2015 21m
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