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Leore Avidar

Founder & CEO, Alt · 1 appearance on the record.

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Leore Avidar co-founded Lob in 2013, an API company that automates direct mail and address verification for enterprises. He subsequently launched Alt, a venture-backed marketplace and vaulting platform providing liquidity and pricing data for sports cards and alternative assets.

8statements → 1claims → 1claims resolved → 3.88/5average certainty → 2.75/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 2said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted how the 1 claim stands · each chip opens the sources

1 assertion · 6 insights · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. 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 Leore 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
Typical tech companies only retain employees for one to two years
“Everyone is doing all these crazy things, and they're only able to retain people for one to two years.”
Leore Avidar Mar 9, 2018 ▶ 21:03 20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob

How they sound: speaking style how? →

257 words/min while actually speaking · 0.6 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Leore Avidar: 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 15 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.5/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.

Measured by listening to 4,777 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Leore Avidar 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 ▾ 2/10
setup questions received 85%

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

What-if
Leore Avidar regrets raising venture capital because Lob could self-fund
“And so for Lobb, I mean, I wish I hadn't raised money because we keep doing well and we're able to self-fund through sales.”
Leore Avidar Mar 9, 2018 ▶ 12:33 20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
Insight
VCs act irrationally when driven by peer investment FOMO, says Leore Avidar
“Investors and VCs actually act very similarly, and they don't always act rationally when their peers are looking to make an investment, or they see this shiny new startup that's going out to raise money.”
Leore Avidar Mar 9, 2018 ▶ 8:46 20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
Insight
Controlled growth means maintaining a path to profitability within six months
“Controlled growth is a mindset, and it's one where it's a growth trajectory that you can easily tweak that growth dial up and down and always have the ability to become profitable within six months.”
Leore Avidar Mar 9, 2018 ▶ 13:22 20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
Insight
Most startup bankruptcies occur due to irresponsible growth, says Leore Avidar
“Most companies go bankrupt because they weren't responsible about their growth.”
Leore Avidar Mar 9, 2018 ▶ 17:23 20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
Assertion Supported
Typical tech companies only retain employees for one to two years
“Everyone is doing all these crazy things, and they're only able to retain people for one to two years.”
Leore Avidar Mar 9, 2018 ▶ 21:03 20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
Insight
Companies must promote internally rather than hire external managers for retention
“When there's an opportunity to promote somebody or you're looking for a manager on the team, you can't be in the mindset that you're going to go and hire somebody else from Another company. You have to invest in your own teammates.”
Leore Avidar Mar 9, 2018 ▶ 21:48 20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
Insight
Raising capital with under a year of runway destroys founder leverage
“When it gets to under a year, you're putting yourself in a position where you can't say no to any term.”
Leore Avidar Mar 9, 2018 ▶ 11:47 20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
Insight
Startups need executive leaders by late Series A or 25 employees
“It happens generally around, I would say, late series A, or when you're around 20 to 25 people, that you really need other people within the company to go and tackle big divisions within your company.”
Leore Avidar Mar 9, 2018 ▶ 20:19 20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob

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

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 2

Every mention by year

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Su Mar 9, 2018 20m
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