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Lisa Wu

Partner, Norwest Venture Partners · 1 appearance on the record.

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Lisa Wu is a Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, where she focuses on consumer internet, marketplaces, digital commerce, and wellness investments. She previously worked in Amazon's Corporate Development team and at Bessemer Venture Partners.

11statements → 4claims → 1claims resolved → 3.82/5average certainty → 2.27/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated →

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 3 assertions · 1 opinion · 4 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 3 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 Lisa 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
Lisa Wu: Norwest's $1.2B fund invests from $100k to tens of millions
“Given that we are a 1.2 billion dollar fund, we have a lot of flexibility in our investment size, so we can invest anywhere from a couple 100,000 dollars to as large as tens of millions of dollars”
Lisa Wu Feb 26, 2015 ▶ 5:24 20 VC 015: Marketplaces, IPOs and the NY Startup Scene with Lisa Wu

How they sound: speaking style how? →

256 words/min while actually speaking · 18.2 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Lisa Wu: only 4 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 4 raw tape exchanges is ≈4.5/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,196 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 ▾ 3/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 1/10
setup questions received 70%

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

Insight
Lisa Wu: Founder track record does not correlate with consumer startup success
“There really hasn't been a correlation in the consumer space of You know, having to be a prior successful entrepreneur and the success of their current business.”
Lisa Wu Feb 26, 2015 ▶ 10:11 20 VC 015: Marketplaces, IPOs and the NY Startup Scene with Lisa Wu
Insight
Lisa Wu: Lifestyle businesses require the same 24/7 effort as IPO-bound startups
“Time is all of our most valuable asset. And whether you create a company that is a profitable lifestyle business, or one that eventually goes public one day, it still takes the same amount of effort, which is 24 seven of your time.”
Lisa Wu Feb 26, 2015 ▶ 1:58 20 VC 015: Marketplaces, IPOs and the NY Startup Scene with Lisa Wu
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lisa Wu: New York startup ecosystem remains behind Silicon Valley
“The New York startup ecosystem is just still behind Silicon Valley.”
Lisa Wu Feb 26, 2015 ▶ 10:51 20 VC 015: Marketplaces, IPOs and the NY Startup Scene with Lisa Wu
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lisa Wu: New York will take decades to catch Silicon Valley
“It's gonna take several, you know, maybe even decades for it to catch up to Silicon Valley just because the West Coast has really been a breeding ground for innovative tech companies for a while now.”
Lisa Wu Feb 26, 2015 ▶ 11:51 20 VC 015: Marketplaces, IPOs and the NY Startup Scene with Lisa Wu
Opinion
Lisa Wu: West Coast VCs take bigger risk bets than East Coast
“I would say that people, the investors in the West Coast are probably more likely to swing for the fences and take those big visions versus on the East Coast. There might be a little more I guess, you know, wanting a business model and all that stuff.”
Lisa Wu Feb 26, 2015 ▶ 12:19 20 VC 015: Marketplaces, IPOs and the NY Startup Scene with Lisa Wu
Insight
Lisa Wu: Working in VC raises the bar for launching a startup
“What happens in venture is the longer you stay in, it's almost harder for you to go start a business because your bar becomes super high because you understand all the challenges and how difficult it is to actually scale a business,”
Lisa Wu Feb 26, 2015 ▶ 3:17 20 VC 015: Marketplaces, IPOs and the NY Startup Scene with Lisa Wu
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lisa Wu: Norwest rarely converts cold inbound pitches into actual investments
“We get a lot of inbound via LinkedIn and also through our website, and we do review each of those opportunities that come through those, but it's actually pretty rare that an opportunity that comes in through those channels actually converts into an actual inv…”
Lisa Wu Feb 26, 2015 ▶ 7:10 20 VC 015: Marketplaces, IPOs and the NY Startup Scene with Lisa Wu
Insight
Lisa Wu: Maintaining principles 100% of the time is easier than 98%
“It's easier to hold to your principles a hundred percent of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.”
Lisa Wu Feb 26, 2015 ▶ 14:55 20 VC 015: Marketplaces, IPOs and the NY Startup Scene with Lisa Wu
Disclosure
Lisa Wu: Market size is the top reason Norwest rejects startups
“I would say, given our fund size, it would be market size.”
Lisa Wu Feb 26, 2015 ▶ 15:12 20 VC 015: Marketplaces, IPOs and the NY Startup Scene with Lisa Wu
Disclosure
Norwest Venture Partners was the Series A investor in Lending Club
“At Northwest, we've made several bets on marketplaces. We were The Series A investor in this company called Lending Club, which is a marketplace for peer-to-peer lending.”
Lisa Wu Feb 26, 2015 ▶ 4:55 20 VC 015: Marketplaces, IPOs and the NY Startup Scene with Lisa Wu
Assertion Supported
Lisa Wu: Norwest's $1.2B fund invests from $100k to tens of millions
“Given that we are a 1.2 billion dollar fund, we have a lot of flexibility in our investment size, so we can invest anywhere from a couple 100,000 dollars to as large as tens of millions of dollars”
Lisa Wu Feb 26, 2015 ▶ 5:24 20 VC 015: Marketplaces, IPOs and the NY Startup Scene with Lisa Wu

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC 015: Marketplaces, IPOs and the NY Startup Scene with Lisa Wu Feb 26, 2015 10m
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