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Marc Bernegger

Founding Partner, Maximon · 1 appearance on the record.

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Early in his career, Bernegger co-founded the nightlife portal usgang.ch and the event ticketing platform amiando. Today, he focuses heavily on the longevity sector and emerging tech through Maximon, the Longevity Investors Conference, and board positions across various tech and digital finance companies.

12statements → 10claims → 4claims resolved → 50%fully supported → 3.08/5average certainty → 2/5average debate potential → 4.1/5argument clarity · the sources →

2 supported 2 partly supported 0 contradicted 6 not checkable as stated how the 10 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 predictions · 5 assertions · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 10 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 6 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 Marc 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
Around 40,000 people work in the UK fintech sector
“You're, I think having around 40,000 people working somehow connected to the fintech industry.”
Marc Bernegger Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 13:49 20 VC 024: Financing Finch with Marc Bernegger of Orange Growth Capital

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
67% certainty 3
100% certainty 4
none yet 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

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

4.1 / 5 directness 4.4 · coherence 4.3 · precision 3.6 · compression 3.4

answered every one of 19 assessed questions directly

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? →

186 words/min while actually speaking · 86.4 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,522 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 ▾ 4/10
pushed back at the host 3/10
setup questions received 35%

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

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Only a few European payment startups will survive the current hype
“If you look into the payment space, there's no way that yeah, all of these innovative players and ideas will succeed. So out of the hundreds of companies just in Europe, Focusing on, on these disruptive changes. I think that at the end, just a few will succeed…”
Marc Bernegger Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 6:10 20 VC 024: Financing Finch with Marc Bernegger of Orange Growth Capital
Insight
Offering traditional banking for free rarely builds a large business
“Just by offering the same service like a traditional bank is doing let's say for free and much more efficient. It's great for the customer, but perhaps difficult to build a big business out of it.”
Marc Bernegger Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 7:40 20 VC 024: Financing Finch with Marc Bernegger of Orange Growth Capital
Prediction Partly held up
Fintech funding will triple again in 2015 alongside increased M&A
“We will see similar growth in this year, just because also a little, a lot of big players out of the traditional financial industry are joining the game. So there will be more M&A activities, more even more fundings and investment rounds.”
Marc Bernegger Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 9:36 20 VC 024: Financing Finch with Marc Bernegger of Orange Growth Capital
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Blockchain is a game changer, but Bitcoin faces a difficult future
“The future of blockchain is big. The future of Bitcoin is difficult, but I would separate it. So I think blockchain is really a game changer, and Bitcoin just a small part of the whole blockchain development.”
Marc Bernegger Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 18:09 20 VC 024: Financing Finch with Marc Bernegger of Orange Growth Capital
Prediction Partly held up
Major telcos will launch mobile payments to compete with Facebook and Snapchat
“I think there are much more other big players offering similar services in the next few months, including a lot of the big telcos, because they're not really interested just to let the Facebooks and Snapchats taking away this interesting interaction to the end…”
Marc Bernegger Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 11:36 20 VC 024: Financing Finch with Marc Bernegger of Orange Growth Capital
Assertion Supported
Around 40,000 people work in the UK fintech sector
“You're, I think having around 40,000 people working somehow connected to the fintech industry.”
Marc Bernegger Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 13:49 20 VC 024: Financing Finch with Marc Bernegger of Orange Growth Capital
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Swiss fintech will compete directly with the UK by 2017
“But I mean, it looks promising that we will accelerate and hopefully, I would say in two years from now can catch up and compete directly to first movers like the UK, for example.”
Marc Bernegger Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 14:02 20 VC 024: Financing Finch with Marc Bernegger of Orange Growth Capital
Assertion Not checkable as stated
No platform has successfully cracked social stock market trading yet
“The social element, I think it's something nobody really cracked so far. I mean, I hardly see anybody using Facebook or other social networks really talking about trading and the stock market. I mean, the people who are already deep into this world, I mean, it…”
Marc Bernegger Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 16:26 20 VC 024: Financing Finch with Marc Bernegger of Orange Growth Capital
Insight
Mobile UX, not social features, drives millennial trading adoption
“I think it's really more about the user experience, the accessibility the easy to use the app based smartphone oriented approach. So it's just more convenient to join the game. I mean, with Robin Hood, for example, it's just a smooth and convenient process. Yo…”
Marc Bernegger Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 16:56 20 VC 024: Financing Finch with Marc Bernegger of Orange Growth Capital
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Orange Growth Capital sees over 30 new fintech startups every week
“Today, I think we see more than 30 companies, new companies a week in this field.”
Marc Bernegger Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 3:29 20 VC 024: Financing Finch with Marc Bernegger of Orange Growth Capital
Assertion Supported
Global fintech investments tripled between 2013 and 2014
“The general investments in fintech just tripled from 2000 13 to 14.”
Marc Bernegger Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 9:29 20 VC 024: Financing Finch with Marc Bernegger of Orange Growth Capital
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Europe had only about 30 relevant fintech companies in 2010
“In 2010 when I was partner at Next Generation Finance Invest we yeah, looked at Europe, and we had I would say around 30 companies we would have defined as finance two point oh, or fintech, how you call it.”
Marc Bernegger Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 2:54 20 VC 024: Financing Finch with Marc Bernegger of Orange Growth Capital

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC 024: Financing Finch with Marc Bernegger of Orange Growth Capital Apr 2, 2015 16m
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