Mutaz Qubbaj

Chief Revenue Officer, SUBSCRIBE · 1 appearance on the record.

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Mutaz Qubbaj is the founder and former CEO of Squirrel, a Barclays Techstars London-backed financial wellbeing platform designed to help employees budget and manage debt. He previously held trading and strategy roles at Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, and PIMCO, and currently serves as Chief Revenue Officer at SUBSCRIBE.

4statements → 2claims → 2claims resolved → 4.25/5average certainty → 1.5/5average debate potential → 4.3/5argument clarity · the sources →

2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted how the 2 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 assertions · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are 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 Mutaz 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
Qubbaj: UK payday loans sold at near 6,000% APR using puppets
“Payday loans being sold to people at, you know, close to 6000% APR using puppets”
Mutaz Qubbaj Jul 24, 2015 ▶ 3:30 Founding WIRED 2014's Winner, with Mutaz Qubbaj, Founder @ Squirrel

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

4.3 / 5 directness 4.8 · coherence 4.5 · precision 4.1 · compression 3.5

redirected or did not address 1 of 13 assessed questions (8%). Watch them ▸

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? →

229 words/min while actually speaking · 23.8 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,231 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 →

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

Assertion Supported
Qubbaj: UK payday loans sold at near 6,000% APR using puppets
“Payday loans being sold to people at, you know, close to 6000% APR using puppets”
Mutaz Qubbaj Jul 24, 2015 ▶ 3:30 Founding WIRED 2014's Winner, with Mutaz Qubbaj, Founder @ Squirrel
Insight
Qubbaj: Consider entrepreneurship when your job degrades into mere tasks
“If your past job goes from becoming a job to a series of tasks, and you can't align your brand of happiness with the happiness that is tied to major success in your current role, just start taking a look at the entrepreneurial side.”
Mutaz Qubbaj Jul 24, 2015 ▶ 19:02 Founding WIRED 2014's Winner, with Mutaz Qubbaj, Founder @ Squirrel
Assertion Supported
Qubbaj: UK payday loan market nears £4 billion valuation
“The payday loan market's going to close to four billion pounds in total”
Mutaz Qubbaj Jul 24, 2015 ▶ 3:22 Founding WIRED 2014's Winner, with Mutaz Qubbaj, Founder @ Squirrel
Disclosure
Squirrel raised over £1.1 million in funding and Innovate UK grants
“So to date, we've actually raised upwards of 1.1 million pounds through a combination of Angels funds, as well as more recently, ah, receiving an Innovate UK smart fund, ah, grant.”
Mutaz Qubbaj Jul 24, 2015 ▶ 17:12 Founding WIRED 2014's Winner, with Mutaz Qubbaj, Founder @ Squirrel

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Founding WIRED 2014's Winner, with Mutaz Qubbaj, Founder @ Squirrel Jul 24, 2015 16m
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