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Nick Beim

Partner, Venrock · 1 appearance on the record.

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Nick Beim focuses primarily on early-stage investments across artificial intelligence, enterprise software, fintech, and defense technology. Before joining Venrock, he was a General Partner at Matrix Partners and has backed prominent companies including Dataminr, Altruist, Care.com, and Gilt Groupe.

10statements → 6claims → 4claims resolved → 75%fully supported → 4/5average certainty → 2.2/5average debate potential → 4.5/5argument clarity · the sources → 1said about them ↓

3 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 5 assertions · 2 opinions · 1 insight · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 2 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 Nick 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
Beim: It remains harder for female entrepreneurs to raise VC funding
“In direct answer to your question, I think it still is harder for female entrepreneurs to raise money, and it's sort of an uncomfortable truth in the industry, but I do think it's important to call out”
Nick Beim Aug 19, 2015 ▶ 10:44 20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock

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

4.5 / 5 directness 4.7 · coherence 5 · precision 4.5 · compression 4

answered every one of 12 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? →

237 words/min while actually speaking · 30.4 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,249 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 0/10
setup questions received 65%

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

Assertion Supported
Beim: It remains harder for female entrepreneurs to raise VC funding
“In direct answer to your question, I think it still is harder for female entrepreneurs to raise money, and it's sort of an uncomfortable truth in the industry, but I do think it's important to call out”
Nick Beim Aug 19, 2015 ▶ 10:44 20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock
What-if
Beim: Gilt Groupe could not have succeeded equally on the West Coast
“Having vested in guilt when it was just three people, I can promise you could not have built that company to the same degree of success in the West Coast, because, you know, all of the fashion brands are in New York, all of the great merchandising talent, desi…”
Nick Beim Aug 19, 2015 ▶ 22:24 20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock
Opinion
Nick Beim: New York is by far the most exciting East Coast startup hub
“I think Boston is still great at a number of areas, but I think New York has really become, by a significant margin, the most exciting startup hub on the East Coast.”
Nick Beim Aug 19, 2015 ▶ 3:57 20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock
Assertion Partly supported
Dataminer detected Bin Laden's death 28 minutes before Bloomberg and NYT
“So for example, they had identified the assassination of Bin Laden 28 minutes before Bloomberg in the New York Times.”
Nick Beim Aug 19, 2015 ▶ 7:05 20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock
Assertion Supported
Beim: A $60B pipeline of successful female-founded tech companies exists
“There is a pipeline, and I've actually done some research on this and wrote a blog on it, it's about a sixty billion dollar pipeline of very successful female-founded companies, including Epic Systems, Theranos, Eventbrite, Howes, Guild, many others.”
Nick Beim Aug 19, 2015 ▶ 12:31 20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock
Prediction Held up
Beim: Major financial platforms will offer social impact funds within five years
“And I, my strong bet is that these Types of metrics will evolve and that say in the next five years, many major institutional investors and every major consumer internet platform like Fidelity or personal capital will offer access to some kind of social impact…”
Nick Beim Aug 19, 2015 ▶ 16:29 20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock
Assertion Not checkable as stated
A hedge fund beta customer offered Dataminer a $1B fund partnership
“In fact, one of the customers wanted them to build a fund with them, and, you know, a billion dollar fund and split the And, you know, Dataminer didn't do that, but it was a it was an interesting indication of how powerful the technology was.”
Nick Beim Aug 19, 2015 ▶ 9:55 20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock
Insight
Beim: Venture capitalists invest primarily based on pattern recognition
“Venture capitalists, when you really get down to it, invest primarily on the basis of pattern recognition. They see things working, and they see similar opportunities, and that helps them de-risk their investment.”
Nick Beim Aug 19, 2015 ▶ 12:03 20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock
Assertion Not checkable as stated
E-commerce startup launch costs fell from $30M+ to under $2,000
“If you wanted to start an e-commerce firm, it would cost 30, forty million dollars. You'd need 30 MIT engineers. Today, you can do it over a weekend for less than 2000”
Nick Beim Aug 19, 2015 ▶ 21:05 20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock
Opinion
Beim: Fred Wilson built a top VC firm without West Coast advantages
“I think more recently, I was very impressed with what Fred Wilson had done without the existing platform or assets that, that, you know, some of the, you know, longstanding West Coast firms have had.”
Nick Beim Aug 19, 2015 ▶ 25:07 20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock

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Appearances (1)

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20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock Aug 19, 2015 22m
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