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Nick Weaver

Co-Founder & CEO, eero · 1 appearance on the record.

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founderexecutiveinvestor@nsweaves ↗eero.com ↗

Nick Weaver co-founded eero in 2014, pioneering whole-home consumer mesh Wi-Fi systems, and has continued to lead the company following its 2019 acquisition by Amazon. Prior to building eero, he worked as an investor at Menlo Ventures and co-founded StartX, the non-profit startup accelerator for Stanford-affiliated entrepreneurs.

12statements → 4claims → 1claims resolved → 4/5average certainty → 2.17/5average debate potential → 4.5/5argument clarity · the sources → 7said about them ↓

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

1 prediction · 3 assertions · 2 opinions · 6 insights · 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 Nick argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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

4.5 / 5 directness 4.8 · coherence 4.9 · precision 4.1 · compression 3.9

redirected or did not address 1 of 15 assessed questions (7%). 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? →

234 words/min while actually speaking · 30.2 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,846 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 1/10
setup questions received 75%

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

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nick Weaver: Consumers are willing to pay $500 for premium home Wi-Fi
“When we started Eero, it was pretty contrarian to say people are going to be willing to spend 500 dollars to have a great home network. You know, today we're really seeing that there's actually a huge portion of the market that is willing to spend just about a…”
Nick Weaver Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 6:36 20VC: Eero's Nick Weaver on Why You Have To Grow One Stage Ahead of Where Your Business Is At and Why If You Want A Great Customer Experience, You Have To Own All The Parts
Insight
Nick Weaver: Delivering a great customer experience requires owning all product components
“If we wanted to be able to react quickly to our customers, most importantly provide a, you know, a Great customer experience that we were in full control of. We just had to own all the parts.”
Nick Weaver Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 9:53 20VC: Eero's Nick Weaver on Why You Have To Grow One Stage Ahead of Where Your Business Is At and Why If You Want A Great Customer Experience, You Have To Own All The Parts
Opinion
Nick Weaver: Home internet connectivity is as essential as water and power
“The connectivity in our homes is now just as important as our running water and our power”
Nick Weaver Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 4:08 20VC: Eero's Nick Weaver on Why You Have To Grow One Stage Ahead of Where Your Business Is At and Why If You Want A Great Customer Experience, You Have To Own All The Parts
Assertion Partly supported
Nick Weaver: Home networking prices were declining prior to Eero's launch
“When you look at the connectivity market, if you look at all the trends, you know, up until we started Euro, you'd actually seen a declining ASP. So people were spending less and less money on their networks, or there are two factors there. One was upgrade cyc…”
Nick Weaver Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 6:05 20VC: Eero's Nick Weaver on Why You Have To Grow One Stage Ahead of Where Your Business Is At and Why If You Want A Great Customer Experience, You Have To Own All The Parts
Insight
Nick Weaver: Hardware pricing requires strong margins to support omni-channel retail
“One thing we've spent a lot of time looking at is what type of margin structure do we need to have to be able to support omni-channel distribution? So that's euro.com, places like Amazon online, and then places like Best Buy and Store. You know, you need to ha…”
Nick Weaver Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 7:19 20VC: Eero's Nick Weaver on Why You Have To Grow One Stage Ahead of Where Your Business Is At and Why If You Want A Great Customer Experience, You Have To Own All The Parts
Insight
Nick Weaver: Physical retail offers product discovery that online platforms cannot replicate
“One of the things it does provide that you don't have in an online experience is discover product discovery. There isn't a great online substitute for, you know, walking down the aisles of, you know, a Best Buy and seeing all the new products, especially in th…”
Nick Weaver Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 8:49 20VC: Eero's Nick Weaver on Why You Have To Grow One Stage Ahead of Where Your Business Is At and Why If You Want A Great Customer Experience, You Have To Own All The Parts
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Eero CEO Nick Weaver spends nearly half his time recruiting
“And, you know, today I still spend close to half of my time in recruiting”
Nick Weaver Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 10:21 20VC: Eero's Nick Weaver on Why You Have To Grow One Stage Ahead of Where Your Business Is At and Why If You Want A Great Customer Experience, You Have To Own All The Parts
Opinion
Nick Weaver: Owning the full stack gives Eero an advantage over Netgear
“Our, you know, our competitive advantage, again, is we own that whole stack. We're able to react really quickly, and we're also pouring all of our focus into one product instead of a, you know, massive portfolio of undifferentiated products.”
Nick Weaver Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 12:41 20VC: Eero's Nick Weaver on Why You Have To Grow One Stage Ahead of Where Your Business Is At and Why If You Want A Great Customer Experience, You Have To Own All The Parts
Insight
Nick Weaver: Hardware complexity creates a significant barrier to entry
“All the complexity that comes with a hardware business ends up being a pretty significant barrier to entry.”
Nick Weaver Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 14:38 20VC: Eero's Nick Weaver on Why You Have To Grow One Stage Ahead of Where Your Business Is At and Why If You Want A Great Customer Experience, You Have To Own All The Parts
Insight
Nick Weaver: Hardware complexity comes from sequencing teams on different cadences
“In, in hardware, what's challenging is you have all these different teams on very different cadences. Ultimately, you know, there's specific milestones, whether it's a new feature launch or a new product launch or a new retailer launch where you have all these…”
Nick Weaver Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 14:55 20VC: Eero's Nick Weaver on Why You Have To Grow One Stage Ahead of Where Your Business Is At and Why If You Want A Great Customer Experience, You Have To Own All The Parts
Insight
Nick Weaver: Hardware startups must scale one stage ahead of business
“You almost have to grow one stage ahead of where the business is.”
Nick Weaver Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 17:04 20VC: Eero's Nick Weaver on Why You Have To Grow One Stage Ahead of Where Your Business Is At and Why If You Want A Great Customer Experience, You Have To Own All The Parts
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Nick Weaver: Home Wi-Fi networks will become the smart home's nervous system
“Really, you can think of the network as becoming the central nervous system of the home. You know, if all of our content's delivered over the internet, if all of our devices are connected to the internet, then, you know, you really have the opportunity here to…”
Nick Weaver Sep 16, 2016 ▶ 20:08 20VC: Eero's Nick Weaver on Why You Have To Grow One Stage Ahead of Where Your Business Is At and Why If You Want A Great Customer Experience, You Have To Own All The Parts

The other half of the tape: Nick Weaver's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 7 times in 3 episodes on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Rob Hayes 3Mike Volpi 2Harry Stebbings 2

Every mention by year

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20VC: Eero's Nick Weaver on Why You Have To Grow One Stage Ahead of Where Your Business Is Sep 16, 2016 14m
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