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Patricia Nakache

General Partner, Trinity Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Patricia Nakache is a General Partner at Trinity Ventures, focusing on consumer and business online services. Her past investments include Care.com, LoopNet, PayScale, and Uptake.

11statements → 4claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 3.82/5average certainty → 2.18/5average debate potential → 4.3/5argument clarity · the sources → 2said about them ↓

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

1 prediction · 3 assertions · 1 opinion · 5 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 1 names 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 Patricia 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

Prediction Held up
Nakache predicts a shakeout in non-essential on-demand economy startups
“I also think there's going to be a shakeout in the on-demand economy. Because there's been, well, I do, you know, I'm very, I'm bullish there are a bunch of services that are going to thrive, but I think there have been a lot of services that have been funded …”
Patricia Nakache Oct 19, 2015 ▶ 24:41 20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ Trinity Ventures

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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75% 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? →

4.3 / 5 directness 4.7 · coherence 4.7 · precision 4.1 · compression 3.6

answered every one of 18 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? →

232 words/min while actually speaking · 51.3 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,640 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 ▾ 2/10
pushed back at the host 1/10
setup questions received 53%

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

Prediction Held up
Nakache predicts a shakeout in non-essential on-demand economy startups
“I also think there's going to be a shakeout in the on-demand economy. Because there's been, well, I do, you know, I'm very, I'm bullish there are a bunch of services that are going to thrive, but I think there have been a lot of services that have been funded …”
Patricia Nakache Oct 19, 2015 ▶ 24:41 20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ Trinity Ventures
Insight
Nakache: Pattern recognition in VC partner hiring perpetuates gender imbalance
“The second P is, is what I call pattern recognition, and that's just the notice, a notion, and it applies to investment decisions too, but it's the notion that decisions are made based on recognizing attributes that have worked for you in the past or been succ…”
Patricia Nakache Oct 19, 2015 ▶ 8:25 20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ Trinity Ventures
Insight
Nakache: Market retrenchment disproportionately harms minorities in venture capital
“I think there was a, when I joined it was higher, I believe, because we were in the middle of the dot-com boom, and in growth times, that's when opportunity exists, actually, I think, For minorities to make progress. I think in retrenchment, times of retrenchm…”
Patricia Nakache Oct 19, 2015 ▶ 9:24 20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ Trinity Ventures
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nakache: The era of the generalist venture capitalist is largely over
“The days of sort of the generalist venture capitalist is, is I think mostly gone exists in some rare pockets, but, you know, I think when I, and that's been a transition that's happened during the time I've been in venture capital I think, you know, it wasn't …”
Patricia Nakache Oct 19, 2015 ▶ 19:02 20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ Trinity Ventures
Insight
Nakache: Culture fit is critical in small venture capital partnerships
“In small partnerships, that's really important. You have to, there's not a big company. There's no place to go hide if you don't get along with somebody. There's no kind of other division you can transfer to or other group you can transfer to. You have to make…”
Patricia Nakache Oct 19, 2015 ▶ 5:36 20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ Trinity Ventures
Opinion
Nakache saw huge gap between Craigslist and expensive nanny agencies
“Felt to me like there was a big opportunity for service that provided more vetting than a Craigslist, but was way less expensive than an agency.”
Patricia Nakache Oct 19, 2015 ▶ 12:36 20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ Trinity Ventures
Insight
Nakache: Ramping burn rate before product-market fit wastes capital
“If the company has not yet reached a stage where there's product market fit and yet the burn rate has been ramped up, To me, that's a yellow flag, and it's interesting, you know, it's one I'm thinking about a lot today in the context of the current environment…”
Patricia Nakache Oct 19, 2015 ▶ 14:10 20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ Trinity Ventures
Insight
Nakache: Raising too much early capital forces dangerous premature growth spending
“If you raise, you know, say, say you're, you know, you just launched your product, and you have, you know, four or five months of data, and it all looks positive, but it's all limited and you raise a lot of money, The expectations for growth are, from the, fro…”
Patricia Nakache Oct 19, 2015 ▶ 15:25 20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ Trinity Ventures
Assertion Partly supported
Nakache: US hair extensions market exceeds $5 billion and is growing
“First of all, hair extensions is a, Is, is a big market that, you know, most people are pretty unaware of, but it's a, it's, you know, it's over a five billion dollar market in the US. It's growing.”
Patricia Nakache Oct 19, 2015 ▶ 27:57 20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ Trinity Ventures
Assertion Supported
Nakache: Female-led micro VC funds are driving female representation in VC
“There've been a number of micro VC funds that have been started by women GPs. And you know, like Teresa Gao and Jennifer Vaughn said started Aspect Ventures. Alie Lee started Cowboy Ventures. I mean, there's actually a, you know, a handful of them. And that's …”
Patricia Nakache Oct 19, 2015 ▶ 10:19 20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ Trinity Ventures
Disclosure
Nakache spent 3 months doing joint diligence before backing Ruby Ribbon
“Before I invest in her company, you know, she and I did due diligence on the concept of Ruby Ribbon together for about a three-month period”
Patricia Nakache Oct 19, 2015 ▶ 13:07 20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ Trinity Ventures

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Appearances (1)

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20 VC 080: How VCs Can Differentiate Themselves with Patricia Nakache, General Partner @ T Oct 19, 2015 24m
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