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Patrick Morley

Senior Advisor, Brighton Park Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Patrick Morley led cybersecurity company Carbon Black as President and CEO, taking it through an IPO in 2018 and subsequent acquisition by VMware. He later served as Senior Vice President and General Manager at VMware before becoming a Senior Advisor at Brighton Park Capital.

14statements → 3claims → 1claims resolved → 4.07/5average certainty → 1.86/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 2said about them ↓

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

3 assertions · 1 opinion · 9 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is 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 Patrick argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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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

How they sound: speaking style how? →

234 words/min while actually speaking · 3 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Patrick Morley: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 22 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.5/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.

Measured by listening to 3,384 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Patrick Morley is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. 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 0/10
setup questions received 85%

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

Insight
Morley: Impatient VC board members ruin companies by forcing short-term decisions
“What I have seen is that in many cases, when an investor is not as mature or lacks patience, they can really screw up an opportunity because they end up Driving short-term decisions that will stop a company from having a long-term opportunity.”
Patrick Morley Oct 12, 2018 ▶ 20:23 20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black
Opinion
Morley: Poor market timing kills more startups than a lack of capital
“Absolutely. I would agree a hundred percent with that statement.”
Patrick Morley Oct 12, 2018 ▶ 14:06 20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black
Insight
Morley: West Coast tech talent density vastly outpaces Boston's diversified talent pool
“If you take 10 A players, In Boston, out of those 10 A players, maybe two of them will be in tech, and the other eight will be in financial services, or in pharma, or biotech, or blah, blah, blah. And on the West Coast, you know, out of the 10 A players, nine …”
Patrick Morley Oct 12, 2018 ▶ 22:05 20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black
Insight
Morley: A CEO's core duties are scaling teams, strategy, and communication
“There's three core characteristics, three core elements for the CEO. I certainly think one of them is about the people and making sure that you continue to scale the team around you. Absolutely. And by the way, that gets hard because you have to do it quite of…”
Patrick Morley Oct 12, 2018 ▶ 6:49 20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black
Insight
Morley: Empowering department leaders with true ownership encourages organizational risk-taking
“The desire to allow people to run your own business, in my belief, their own department, allows people to take more risks. Because if I feel like I truly am empowered to run my business within the constraints of what we're trying to do as a company, within tha…”
Patrick Morley Oct 12, 2018 ▶ 7:43 20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black
Insight
Morley: Executives who become reactive rather than proactive must be replaced
“When you have people, team members who are reacting as opposed to being proactive about what's coming, It becomes very obvious that you're going to have to make a decision to bring someone else in.”
Patrick Morley Oct 12, 2018 ▶ 10:10 20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black
Insight
Morley: Leaders often fail by making critical decisions without driving organizational alignment
“And that's a big place I see people fail. They'll make critical decisions, and then on the communication side and on the alignment side, they don't do a great job of aligning everyone.”
Patrick Morley Oct 12, 2018 ▶ 12:20 20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Morley: Google's 2010 hack announcement triggered a massive shift in cybersecurity demand
“In 2010, there was a market change when Google announced that they had been hacked.”
Patrick Morley Oct 12, 2018 ▶ 15:54 20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black
Insight
Morley: Going public forces difficult restrictions on internal transparency and employee communication
“I think one of the challenges, and many companies have spoken to this, one of the challenges of being a public company is the way that you communicate and the transparency that you exhibit inside the company from a comm standpoint has to change, and it's harde…”
Patrick Morley Oct 12, 2018 ▶ 17:34 20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black
Insight
Morley: Founders should evaluate and treat board members like executive team hires
“First off, I think every founder, every CEO should look at their board as an extension of their team. They shouldn't think of them as separate. And by an extension of the team, I mean the same characteristics that you're looking for with regards to who you wou…”
Patrick Morley Oct 12, 2018 ▶ 18:29 20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black
Disclosure
Morley: Carbon Black cycled through three distinct executive teams while scaling
“If you look over the years, I've effectively had three senior teams around me that I've had the opportunity to work with.”
Patrick Morley Oct 12, 2018 ▶ 10:44 20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black
Insight
Morley: Educating public equity investors consumes significant time for post-IPO executives
“Going out and helping public equity buyers understand who we are as a company, and the amount of time that that requires for myself and others at the senior level in the company.”
Patrick Morley Oct 12, 2018 ▶ 18:02 20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black
Assertion Partly supported
Morley has taken five startup teams public over his 25-year career
“Well, when you look at building a company, my experience, I've spent the last 25 plus years helping to build and scale a variety of different startups and have been fortunate enough to be part of five teams that have brought companies public, including Carbon …”
Patrick Morley Oct 12, 2018 ▶ 4:23 20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Morley speaks at every new employee orientation to explain Carbon Black's mission
“We do new employee orientation for every single and I speak at every single new employee orientation. I shake every single new employee's hand and tell them why we're here and what we're all about and what we're trying to achieve.”
Patrick Morley Oct 12, 2018 ▶ 12:43 20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timing & How To Balance Between Speed and Inspection When It Comes To Decision-Making with Patrick Morley, CEO @ Carbon Black

The other half of the tape: Patrick Morley's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 2 times in 1 episode on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

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20VC: 7 Key Themes To Building A Great Company To IPO, The Right Way To Assess Market Timi Oct 12, 2018 15m
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