Peter Rojas

SVP of New Products, Mozilla · 1 appearance on the record.

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Peter Rojas co-founded technology publications including Gizmodo, Engadget, and gdgt, and was a founding partner at Betaworks Ventures. He later held product leadership roles at Meta and currently leads the New Products organization at Mozilla Corporation.

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4 assertions · 2 opinions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions 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 Peter 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
Rojas: Weblogs Inc. took investment from only Mark Cuban
“We only had one investor in Weblogs Inc. It was Mark Cuban”
Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 22:21 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Rojas: Fewer than 1,000 people were blogging in 2001
“It seemed at the time blogging was a very, very, very small space. There were maybe, at that point, I think there was probably less than a thousand people blogging.”
Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 4:13 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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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

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

4.1 / 5 directness 4.5 · coherence 4.1 · precision 3.9 · compression 3.2

redirected or did not address 1 of 14 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? →

266 words/min while actually speaking · 40.1 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,459 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 Peter Rojas said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Rojas: Easy Kickstarter crowdfunding hurts hardware startups' operational discipline
“One of the things about when you're building, say, raising money for hardware on Kickstarter, for example, is that You can raise money so easily for if you lay out a compelling product vision that it actually takes away some of the constraints that would force…”
Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 26:59 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rojas: Startup valuations at the seed stage have begun to rationalize
“I think that they've actually started to rationalize a little bit more.”
Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 13:14 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget
Disclosure
Rojas is open to cold emails and reviews every pitch
“I'm actually pretty open to the cold emails for what it's worth. I take a look at everything”
Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 14:23 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget
Disclosure
Rojas: Seed-stage investment decisions are driven by product, not metrics
“So not metrics driven at this stage for me. I think that what I care a lot about is I look at the product.”
Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 17:52 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget
Opinion
Rojas: Venture community is open and friendly, not cutthroat
“I think one of the things that I, I've been pleasantly surprised by is how open and friendly other people in the community, the venture community are... I think there's maybe this stereotype that of feces is very kind of cutthroat and always trying to You know…”
Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 20:20 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget
Assertion Supported
Rojas: Weblogs Inc. took investment from only Mark Cuban
“We only had one investor in Weblogs Inc. It was Mark Cuban”
Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 22:21 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget
Assertion Contradicted
Rojas: Fewer than 1,000 people were blogging in 2001
“It seemed at the time blogging was a very, very, very small space. There were maybe, at that point, I think there was probably less than a thousand people blogging.”
Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 4:13 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget
Assertion Supported
Rojas: Betaworks made 25 to 30 percent of investments on West Coast
“Now, Betaworks has done about 25, maybe 30% of its investments historically have been on the West Coast with the majority of those being pretty much in San Francisco, a handful in Silicon Valley.”
Peter Rojas Oct 14, 2015 ▶ 7:56 20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Co-Founder @ Weblogs & Engadget

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC 079: BETAWORKS WEEK: East vs West Coast Investing with Peter Rojas, EIR @ Betaworks, Oct 14, 2015 21m
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