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Rebecca Lynn

Managing Director, Canvas Prime · 1 appearance on the record.

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Rebecca Lynn is a Silicon Valley early-stage venture capitalist focusing on fintech, digital health, and SaaS. She co-founded Canvas Prime and previously led early investments in Lending Club, Doximity, and Luminar.

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2 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 assertions · 3 opinions · 5 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 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 Rebecca 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
Lynn: Credit Karma offered free credit reports at zero cost via TransUnion deal
“Credit Karma had a very special deal, you know, free credit report. I worked on that product ages ago with Experian, but they truly had a free credit report and it didn't cost them anything because of their relationship they had with TransUnion.”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 23:40 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Lynn: Fewer Than a Handful of VCs Invested in Healthcare Services in 2009
“Cost incentives were really shifting and there were less than a handful of VCs that were doing anything in healthcare services at that point in time.”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 11:40 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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50% certainty 4
100% 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

How they sound: speaking style how? →

263 words/min while actually speaking · 2.1 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Rebecca Lynn: 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 12 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 5,683 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Rebecca Lynn 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 ▾ 4/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 3/10
setup questions received 75%

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

Opinion
Lynn: Optimal venture capital fund size is $300M to $400M
“No, I think it's a 300 to four hundred million dollar fund, and the reason is, A, you know, when I look at the people I really respect and admire, the Sequoias and the Benchmarks, I mean, that's what they've proven out, and I've added emergence to that mix in …”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 27:08 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
Opinion
Rebecca Lynn: Venture capital is one of few jobs that rewards ADD
“I think it's one of the few jobs in the world that reward ADD.”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 5:57 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
Opinion
Lynn: Distribution drives fintech success far more than risk modeling
“The distribution, I think, is probably more important. It's all about acquisition at the end of the day, and acquisition is incredibly important, and we've seen real innovation in fintech.”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 20:46 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
Assertion Supported
Lynn: Credit Karma offered free credit reports at zero cost via TransUnion deal
“Credit Karma had a very special deal, you know, free credit report. I worked on that product ages ago with Experian, but they truly had a free credit report and it didn't cost them anything because of their relationship they had with TransUnion.”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 23:40 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
Disclosure
Lynn: Passed on early Uber investment pitch from Travis Kalanick
“The biggest miss was Uber and Travis Kalanick was actually in my office with Talking about his angel portfolio years ago, we both had a healthcare IT company. He was in Cario and I was in practice fusion. And I brought him in to talk about, you know, how we ca…”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 25:29 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lynn: Most exited autonomous driving startups had few proof points
“A lot of the companies that have exited thus far have done so on very little proof points.”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 30:27 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
Insight
Rebecca Lynn: Modern venture firms must be thesis-driven to select winners
“And the other thing we know too, is it's incredible that we believe at least is it's incredibly important, especially in this day and age to be very thesis driven because there, you know, there are hundreds of financial services, startups, for example, and how…”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 7:55 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
Insight
Lynn: VC Deal Flow Is Solved, Deal Filtration Is the Real Problem
“And the other thing too, is that there is just so much out there right now. It's insane in terms of the number of deals and, you know, deal flow is, is not at all a problem. Deal filtration is your problem.”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 10:38 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
Assertion Contradicted
Lynn: Fewer Than a Handful of VCs Invested in Healthcare Services in 2009
“Cost incentives were really shifting and there were less than a handful of VCs that were doing anything in healthcare services at that point in time.”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 11:40 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
Insight
Lynn: Effective board members focus on solving a startup's single biggest problem
“Being able to figure out what that one thing is that if you help fix it will make a difference is really that I would think what being a board member is all about.”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 13:44 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
Insight
Lynn: Board members doing operational work harms founders long-term
“And if a board member is actually doing the work, it's not good. It's like if you have a kid and you're doing their homework for them, it's not going to help them at the end of the day, take the test.”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 14:55 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
Insight
Lynn: Early Founders Excel Because They Disliked Working in Large Corporations
“There are people that are really good At starting companies and getting them off the ground. And oftentimes the reason that they're really good at that and the reason they chose that was because they tried to be in a big company and they hated it and they were…”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 16:52 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
Disclosure
Lynn: Canvas invested in Lending Club in Q1 2009 post-Lehman crash
“So lending club, we came in and key one of 2009 after Lehman crashed. And the, I actually sent Renaud my investing memo when I stepped off that board, and it was amazingly on in terms of why this company could be big, and it was because the banks would be asle…”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 21:49 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
Disclosure
Lynn Discloses Unannounced Canvas Investment in Autonomous Driving Startup
“And so my, one of my latest investments was in the autonomous driving space. It's a full autonomous driving sort of system, including the new, a new LIDAR system and the software and everything that bundles with that. And that hasn't been announced yet.”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 9:20 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
Assertion Supported
Lynn: Laplanche Scaled to Public CEO via Executive Coaching and Board Feedback
“He joined YPA, YPO. He got a coach. He was Always, always coming to the board and asking, how am I doing? What's going on? And that I think was what enabled him to scale from a, you know, we're a raw startup to a public company CEO.”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 18:13 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
Assertion Partly supported
Lynn: SVB tracks over 200 non-institutional sub-$150M VC firms in Bay Area
“Is there are, I just talked to Silicon Valley bank and they're tracking over 200 firms only in the Bay area of one hundred and fifty million dollars or more or less like 150 or less without institutional capital. So this is not even counting the number of firm…”
Rebecca Lynn Dec 19, 2016 ▶ 27:28 20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn

The other half of the tape: Rebecca Lynn's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 2 episodes on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World Dec 19, 2016 24m
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