Renata Quintini

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Renegade Partners · 1 appearance on the record.

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Renata Quintini is a venture capitalist who backs early-stage software and tech startups. Prior to co-founding Renegade Partners, she was an investor at Felicis Ventures and Lux Capital.

13statements → 4claims → 2claims resolved → 3.62/5average certainty → 2.23/5average debate potential → 4.2/5argument clarity · the sources → 5said about them ↓

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

1 prediction · 3 assertions · 9 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are 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 Renata 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

Quintini: Amazon employs psychologists alongside engineers on the Alexa team

“If you look at what Amazon is doing with Alexa, they have not only for females working on it, but they have also a psychologist working on it.”

Renata Quintini Aug 9, 2017 ▶ 23:21 20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital

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

4.2 / 5 directness 4.4 · coherence 4.6 · precision 3.7 · compression 3.8

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? →

235 words/min while actually speaking · 8.5 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,700 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 ▾ 3/10

pushed back at the host ▾ 1/10

setup questions received 35%

host pushback: the hardest questions Harry asked, tap to play ▶ 11:32“Is it so value add? Is it that tangible proposition, or is it a bit of marketing BS?” ▶ 19:07“does it not go contra the thesis of kind of aggressive growth when VCs invest?”

when Renata pushed back ▶ 28:28“I'm going to twist the question a little bit because I've, you know, the last public announced investment was at Felice's a while back” ▶ 3:10“Yeah, let's dive in, and you know, I'm a fan of the show, and I knew you were going to ask me this, and I mean, the truth for you is I don't have a perfect answer, right?”

What they said13 What others said5 Episodes1

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

Insight

Quintini: VCs shouldn't offer operational value-add just to satisfy LPs

“I think the important thing is you should only do it if it matches your skills and it matches your The relationship and the way you want to work with your founders, right? You shouldn't do it because the industry is doing it. You shouldn't do it because LPs, y…”

Renata Quintini Aug 9, 2017 ▶ 12:26 20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital

Insight

Quintini: Sector-specialized VC funds risk missing tectonic technological shifts

“Number one, if that industry or that sector is out of favor, you have your glory days, but you kind of go away with that. And number two, you know, it's very hard to branch and think differently. And you might miss big tectonic shifts in other areas that becau…”

Renata Quintini Aug 9, 2017 ▶ 13:54 20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital

Insight

Quintini: Startups must plan for massive scale at founding, not dynamically

“Because this growth is so exponential, companies need to plan for that day of a hundred million users or the ten million users at founding, not as they go, because I think there's a lot of trouble that can happen, and there are also a lot of important advantag…”

Renata Quintini Aug 9, 2017 ▶ 15:24 20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital

Insight

Quintini: VCs should evaluate startup pitches with a 'yes mentality' first

“I think for me, the biggest lesson was approach each conversation, each pitch with a yes mentality, right? So thinking about how does reality look like if this company is successful, let's leave the how aside for a minute. Let's get creative and let's stretch …”

Renata Quintini Aug 9, 2017 ▶ 25:03 20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Quintini: Stanford's endowment helped launch the venture capital industry

“The Stanford endowment put venture capital in business in a sense.”

Renata Quintini Aug 9, 2017 ▶ 6:10 20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital

Insight

Quintini: The best VC firms are built to outlast their founding partners

“I think the best firms, they really build something to last beyond themselves, right?”

Renata Quintini Aug 9, 2017 ▶ 8:47 20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital

Insight

Quintini: Lower startup costs enabled the emergence of smaller VC funds

“Cloud, mobile, processing power, all those things that happened in the past, you know, call it 1520 years, they made founders need differently, and I saw what in 2006, seven, eight, people kind of taking that big step back and say, okay, what's changed now, an…”

Renata Quintini Aug 9, 2017 ▶ 10:39 20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital

Insight

Quintini: Connected devices and cloud software must assume eventual hacking

“If you're thinking about this connectivity, the internet of everything, and when we're sending everything to the cloud, there are vulnerabilities everywhere, and we need to operate under the assumption that everything's going to be hacked.”

Renata Quintini Aug 9, 2017 ▶ 18:16 20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital

Assertion Partly supported

Quintini: Juicero cut prices reactively due to backlash, not strategy

“Juicero that, you know, went out, didn't talk product effectiveness aside, they didn't talk about how they were going to bring costs down, and they actually just did it as a reaction of backlash instead of a strategy.”

Renata Quintini Aug 9, 2017 ▶ 21:02 20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital

Insight

Quintini: Ignoring regulation until big enough to lobby is a costly strategy

“The idea of I'm just gonna ignore it or be big enough until I have a voice and then I'll lobby. I think it's a very binary and costly strategy.”

Renata Quintini Aug 9, 2017 ▶ 24:04 20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Quintini: Products competing solely on lower cost are unsustainable

“Things that exist because they're just cheaper for cheap sake and don't make anybody better off. I don't think it's sustainable.”

Renata Quintini Aug 9, 2017 ▶ 26:00 20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital

Insight

Quintini: Winning frontier tech companies build end-to-end products with empathetic design

“What I see happening in Frontier now is a humanization of technology, right? Companies are building end-to-end solutions. Even if you're, you know, if you think about the big successes in Frontier, like a Tesla, Nest, Invest an Oculus or Cruz. They're going al…”

Renata Quintini Aug 9, 2017 ▶ 26:57 20VC: The 7 Requirements For Startup Scaling, Why VCs Must Approach Every Conversation with A Yes Mentality & Why We Will See The Humanisation of Technology with Renata Quintini, Partner @ Lux Capital

Assertion Supported

Quintini: Amazon employs psychologists alongside engineers on the Alexa team

“If you look at what Amazon is doing with Alexa, they have not only for females working on it, but they have also a psychologist working on it.”

The other half of the tape: Renata Quintini's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 5 times in 3 episodes on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 3 Annie Duke 2