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Ryan Holmes

Founder & CEO, Hootsuite · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ryan Holmes founded the social media management platform Hootsuite in 2008 and co-founded the seed-stage fund LOI Venture alongside the youth charity League of Innovators. He is also the author of social media strategy books, including The $4 Billion Tweet and Saving Social.

14statements → 6claims → 0claims resolved → 3.86/5average certainty → 1.86/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated → 2said about them ↓

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1 prediction · 5 assertions · 2 opinions · 5 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 6 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 Ryan argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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235 words/min while actually speaking · 4.7 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Ryan Holmes: 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 10 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.0/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.

Measured by listening to 3,413 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Ryan Holmes 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 →

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Across 1 rated episode:

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setup questions received 85%

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

Opinion
Ryan Holmes Was Extremely Bullish on Snapchat's 10 Billion Daily Views
“Oh man, no, I, I'm hugely bullish on Snapchat. Ten billion views daily. Facebook's at eight billion. Huge audience. Very engaged audience. Recently, this, yesterday, memories coming out. That all of a sudden is, is really interesting seeing your archive of Sna…”
Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 21:33 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!
Insight
Rapid Product Shifts Are Irresponsible for Mature Software Companies
“As you grow user base, we have an accountability for dependability, reliability to them. We have an accountability you know, we have effectively Provided our customers with a product and a workflow that they're familiar with, and so rapid shifts in product, tu…”
Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 15:43 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!
Insight
Operating a Small Business Serves as a Mini MBA
“Working as a restaurateur or a small business owner in general, you know, I talk about small businesses are fantastic because ultimately full accountability rolls up to you, one person. You have to Ultimately develop a skill set. You have to be good at a lot o…”
Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 4:51 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Alphabet's Cellular Structure Allows Google to Effectively Expand in Multiple Directions
“And so that cellular division, I believe, is a very smart one. I think then it allows the leaders to create a more tightly aligned vision for a smaller group of people, and I think that's a very smart move on behalf of Google. I think it's going to allow them …”
Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 9:56 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!
Insight
Companies Should Cap Teams at 100 People Due to Cognitive Limits
“The human brain kind of on its own, unaided with Rolodexes and other stuff, on average, kind of starts, stops being effective around, you know, over a hundred relationships, and so, you know, I think that's a way of thinking about how we are maybe naturally wi…”
Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 10:28 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hootsuite Policy Allows Employees to Walk Out of Unproductive Meetings
“You know, one of the things we have is a policy of, you know, if you don't feel like you're going to be adding value or the meeting isn't useful for you just excuse yourself. It's not, you know, a mandatory have to sit in and, you know, unless you're contribut…”
Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 11:43 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!
Insight
Meetings Without Clear Documented Outcomes Are a Waste of Time
“Because if you don't have outcomes out of a meeting, the whole meeting really, I think is very often wasn't worth value.”
Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 12:13 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!
Insight
Feature Wars Degrade Software Usability When Customers Primarily Prefer Simplicity
“I think that's something that often gets, gets missed as people get into a feature war in terms of adding the next, next, next, next feature. And, you know, ultimately you have something that looks like, do you just stapled on a bunch of brochures and maybe yo…”
Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 14:32 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!
Opinion
Mark Suster Is the Best VC at Social Media Branding
“You know who I always love is Mark Schuster. He's like, so when we first, first started getting going in, in Twitter, 2008, nine, he was crushing it then. He's now crushing it on Snapchat and doing really interesting stuff.”
Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 20:04 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hootsuite Achieved Immediate Viral Product-Market Fit at 2008 Launch
“And what we saw, you know, pretty much right out of the gates was a very viral uptake in the product usage. We had great product market fit.”
Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 3:51 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hootsuite Bootstrapped Its First Year Using Seven Digital Agency Employees
“We worked for the first year. It was bootstrapped within the agency and classic, you know, entrepreneurial story. We had seven people from a 21 person team working on a zero revenue product.”
Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 4:08 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!
Disclosure
Hootsuite Created an Internal Startup for Cardboard Standing Desks
“I recently launched a little startup within Hootsuite that was to scratch my own back problem that I had, which was actually around a back injury a few years ago, and it was a simple stand-up The idea came out of just my daily work habits, and it's a cardboard…”
Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 8:22 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vancouver Lacked VC Sophistication in SaaS and Social Media in 2008
“There were not, and was not a level of sophistication in Vancouver around social media, let alone cloud and SaaS.”
Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 18:29 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hootsuite Reached Cashflow Neutrality in One Year on $1.9M in Capital
“We used our initial 1.9 million to get to cashflow neutral. In, in about a year.”
Ryan Holmes Oct 28, 2016 ▶ 19:31 20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownership Culture & Lessons From Running A Pizzeria!

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20VC: Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes on Optimising Productivity in Meetings, Creating An Ownershi Oct 28, 2016 16m
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