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Sahil Bloom

Founding Partner, SRB Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sahil Bloom is the Founding Partner at SRB Ventures. He previously spent seven years managing over $3.5 billion in capital and has been an active angel investor in over 30 companies.

8statements → 4claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 4.12/5average certainty → 1.38/5average debate potential → 4.5/5argument clarity · the sources → 3said about them ↓

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

2 predictions · 2 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 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 Sahil 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
Sahil Bloom started posting on Twitter in May 2020
“It's actually twenty-twenty. I didn't start sharing things on Twitter until May of twenty-twenty. I had like a few hundred followers at the time”
Sahil Bloom Mar 1, 2022 ▶ 0:47 How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
50% certainty 3
100% 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

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

4.5 / 5 directness 4.9 · coherence 4.8 · precision 4.3 · compression 3.9

answered every one of 36 assessed questions directly

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? →

273 words/min while actually speaking · 24 um and uh per 1k words · 9.2 false starts per 1k · 28.4% of pauses land inside a clause

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 7,329 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 ▾ 2/10
setup questions received 75%

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

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sahil Bloom predicts mid-sized venture funds will face severe survival pressure
“The middle of this landscape that exists here is going to be challenged. And I think what it leads to is maybe not the death of the middle. It's going to be a survival of the fittest though, where they have to, and will be forced to figure out what their true …”
Sahil Bloom Mar 1, 2022 ▶ 13:16 How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Disclosure
Sahil Bloom reveals Apple CEO Tim Cook is a financial backer
“He's become an amazing mentor. He's a backer of mine has taught me a lot”
Sahil Bloom Mar 1, 2022 ▶ 24:46 How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Disclosure
Sahil Bloom announces his debut $10 million fund, SRB Ventures
“I'll be announcing my first venture fund. It's called SRB Ventures. SRB are my initials, Sahil Ready Bloom, a ten million dollar debut fund anchored by some amazing people and with participation from a bunch of people that I really really, really admire and ha…”
Sahil Bloom Mar 1, 2022 ▶ 5:45 How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Sahil Bloom calls Andreessen Horowitz the benchmark for venture media strategy
“I think Andreessen is probably the best example of a firm who has done this well. Well, you know, they created Future, which is almost like a standalone media entity, and they're trying to really, think thoughtfully about having that as a real media platform”
Sahil Bloom Mar 1, 2022 ▶ 15:07 How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Sahil Bloom started posting on Twitter in May 2020
“It's actually twenty-twenty. I didn't start sharing things on Twitter until May of twenty-twenty. I had like a few hundred followers at the time”
Sahil Bloom Mar 1, 2022 ▶ 0:47 How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Partly supported
Sahil Bloom gained his second 100K Twitter followers in just 45 days
“The first 100,000 took, I don't know, eight, nine months. And then I think I've grown a 100,000 in the last. 45 days or 50 days.”
Sahil Bloom Mar 1, 2022 ▶ 4:46 How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Held up
SRB Ventures will write checks between $50,000 and $250,000
“50 will be the smallest I would do. I, you know, I think everything will probably fall into the 50 to two 50 range with, you know, two 50 coming at probably like series B type rounds and smaller checks into earlier higher risk things. But I think 50 will end u…”
Sahil Bloom Mar 1, 2022 ▶ 7:57 How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Disclosure
SRB Ventures made an early investment in short-term rental platform Wander
“One of the companies, one of the first investments out of the fund is this business wander. QED and red point were leading the series a very cool short-term rental vertically integrated platform.”
Sahil Bloom Mar 1, 2022 ▶ 10:01 How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 3

Every mention by year

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
How I Built a Twitter Audience of 500K+ in 18 Months | Sahil Bloom Full Interview · 20VC w Mar 1, 2022 32m
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