Sar Gur

General Partner, CRV · 1 appearance on the record.

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Saar Gur leads seed and Series A investments at CRV, focusing on consumer platforms, marketplaces, and software companies. He is recognized for early investments in companies including DoorDash, Ring, and Patreon, and previously co-founded BrightRoll.

5statements → 0claims → 0claims resolved → 3.6/5average certainty → 2.8/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated →

2 opinions · 2 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. none of them is a claim the record can settle: opinions, insights and disclosures never carry an assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Sar argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

How they sound: speaking style how? →

241 words/min while actually speaking · 2.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Sar Gur: 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 4 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 3,431 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Sar Gur 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 ▾ 2/10

pushed back at the host ▾ 1/10

setup questions received 85%

host pushback: the hardest questions Harry asked, tap to play ▶ 7:25“When's enough enough, and when does the plug have to be pulled?” ▶ 10:17“How do you build relationships with founders in natural and organic ways?”

when Sar pushed back ▶ 2:50“You know, I guess I, I know you've got a lot of folks that you've interviewed that have sort of walked you through their resume, so I thought I would try something a bit different.”

What they said5 Episodes1

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

Insight

Gur: Capital is the single biggest value VCs provide to founders

“Again, having, having worked in companies, I realized that, you know, some, we, I think we add value, but you know, 99% of the work is on the founders, but there's true, the biggest value that we add is the money.”

Sar Gur Mar 27, 2017 ▶ 7:36 20VC: How Investors Can Build Relationships with Founders In Organic, Non-Transactional Ways & How VCs Should Handle Founder Disputes with Saar Gur, General Partner @ CRV

Disclosure

CRV frequently funds portfolio startups rejected by outside investors

“At CRV, we tend to come from believing in the founder's First at the time we invest, then that, you know, that investment is mostly a statement of belief in the team, and so if the team is making progress, I find time and time again, honestly, we throw good mo…”

Sar Gur Mar 27, 2017 ▶ 7:59 20VC: How Investors Can Build Relationships with Founders In Organic, Non-Transactional Ways & How VCs Should Handle Founder Disputes with Saar Gur, General Partner @ CRV

Opinion

Gur: Many early-stage VCs panic when portfolio companies face turbulence

“I find many investors, especially at the early stage, when things are not going well, it's like turbulence in a plane. They're like the, you know, the person freaking out and yelling, like, we're gonna die.”

Sar Gur Mar 27, 2017 ▶ 11:54 20VC: How Investors Can Build Relationships with Founders In Organic, Non-Transactional Ways & How VCs Should Handle Founder Disputes with Saar Gur, General Partner @ CRV

Opinion

Gur: Venture capital needs diversity to overcome male and white bias

“You know, I definitely don't think we need more VCs, but we definitely need a All the great businesses I know out there that aren't getting funded and could have a big impact in the world, and they just don't get funded because of the biases that we have as a …”

Sar Gur Mar 27, 2017 ▶ 19:48 20VC: How Investors Can Build Relationships with Founders In Organic, Non-Transactional Ways & How VCs Should Handle Founder Disputes with Saar Gur, General Partner @ CRV

Insight

Gur: VCs should support struggling founders because downside is capped at 1x

“When you truly just come at this from like, okay, we can only lose one times our money. Let's focus on just, you know, believing in this team to figure it out. I think magic can happen.”

Sar Gur Mar 27, 2017 ▶ 12:21 20VC: How Investors Can Build Relationships with Founders In Organic, Non-Transactional Ways & How VCs Should Handle Founder Disputes with Saar Gur, General Partner @ CRV

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
20VC: How Investors Can Build Relationships with Founders In Organic, Non-Transactional Wa	Mar 27, 2017	15m

Sar Gur

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