Sarah Cannon

Advisor, Coatue Management · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sarah Cannon is an investor and advisor at Coatue Management, previously serving as a Partner at Index Ventures. She is well known for leading Index's Series B investment in Notion and working with companies such as Slack and Instabase.

5statements → 2claims → 1claims resolved → 3.8/5average certainty → 2.2/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 3said about them ↓

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

1 prediction · 1 assertion · 2 opinions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertion are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is 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 Sarah argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Cannon: Over One Billion People Use Microsoft Office Daily

“There are more than a billion people who use Microsoft Office every day, and if they pay a hundred dollars a year, that's a hundred billion in revenue just for Office, not to mention the potential to expand in a lot of ways that Akshay outlined earlier.”

Sarah Cannon Apr 17, 2020 ▶ 30:21 20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1

none yet certainty 2

100% certainty 3

0% certainty 4

none yet 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? →

227 words/min while actually speaking · 2.2 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Sarah Cannon: 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 2,736 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Sarah Cannon 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 ▾ 1/10

pushed back at the host ▾ 1/10

setup questions received 85%

host pushback: the hardest questions Harry asked, tap to play ▶ 29:10“if you think about fifty million and reported two billion valuation, let's just say, this needs to be like a 40 X to return a two billion dollar fund. Can I ask, how did you think …” ▶ 27:00“Is it challenging to make that mental transition from lean and extremely efficient in terms of spend to actually now having fifty million with the new round and being more aggressi…”

when Sarah pushed back ▶ 34:23“Okay, I'm going to break the rule because there are three.” ▶ 34:31“Sorry, I'm going to sneak in another one and break all your rules, Harry.”

What they said5 What others said3 Episodes1

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

Insight

Cannon: Slack Is Synchronous Flow, Notion Is Asynchronous Stock

“If Slack was the flow of information, Notion was the stock, or if Slack was kind of synchronous communication, then Notion was the place for asynchronous communication.”

Sarah Cannon Apr 17, 2020 ▶ 6:00 20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability

Opinion

Cannon: Notion Is The Third Great Collaboration Platform

“And our view is that notion is really the third great collaboration platform.”

Sarah Cannon Apr 17, 2020 ▶ 12:54 20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability

Opinion

Cannon: Stimulus Should Prioritize Direct Cash Transfers Over Business Loans

“I would do far more for individuals. So I think we've seen a lot on the macro level, interest rates. We have seen loans for small businesses, but I would be far more aggressive on cash transfers to individuals, paid sick leave, And giving people benefits that …”

Sarah Cannon Apr 17, 2020 ▶ 32:20 20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Cannon: Post-COVID Societal Behavior Will Return To 80% Of Pre-Pandemic Baseline

“And my hypothesis is that we will go back to kind of 80% of what we were doing beforehand.”

Sarah Cannon Apr 17, 2020 ▶ 20:59 20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability

Assertion Contradicted

Cannon: Over One Billion People Use Microsoft Office Daily

The other half of the tape: Sarah Cannon's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 1 episode on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 2 Christian Reber 1

Every mention by year

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2021 3 mentions in 1 episode

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came	Apr 17, 2020	12m