Scott Taylor

Co-founder & CEO, Memco · 1 appearance on the record.

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Scott Taylor is the co-founder and CEO of Memco, developing shared memory for AI agents. He previously served as Chief Product Officer at Livedrive and was co-founder and CEO of miDrive.

9statements → 4claims → 1claims resolved → 3.78/5average certainty → 1.67/5average debate potential → 4.4/5argument clarity · the sources →

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

4 assertions · 4 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 2 are not yet assessed, 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 Scott 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
Taylor: SEIS and EIS tax incentives are boosting UK angel investment
“I think that's something that Silicon Valley had an upper hand in us Over the past few years, because of sort of all of the early employees of Google, Yahoo, all of those guys who cashed out they went back and give back angel investments, and it's something we…”
Scott Taylor May 28, 2015 ▶ 11:29 20 VC 040: The Required Qualities To Be A Great Founder, with Scott Taylor, CEO @ miDrive

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

4.4 / 5 directness 5 · coherence 4.6 · precision 4.1 · compression 3.9

answered every one of 18 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? →

269 words/min while actually speaking · 53.6 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,984 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 →

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

Insight
Taylor: Founders should seek impartial mentors, not board members
“Not using sort of your board as anyone on your board as a mentor, using somebody that can take a very impartial view and an honest truth, and you can sort of deep dive into your own psychology.”
Scott Taylor May 28, 2015 ▶ 4:18 20 VC 040: The Required Qualities To Be A Great Founder, with Scott Taylor, CEO @ miDrive
Insight
Taylor: Industry leaders will reply to short, specific cold emails
“And as long as they're short, succinct, and to the point, and you're asking a real valid question, then most of the time these guys love giving advice.”
Scott Taylor May 28, 2015 ▶ 6:04 20 VC 040: The Required Qualities To Be A Great Founder, with Scott Taylor, CEO @ miDrive
Insight
Taylor: Recruiting domain experts who take pay cuts de-risks startups
“Was the finder able to pull in some high profile domain experts? So again, I started up a medical startup. Was I able to bring in somebody that is insanely smart in that field and get them to take a pay cut for equity? All of those things are sort of signs tha…”
Scott Taylor May 28, 2015 ▶ 7:55 20 VC 040: The Required Qualities To Be A Great Founder, with Scott Taylor, CEO @ miDrive
Assertion Supported
Taylor: SEIS and EIS tax incentives are boosting UK angel investment
“I think that's something that Silicon Valley had an upper hand in us Over the past few years, because of sort of all of the early employees of Google, Yahoo, all of those guys who cashed out they went back and give back angel investments, and it's something we…”
Scott Taylor May 28, 2015 ▶ 11:29 20 VC 040: The Required Qualities To Be A Great Founder, with Scott Taylor, CEO @ miDrive
Insight
Taylor: Friends and family capital must be treated as total write-offs
“You just have to stress to the friends and family or only tech funds from those people that are prepared to take it as a complete write-off.”
Scott Taylor May 28, 2015 ▶ 12:44 20 VC 040: The Required Qualities To Be A Great Founder, with Scott Taylor, CEO @ miDrive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Taylor: Virgin StartUp funded just 3% of 10,000 applications in 2014
“In 2014, there was 10,000 applications, and about three of, three percent of those will successfully get loans dispersed”
Scott Taylor May 28, 2015 ▶ 9:44 20 VC 040: The Required Qualities To Be A Great Founder, with Scott Taylor, CEO @ miDrive
Disclosure
Taylor: Invested in stealth food delivery startup competing with Just Eat
“It's still in stealth, but it's a company that operates in the same space as Just Eat. And again, I invested it because of the team and actually the unit economics of food takeaway and delivery startups are pretty compelling.”
Scott Taylor May 28, 2015 ▶ 17:15 20 VC 040: The Required Qualities To Be A Great Founder, with Scott Taylor, CEO @ miDrive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Taylor: Started and sold 10 to 12 startups between ages 15 and 21
“I think there, I think it was maybe 10, 10 or 12 online startups that, that had started and sold between the age of 15 and sort of 21.”
Scott Taylor May 28, 2015 ▶ 2:03 20 VC 040: The Required Qualities To Be A Great Founder, with Scott Taylor, CEO @ miDrive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Taylor: 22% of Virgin StartUp applicants are in manufacturing and retail
“22% of the applicants are within the manufacturing and retail space, so it's not specifically just online and tech.”
Scott Taylor May 28, 2015 ▶ 10:40 20 VC 040: The Required Qualities To Be A Great Founder, with Scott Taylor, CEO @ miDrive

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC 040: The Required Qualities To Be A Great Founder, with Scott Taylor, CEO @ miDrive May 28, 2015 13m
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