StarZero All shows Try the podcast clipper →

Stefan von Perger

Founder, InnovatorsRoom · 1 appearance on the record.

computed by AI from the episodes · how this works → · full disclaimer →

founderinvestoroperator@vonperger ↗vonperger.com ↗

Stephan von Perger is the founder of InnovatorsRoom and advisory firm QNTF. He previously co-founded Zenjob, worked in business operations at Citymapper, and was an early-stage investor at Wellington Partners after beginning his career at McKinsey.

11statements → 1claims → 0claims resolved → 3.64/5average certainty → 1.73/5average debate potential → 4.4/5argument clarity · the sources →

1 not checkable as stated how the 1 claim stands · each chip opens the sources

1 assertion · 1 opinion · 8 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 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 Stefan argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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

4.4 / 5 directness 4.7 · coherence 4.8 · precision 4 · compression 3.8

redirected or did not address 1 of 21 assessed questions (5%). Watch them ▸

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? →

251 words/min while actually speaking · 53 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,001 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 ▾ 0/10
pushed back at the host 1/10
setup questions received 80%

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

Opinion
Von Perger: Slack's strategy of stockpiling cash is counterintuitive
“So I think stockpiling the way a company like Slack is doing it at the moment seems counterintuitive from my point of view.”
Stefan von Perger May 14, 2015 ▶ 6:31 20 VC 036: The Pitching Process: From Email to Term Sheet with Stephan von Perger @ Wellington Partners
Insight
Von Perger: Founders should raise extra capital when valuation terms are favorable
“If you can raise at decent terms i.e. A good enough valuation without giving away too much equity, it's probably a good idea to raise now, even if it's a little bit more than what you need.”
Stefan von Perger May 14, 2015 ▶ 6:48 20 VC 036: The Pitching Process: From Email to Term Sheet with Stephan von Perger @ Wellington Partners
Insight
Von Perger: Founders should rely on trusted third parties to lobby VCs
“But it's really all about getting getting other people to sort of lobby for you.”
Stefan von Perger May 14, 2015 ▶ 8:27 20 VC 036: The Pitching Process: From Email to Term Sheet with Stephan von Perger @ Wellington Partners
Insight
Von Perger: Realistic market sizing matters more than arbitrarily huge numbers
“So I think being clear and being honest to yourself when you estimate a market is actually more important than showing that it's huge, because it's relatively easy to just make up something really big.”
Stefan von Perger May 14, 2015 ▶ 14:07 20 VC 036: The Pitching Process: From Email to Term Sheet with Stephan von Perger @ Wellington Partners
Disclosure
Von Perger: Impersonal 'Dear Investor' pitch emails receive immediate, brief rejections
“If I've received a sort of a email that says dear investor, then the pass on that will be extremely short.”
Stefan von Perger May 14, 2015 ▶ 16:58 20 VC 036: The Pitching Process: From Email to Term Sheet with Stephan von Perger @ Wellington Partners
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Von Perger: University students now prefer founding startups over banking
“I probably, you know, when I was a student, everybody would have said, I want to be a banker, and I want to be a consultant. And nowadays, a lot of them say, hey, I want to set up a business”
Stefan von Perger May 14, 2015 ▶ 2:11 20 VC 036: The Pitching Process: From Email to Term Sheet with Stephan von Perger @ Wellington Partners
Insight
Von Perger: Prepare 10 to 25 pitch slides but focus on narrative
“When I go to a meeting as a founder, I would probably have something between 10 and 25 pages with me to explain all the important aspects of the business. But Not necessarily look at every slide during the one hour meetings, typically a one hour meeting, but r…”
Stefan von Perger May 14, 2015 ▶ 10:08 20 VC 036: The Pitching Process: From Email to Term Sheet with Stephan von Perger @ Wellington Partners
Insight
Von Perger: VCs evaluate five to ten active deals simultaneously
“While for you, the business is like, The one thing for the investor, it's probably one of five or 10 things they're currently looking at.”
Stefan von Perger May 14, 2015 ▶ 14:57 20 VC 036: The Pitching Process: From Email to Term Sheet with Stephan von Perger @ Wellington Partners
Insight
Von Perger: Startup pitch follow-ups should highlight fresh traction milestones
“I would include success stories. So by the way, we've signed, you know three more clients and we've had a real good new hire. To make it really worth the while for the investor to think, ah, you know, even if I wasn't so excited the first time sort of to get r…”
Stefan von Perger May 14, 2015 ▶ 15:17 20 VC 036: The Pitching Process: From Email to Term Sheet with Stephan von Perger @ Wellington Partners
Insight
Von Perger: Founders must follow up on every VC introduction offer
“A lot of investors will talk about all the introductions they can make. And I always recommend people to really follow up on that and, you know, not let any offer for an introduction to a potential customer or potential portfolio company, et cetera, like slip …”
Stefan von Perger May 14, 2015 ▶ 11:05 20 VC 036: The Pitching Process: From Email to Term Sheet with Stephan von Perger @ Wellington Partners
Insight
Von Perger: Answering initial VC feedback demonstrates founder coachability
“Because when you go for that second meeting or second call and you can, Show that you've listened to the questions and the feedback in the first interaction and kind of, you know, bring good answers to those questions. I think that's a really powerful way of s…”
Stefan von Perger May 14, 2015 ▶ 11:50 20 VC 036: The Pitching Process: From Email to Term Sheet with Stephan von Perger @ Wellington Partners

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC 036: The Pitching Process: From Email to Term Sheet with Stephan von Perger @ Wellin May 14, 2015 14m
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 1,200 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.

Try the podcast clipper Learn more