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Tak Lo

Managing Partner, Komputational Kulture · 1 appearance on the record.

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After directing Techstars London and helping build its accelerator seed program, Tak Lo founded Zeroth.ai, an early Asian accelerator fund dedicated to artificial intelligence. He later launched Komputational Kulture and co-founded The Automated.

9statements → 4claims → 3claims resolved → 33%fully supported → 3.89/5average certainty → 1.78/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated → 3said about them ↓

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

1 prediction · 3 assertions · 2 opinions · 2 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction 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 Tak 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
Techstars startup Knitten took on contracts with Will.i.am to survive
“They took on contracts to try to survive with Will.i.am.”
Tak Lo May 18, 2015 ▶ 18:33 20 VC 037: How To Get a Job at a Startup, Startup Lessons and Brad Feld's 'Open Office Hours' with Tak Lo, Director @ Techstars

How they sound: speaking style how? →

249 words/min while actually speaking · 57.2 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Tak Lo: only 4 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 raw tape exchanges is ≈4.0/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,603 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 ▾ 2/10
pushed back at the host 1/10
setup questions received 65%

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

Insight
Tak Lo: Every entrepreneur needs a co-founder in life or business
“I have a co-founder in life, and that's, she helped me go through it, and I think everyone needs a co-founder, both either in life or in a startup to be able to talk through some of the things, both in the business, but some of the things that are outside of t…”
Tak Lo May 18, 2015 ▶ 5:04 20 VC 037: How To Get a Job at a Startup, Startup Lessons and Brad Feld's 'Open Office Hours' with Tak Lo, Director @ Techstars
Opinion
Tak Lo: Creative, eager hustlers beat experienced candidates when hiring for startups
“From my perspective if I'm hiring somebody and I see someone who's Who's super eager, hustling and especially very, very creative. I think I would take that over the one, someone who actually has a lot of experience.”
Tak Lo May 18, 2015 ▶ 11:10 20 VC 037: How To Get a Job at a Startup, Startup Lessons and Brad Feld's 'Open Office Hours' with Tak Lo, Director @ Techstars
Disclosure
Techstars London backs solo founders including Listable and Osper's Alec Farmer
“I mean, there are some spectacular single founders that, that can do a ton, right? So for example, we backed listable from our last class. They, he was a single founder. Alec Farmer from Osper was also a single founder as well. But they were incredible.”
Tak Lo May 18, 2015 ▶ 5:26 20 VC 037: How To Get a Job at a Startup, Startup Lessons and Brad Feld's 'Open Office Hours' with Tak Lo, Director @ Techstars
Insight
Startup applicants should build launch pages to prove user acquisition skills
“Try to do a launch page and try to get as many people signed up in over a week that you can, and if you can prove traction with the launch page, you can use that as part of your process and say, look, This is what I could do just with any old launch page. This…”
Tak Lo May 18, 2015 ▶ 10:14 20 VC 037: How To Get a Job at a Startup, Startup Lessons and Brad Feld's 'Open Office Hours' with Tak Lo, Director @ Techstars
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Tak Lo: Food supply chain will fundamentally change within 20 to 30 years
“I think the food supply chain is, is going to fundamentally change in the next 2030 years.”
Tak Lo May 18, 2015 ▶ 14:00 20 VC 037: How To Get a Job at a Startup, Startup Lessons and Brad Feld's 'Open Office Hours' with Tak Lo, Director @ Techstars
Assertion Partly supported
Tak Lo: Techstars originated from David Cohen and Brad Feld's open office hours
“Techstars was created actually between David Cohen and Brad Feld's open office hours.”
Tak Lo May 18, 2015 ▶ 15:09 20 VC 037: How To Get a Job at a Startup, Startup Lessons and Brad Feld's 'Open Office Hours' with Tak Lo, Director @ Techstars
Assertion Partly supported
Tak Lo: Knitwear represents 50% to 60% of the apparel market
“Knitting, knitwear is about 60, 50 or 60% of the entire apparel market”
Tak Lo May 18, 2015 ▶ 18:19 20 VC 037: How To Get a Job at a Startup, Startup Lessons and Brad Feld's 'Open Office Hours' with Tak Lo, Director @ Techstars
Assertion Supported
Techstars startup Knitten took on contracts with Will.i.am to survive
“They took on contracts to try to survive with Will.i.am.”
Tak Lo May 18, 2015 ▶ 18:33 20 VC 037: How To Get a Job at a Startup, Startup Lessons and Brad Feld's 'Open Office Hours' with Tak Lo, Director @ Techstars
Opinion
Tak Lo: Christoph Janz of Point Nine Capital is a top must-read VC blogger
“Chris, Christopher Jans from .9 Capital out in Berlin, I think. Awesome, really great early stage founder, understands the B to B space, but just a really good, again, very insightful investor. Those are the four that I read a lot.”
Tak Lo May 18, 2015 ▶ 8:25 20 VC 037: How To Get a Job at a Startup, Startup Lessons and Brad Feld's 'Open Office Hours' with Tak Lo, Director @ Techstars

The other half of the tape: Tak Lo'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 →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC 037: How To Get a Job at a Startup, Startup Lessons and Brad Feld's 'Open Office Hou May 18, 2015 13m
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