Ted Blosser

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

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Ted Blosser is the co-founder and CEO of WorkRamp, an enterprise learning and enablement platform. Prior to founding WorkRamp through Y Combinator, he spent nearly five years working in sales and product management at Box.

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

2 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed. 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 Ted 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

Blosser: First startup combining mobile, social, and local was a total failure

“In my mid-twenties, I actually founded my first startup, and it was a huge failure. Pretty much Took everything that was hot at the time, whether it be mobile, social, and local, and try to combine it all into one startup, and it failed pretty, pretty miserabl…”

Ted Blosser Jan 27, 2017 ▶ 2:45 20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp

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

4.4 / 5 directness 4.5 · coherence 4.8 · precision 4.2 · compression 3.9

answered every one of 20 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? →

236 words/min while actually speaking · 34.6 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,611 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 ▾ 1/10

pushed back at the host 2/10

setup questions received 75%

host pushback: the hardest questions Harry asked, tap to play ▶ 12:11“Ted, that's a very, um, politician's answer. 18 or 24 months, we went for the 18 to 24 months. Which one was it, Ted? I mean.” ▶ 11:51“Runway-wise, how did you break down the funding? Did you go for an eighteen-month, or because of the excess demand, did you decide for an extended twenty-four-month runway?”

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

Opinion

Blosser: Salesforce succeeds due to brand power rather than product quality

“If you look at Salesforce.com and they don't have the best product in the world, but they have the best brand.”

Ted Blosser Jan 27, 2017 ▶ 6:57 20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp

Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Blosser: YC partner Paul Buchheit told 100 batch startups none had PMF

“I remember when we were leaving YC, Paul Buchite sat the entire batch down, so all hundred companies or so, and he told us on our last day, he said, look, none of you guys are at product market fit, and we were looking around the room, and it was, we had some …”

Ted Blosser Jan 27, 2017 ▶ 13:20 20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp

Insight

Ted Blosser: Founders should build investor teams like sports rosters, not marriages

“Don't just look at it as a spouse you would look for, but really look at it as a team you're building and think about the skill set that each VC brings to the table.”

Ted Blosser Jan 27, 2017 ▶ 8:30 20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp

Disclosure

WorkRamp chose Initialized to apply consumer growth tactics to enterprise software

“We went to them because not because they were hardcore enterprise seed investors, but really because they understood consumer markets extremely well. And we wanted to apply those same growth strategies to the enterprise market”

Ted Blosser Jan 27, 2017 ▶ 9:04 20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp

Disclosure

Blosser: WorkRamp capped seed round at $1.8M to enforce operational discipline

“And so and we actually did cap it. I think we actually, we raised about 1.8 million and we didn't want to raise much more past that. I mean, we had the opportunity to, but we ended up turning down money towards the end, really because we thought that was enoug…”

Ted Blosser Jan 27, 2017 ▶ 12:29 20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp

Insight

Ted Blosser: Investors hyper-focused on early CAC and LTV lack long-term vision

“You can tell that even with small things like how they do due diligence, you see the ones that are focusing It's extremely on the, just the small metrics early on, like LTV or customer acquisition costs. They're not really looking at the long game.”

Ted Blosser Jan 27, 2017 ▶ 19:23 20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp

Disclosure

Blosser: Initialized hired Kim-Mai Cutler to coach portfolio enterprise branding

“I know Gary Tan and Alexis Ohanian from our investors at Initialize, they've been very, very good in helping us build our brand. They brought on Kim Mai Cutler onto their team from TechCrunch, and she's been extremely helpful in actually coaching us through ho…”

Ted Blosser Jan 27, 2017 ▶ 7:29 20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp

Assertion Supported

Blosser: First startup combining mobile, social, and local was a total failure

The other half of the tape: Ted Blosser's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 5 times in 2 episodes on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Lori Jiménez 4 Harry Stebbings 1