Tony Conrad
Partner, True Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.
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Tony Conrad is a Partner at True Ventures and the Co-Founder and CEO of About.me. Prior to his current roles, he helped back companies like Automattic, Fitbit, Blue Bottle Coffee, and Peloton.
2 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
3 predictions · 2 assertions · 3 opinions · 4 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 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 Tony 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
Expressed certainty vs assessment result
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
Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →
answered every one of 13 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? →
225 words/min while actually speaking · 8.7 um and uh per 1k words
Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,321 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:
Everything Tony Conrad said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
The other half of the tape: Tony Conrad's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 17 times in 7 episodes on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 11Matt Mullenweg 2Peter Rojas 1Kevin Rose 1John Callaghan 1Jason Calacanis 1
Every mention by year
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
- 20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan
- 20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| 20VC: Tony Conrad on Straddling The Role Of Founder & Investor, What True Founder/Product | Jun 14, 2017 | 16m |