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Victoria Treyger

Senior Venture Partner, Felicis · 1 appearance on the record.

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At Felicis, Victoria Treyger focuses on early-stage investments across AI, fintech, enterprise software, and digital health. Prior to venture capital, she served as Chief Revenue Officer at Kabbage and Chief Marketing Officer at RingCentral.

10statements → 5claims → 4claims resolved → 0%fully supported → 4.2/5average certainty → 1.6/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 4said about them ↓

0 supported 3 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 4 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction 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 Victoria argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Independent bookstores grew 10% annually for five consecutive years
“For the last five years, independent bookstores have been growing by about 10% year over year”
Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 24:07 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven

How they sound: speaking style how? →

159 words/min while actually speaking · 0.8 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Victoria Treyger: no 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 24 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.5/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.

Measured by listening to 3,891 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Victoria Treyger is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. 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 1/10
setup questions received 80%

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

Opinion
VCs should act as personal friends supporting founders' whole lives
“In today's world, the reality is that your business and your personal lives blend completely into just one person, and so I do think that In your role as investor slash advisor, you are a friend to the founder, and your job is to support the entire person with…”
Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 9:54 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven
Insight
Startup board meetings should be capped at three to four hours
“I think that you want to limit the board meeting time itself Not the committee meetings, but the board to three to four hours. After that, I have not found the board meetings to be productive.”
Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 14:51 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven
Insight
Board meetings should focus on strategy, not performance metric updates
“The board meetings should not be used for performance dashboards. It is your role as a board member to work with the founders in advance to set up the metrics in dashboards that you want to track.”
Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 15:06 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven
Insight
Series B is the optimal stage to add independent board members
“B is the right stage, I have found, to bring in independent board members that have significant experience scaling, driving growth, and potentially key functional expertise in some of the areas that you want to build out, such as sales, partnership, risk, mark…”
Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 17:12 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven
Assertion Contradicted
Independent bookstores grew 10% annually for five consecutive years
“For the last five years, independent bookstores have been growing by about 10% year over year”
Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 24:07 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven
Disclosure
Felicis Ventures pledges 1% of committed capital to founder mental health
“To address this, Felicis launched something called the Founders Pledge, Founders Development Pledge, where we contribute one percent of our committed capital toward leadership coaching and mental health for the founding team.”
Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 33:23 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven
Assertion Partly supported
Kabbage grew revenue from $5M to hundreds of millions in six years
“And together we grew the company from its very beginning in 2012. It was just about four or five million into the hundreds of millions of dollars at the end of last year.”
Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 4:35 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Felicis Ventures tracks Net Promoter Scores for its portfolio founders
“One of the things we do at Felicis is we track NPS score with founders and something we pay a ton of attention to”
Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 6:13 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven
Prediction Partly held up
Global men's grooming market projected to reach $61 billion by 2020
“The men's grooming category alone has moved from becoming a sleeper to all of a sudden very rapid growth. It's Going from about globally, fifty billion in 2017 to sixty one billion by 20 20.”
Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 20:20 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven
Assertion Partly supported
Startup founders suffer anxiety and depression at twice the national rate
“Almost 18% of the U.S. Population today suffers from anxiety and depression, but the studies have shown that for founders, this number is about two times higher”
Victoria Treyger Mar 11, 2019 ▶ 32:52 20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surprises and Challenges About Transitioning To Venture From Operations & 3 Trends Shaking The World of Consumer Today with Victoria Treyger, General Partner @ Felicis Ven

The other half of the tape: Victoria Treyger's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 3 episodes on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 4

Every mention by year

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20VC: What It Takes To Be The Most Effective Coach To Startup Founders, The Biggest Surpri Mar 11, 2019 25m
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