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Will Porteous

General Partner & COO, RRE Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Since joining RRE Ventures in 2000, Porteous has focused on early-stage investments across AI, enterprise software, media, and the commercial space sectors. He has served on more than 20 corporate boards, including BlackSky, Spire Global, BuzzFeed, and Paperless Post, and is the co-founder and Chairman of the Dockery Farms Foundation.

9statements → 0claims → 0claims resolved → 4/5average certainty → 2.33/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 1said about them ↓

2 opinions · 4 insights · 2 disclosures · 1 what if · every statement was checked. none of them is a claim the record can settle: opinions, insights and disclosures never carry an assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Will argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

How they sound: speaking style how? →

216 words/min while actually speaking · 8.3 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Will Porteous: 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 13 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 3,356 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Will Porteous 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 ▾ 3/10
pushed back at the host 1/10
setup questions received 62%

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

Insight
Porteous: Consumer Startups Must Rely on Organic Growth Over Paid Acquisition
“I think the way we'll see new consumer experiences launched is actually going to be much more organic. You know, it's the trends, the sharing of new application experiences among communities that we as investors have to really watch for because we can't compet…”
Will Porteous Jul 31, 2017 ▶ 17:36 20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
Insight
Porteous: Building a startup requires 80-100 hour workweeks for 4-5 years
“Are they really ready to commit the 80 to a hundred hours a week for four to five years that it really takes to build a company?”
Will Porteous Jul 31, 2017 ▶ 5:47 20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
Opinion
Porteous: Traditional 10-year venture fund structure no longer works
“The ten-year fund structure with a couple of extensions doesn't really work. It was invented 40 years ago, And it creates a ton of challenges for everyone involved.”
Will Porteous Jul 31, 2017 ▶ 8:46 20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
Opinion
Porteous: Display ad industry persists despite failing advertisers and ad tech collapse
“As we look around kind of the media landscape, I'm constantly amazed at how poorly served most advertisers are. It's part of the reason we've seen such a collapse in the ad tech sector. The fact that we still really have a display advertising industry, to me, …”
Will Porteous Jul 31, 2017 ▶ 23:35 20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
Insight
Porteous: Early-stage venture capital operates identically to the movie business
“All of us, you know, in the early stage of venture business spend our time really thinking about talent, and we could just as easily be talking about, you know, leading actors. I mean, we're looking for massively talented people who can play a leading role in …”
Will Porteous Jul 31, 2017 ▶ 4:55 20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
What-if
Porteous: Secondary options in 2008 would have smoothed LP allocation shock
“The whole industry watched allocations shrink after the liquidity crisis of 2008. If LPs had had a defined exercisable secondary option in their funds. In many cases, they would have pulled it at that point, and it could have been a smoother period for everybo…”
Will Porteous Jul 31, 2017 ▶ 10:46 20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
Insight
Porteous: Time diversification is as essential as stage or sector diversification
“Diversification by time is, is one of the most important instruments that, that we have as investors. And it's actually crucial that in composing a fund, it's not heavily concentrated in a single time period, just as you don't want it to be concentrated in a s…”
Will Porteous Jul 31, 2017 ▶ 12:12 20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
Disclosure
Porteous: RRE's LPs demand early liquidity and double-digit net IRR
“I know that my LPs want to see two things in the first few years of the fund. They want to see early liquidity. They want to see us get well up into double digits in terms of net IRR.”
Will Porteous Jul 31, 2017 ▶ 13:08 20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures
Disclosure
Porteous: Skyhook Wireless Provided Location Software for Early Apple iPhones
“Market-leading chip companies lost 90% of their value and were replaced by software alternatives, including by one of our companies, Skyhook Wireless, which was on the iPhone.”
Will Porteous Jul 31, 2017 ▶ 14:56 20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Really Do Not Work & Why Venture Is So Similar To The Movie Business with Will Porteous, General Partner @ RRE Ventures

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Appearances (1)

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20VC: What Metrics LPs Really Use To Measure Manager Success, Why 10 Year Fund Structures Jul 31, 2017 17m
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