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Will Sachs

Founder & CEO, Fulcrum Venture Accelerator · 1 appearance on the record.

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Will Sacks is the founder and CEO of Fulcrum Venture Accelerator, where he advises mission-driven and healthtech founders on fundraising and scaling. He previously co-founded the femtech fertility-tracking company Kindara, which developed the Wink hardware device and was acquired by Prima-Temp.

11statements → 3claims → 2claims resolved → 4.27/5average certainty → 1.64/5average debate potential →

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

1 prediction · 2 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · 5 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 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 Will 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
Sacks: Kindara's fertility tracking method is as effective as the pill
“The method that we use has been shown to be as effective as the pill”
Will Sachs Jul 17, 2015 ▶ 1:56 Founders Friday 004: Life As A Non-Technical Co-Founder with Will Sacks, The Fertility King @ Kindara

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up
Sacks aims for Kindara to be the global women's health app
“So in five years, I want Kindara to be the go-to women's health app for women all over the world for women from when they get their period all the way through to menopause. I want us to be able to offer value and help them understand their cycles better and to…”
Will Sachs Jul 17, 2015 ▶ 20:14 Founders Friday 004: Life As A Non-Technical Co-Founder with Will Sacks, The Fertility King @ Kindara

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
0% certainty 3
100% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

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

How they sound: speaking style how? →

243 words/min while actually speaking · 11.7 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Will Sachs: only 2 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.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,994 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 1/10
setup questions received 65%

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

Assertion Supported
Sacks: Kindara's fertility tracking method is as effective as the pill
“The method that we use has been shown to be as effective as the pill”
Will Sachs Jul 17, 2015 ▶ 1:56 Founders Friday 004: Life As A Non-Technical Co-Founder with Will Sacks, The Fertility King @ Kindara
Opinion
Sacks: The Lean Startup is a condensed Four Steps to the Epiphany
“I think Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank is that, that, and Lean Startup by Eric Ries. They're kind of the same book. One is like condensed and one is much longer.”
Will Sachs Jul 17, 2015 ▶ 18:32 Founders Friday 004: Life As A Non-Technical Co-Founder with Will Sacks, The Fertility King @ Kindara
Disclosure
Will Sacks used fertility charting for birth control for five years
“And so we have a personal experience now of using this as our method of birth control for the last five years.”
Will Sachs Jul 17, 2015 ▶ 8:53 Founders Friday 004: Life As A Non-Technical Co-Founder with Will Sacks, The Fertility King @ Kindara
Insight
Sacks: Hardware creates a stronger competitive advantage than software apps
“I think ultimately it builds more of a competitive advantage just because hardware is hard. Like, It's not easy. People can't rip you off in a weekend hackathon like they can with an app, potentially.”
Will Sachs Jul 17, 2015 ▶ 16:31 Founders Friday 004: Life As A Non-Technical Co-Founder with Will Sacks, The Fertility King @ Kindara
Insight
Sacks: Defining MVP viability is the hardest part of Lean Startup
“Yeah, I mean, the V, the, in MVP, viable. Like, that's the hard one, because how do you know what's viable? Maybe something, maybe what you think is your MVP is not, not quite viable. Like, it needs just a little bit more polish in order to be viable, and then…”
Will Sachs Jul 17, 2015 ▶ 18:52 Founders Friday 004: Life As A Non-Technical Co-Founder with Will Sacks, The Fertility King @ Kindara
Disclosure
Kindara is about to announce a new funding round
“And we're just about to announce some more funding.”
Will Sachs Jul 17, 2015 ▶ 13:40 Founders Friday 004: Life As A Non-Technical Co-Founder with Will Sacks, The Fertility King @ Kindara
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Sacks aims for Kindara to be the global women's health app
“So in five years, I want Kindara to be the go-to women's health app for women all over the world for women from when they get their period all the way through to menopause. I want us to be able to offer value and help them understand their cycles better and to…”
Will Sachs Jul 17, 2015 ▶ 20:14 Founders Friday 004: Life As A Non-Technical Co-Founder with Will Sacks, The Fertility King @ Kindara
Disclosure
Kindara Launched with a Few Thousand Dollars Before Hiring CTO
“It was me, my wife, and an idea, and a few thousand dollars, and so we wrote a posting for CTO, and we were looking around, and one of our friends said, hey, I can do this”
Will Sachs Jul 17, 2015 ▶ 4:00 Founders Friday 004: Life As A Non-Technical Co-Founder with Will Sacks, The Fertility King @ Kindara
Disclosure
Will Sacks reveals Kindara's team is 70% female
“And we've got a 70% female team, and I think that's important.”
Will Sachs Jul 17, 2015 ▶ 9:33 Founders Friday 004: Life As A Non-Technical Co-Founder with Will Sacks, The Fertility King @ Kindara
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kindara launched initial iOS app in 2012 after two weeks coding
“What we did is we spent two weeks coding and then launched what we had. So it barely did anything. It was like a very initial version of the app on iOS only had two screens and barely did anything and like 50 people downloaded it.”
Will Sachs Jul 17, 2015 ▶ 10:54 Founders Friday 004: Life As A Non-Technical Co-Founder with Will Sacks, The Fertility King @ Kindara
Disclosure
Kindara raised $1.7M in angel and VC funding
“Yeah, we've raised about 1.7 million in angel and BC funding thus far.”
Will Sachs Jul 17, 2015 ▶ 12:21 Founders Friday 004: Life As A Non-Technical Co-Founder with Will Sacks, The Fertility King @ Kindara

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Founders Friday 004: Life As A Non-Technical Co-Founder with Will Sacks, The Fertility Kin Jul 17, 2015 14m
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