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Alexis Madrigal

Co-host of Forum, KQED · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alexis Madrigal is a co-host of Forum at KQED and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He co-founded The COVID Tracking Project and is the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.

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2 assertions · 2 opinions · 3 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 2 name 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.

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

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249 words/min while actually speaking · 16.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Alexis Madrigal: 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.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,072 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 →

Everything Alexis Madrigal said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Madrigal: Facebook and Google hold hegemonic control over the mobile advertising market
“Facebook and Google essentially having hegemonic control over mobile advertising, which is where everyone sees things going.”
Alexis Madrigal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:32 a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media
Opinion
Madrigal: Facebook currently dominates online media distribution and internet traffic
“Facebook right now has eaten the internet, you know.”
Alexis Madrigal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:06 a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media
Disclosure
Madrigal: Facebook sends The Atlantic more traffic than the entire web combined
“And so we've been able to sort of back into a bunch of different types of experiments, and seeing natural experiments that are running and find that basically Facebook is sending more traffic to us than the entire rest of the internet that we can see combined.”
Alexis Madrigal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:23 a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media
Disclosure
Madrigal: Facebook drives an order of magnitude more traffic than Twitter
“Oh, an order of magnitude.”
Alexis Madrigal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:44 a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media
Opinion
Madrigal: Exposing certain types of journalists to distribution metrics is dangerous
“I mean, I find it personally interesting, but I think that it's, you It is a, it's a dangerous thing to bring into contact with journalists of certain types.”
Alexis Madrigal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:00 a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Madrigal: Repackaging an Atlantic Facebook post boosted traffic to one million readers
“We had a story about tattoos and why, how tattoos work, like, within your body, and it's like a health story, and we sold it once on Facebook and I think on Wednesday, and kind of nothing happened. You know, maybe we're talking a few thousand unique visitors t…”
Alexis Madrigal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:57 a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media
Insight
Madrigal: Journalism tools remain unchanged except for accessible light data analysis
“In terms of the actual tools though, I don't think that much has changed. Except for the really easy availability and access and comfort that lots of people have doing, like, light data analysis.”
Alexis Madrigal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:51 a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media
Insight
Madrigal: Direct self-publishing allows tech companies to bypass mass-market journalists
“A lot of these companies can actually have a better sense of who they're trying to reach, and so they don't have to, like, go, they don't have to lens through a reporter who's gonna try and mass market it, right? Instead, they're just gonna go, alright, there'…”
Alexis Madrigal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:32 a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media
Insight
Madrigal: A startup's core idea is more compelling than its app features
“The idea that's embedded inside of these startups is usually more interesting than whatever thing their actual app is doing.”
Alexis Madrigal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:01 a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media Jan 2, 2019 9m
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