Andrew Savage

VP of Sustainability, Lime · 1 appearance on the record.

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After joining Lime’s founding team to direct business development and expansion, Andrew Savage transitioned to leading the company's global sustainability strategy. He previously worked in the clean tech sector and served as Deputy Chief of Staff in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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1 prediction · 2 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved. 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 Andrew 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

Prediction Held up

Savage: LimeBike envisions expanding into small electric vehicles and cars

“We need to do bikes and bike sharing really well to then be able to offer a suite of mobility options in the urban environment or in cities. So we could envision a future where we're rolling out very small vehicles or electric cars, for example, that might not…”

Andrew Savage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:18 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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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? →

239 words/min while actually speaking · 3.5 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Andrew Savage: 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 2,011 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Andrew Savage 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 →

What they said6 Episodes1

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

Prediction Held up

Savage: LimeBike envisions expanding into small electric vehicles and cars

Andrew Savage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:18 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing

Assertion Supported

Savage: Dallas has more bikes than any other U.S. city

“Dallas now has more bikes in its city than any other U.S. City, period, including New York City that is more than 10 times larger.”

Andrew Savage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:47 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing

Assertion Supported

Savage: Increasing bike volume on city streets reduces cycling crashes

“What's been demonstrated around the world is that as more bikes are on the street, actually safety goes up, so you'll have fewer incidences of Crashes or conflicts with cars, etc.”

Andrew Savage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:38 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing

Disclosure

Savage: LimeBike's Seattle launch reached areas unserved by docked systems

“We had an example where we started serving the city of Seattle. They had an old program called Pronto, which is a dock-based system with 500 bikes, and within the first few days of operating, 20 to 30% of our bikes were in parts of the city that previously had…”

Andrew Savage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:23 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing

Opinion

Savage: Bike sharing cannot work without public mass transit investment

“Bike sharing simply wouldn't work without the public investment in mass transit as well, right? I mean, it's sort of a two-way street. They sort of work together, right?”

Andrew Savage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:57 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing

Disclosure

Savage: Over 40% of LimeBike rides connect directly to mass transit

“Our data actually is showing that over 40% of our rides start or stop near a bus or train stop, and so that tells us that we're able to be solving some of those solutions, and I think, in fact, in Dallas, 51% of our rides happen during the evening commute.”

Andrew Savage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:32 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing

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