Andy Walsh

Director of High Performance, Red Bull · 1 appearance on the record.

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Andy Walshe is the director of high performance at Red Bull. He trains athletes and performers physically and psychologically to push human potential.

14statements → 3claims → 1claims resolved → 4.07/5average certainty → 1.93/5average debate potential → 3.7/5argument clarity · the sources → 3said about them ↓

0 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 1 assertion · 6 insights · 5 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is 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.

The record, in short

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

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

3.7 / 5 directness 3.5 · coherence 3.7 · precision 3.1 · compression 2.8

redirected or did not address 2 of 10 assessed questions (20%). Watch them ▸

This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →

How they sound: speaking style how? →

280 words/min while actually speaking · 11.5 um and uh per 1k words · 19.1 false starts per 1k · 39.5% of pauses land inside a clause

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 5,762 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 Andy Walsh said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Walshe: Unbroken Talent Is a Curse Because Performers Lack Proven Resilience
“A talent is a curse because if you come to us as the best in class over, you've been that rising star, the shooting star for your entire career. And you come to us, we know at some point you're going to get beaten. And if you've never been beaten badly and unt…”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 35:30 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
Insight
Walshe: Simulating Domain-Specific Stress Fails Because Subjects Know It Is Fake
“If we try and fake a real scenario, they know it's fake, it doesn't work. If we create a stressful scenario where, like stand-up comedy, where they have probably never done it before, they have to stand up in a room and make everyone laugh, they've got to real…”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:47 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
Disclosure
Red Bull shares almost all human performance data openly
“We share pretty much everything we're collecting, and we have examples of that through our different platforms, and the idea being that, you know, the human entity and understanding what it takes to sort of help that performance Increase is such a complex prob…”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:50 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
Disclosure
Red Bull Trained Business Leaders Using Simulated High-Stress Athlete Scenarios
“And we just finished a project that sort of focused purely on that, just Various days, various elements of stress imposed by us on the talent, and there was business and athletes mixed together, and the results were astounding, because they just got to practic…”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:04 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Walsh: Elite performance data and training will be accessible to everyone
“At the end of the day, the individual approach to top performers is what's going to be open up to everybody in the next few years, and you see these trends in individualized health and medicine. Back to the point Jordan made, the data is going to be personaliz…”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:20 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
Insight
Walsh: High-performance training tech develops through a two-way consumer funnel
“Those consumer-driven needs are actually helping us create simple systems that we can then employ back up the chain. So it's always this two-way funnel.”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:36 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
Insight
Walsh: Copying competitors keeps you behind and ignores culture
“Even if you copied everything you were doing, you're one, you're copying us, which means you're behind us, which is a great thing. And two, but our culture has figured these things out this way. You're going to have to figure out how it applies in your culture…”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:27 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
Disclosure
Red Bull collects performance data for future retroactive analysis
“Everyone's collecting a lot of stuff right now, especially in these fields, and we're collecting it in some cases, even ourselves, with the hope that in a couple of years we get good enough to understand it, so retroactively accessing it”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:18 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Walsh: Mind-body performance tech and headsets will hit consumers in 4-5 years
“I think you'll start to see in the next four to five years, some of these technologies that sort of harness the best aspects of what we've done, whether it be the physical sort of development and optimizing that. I think we're already fairly well down that pat…”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 32:03 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
Disclosure
Red Bull runs a program to assess and encourage humility
“We have a program to investigate humility and how to encourage that and assess that.”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 34:54 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
Insight
Andy Walsh: Ancillary Learnings From Moonshots Deliver the Most Value
“It's sort of the things you learn ancillary to the final objective that seem to have the most value, and for us, the great takeaways were this sort of idea that training for these times, training for the unknown, preparing people to deal with that moment when …”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 38:11 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
Assertion Partly supported
Red Bull Operates Lab Prototyping Physical and Spiritual High Performance
“We do have a lab. We do have a place where we can actually sort of prototype new technologies, new components of performance, and that encompasses everything from the specific fitness all the way through to the psychology, to the cognitive social development, …”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:27 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
Insight
Walshe: Four-Minute Box Breathing Four Times Daily Reduces Stress Within Weeks
“And you sort of say, okay, breathing's a powerful tool, and it's actually been proven to reduce the stress. And if you learn it's very simple, four seconds in, four seconds out, four times a day, four minutes at a time, that will have an impact over a couple o…”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:49 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
Disclosure
Red Bull Ran a High-Performance Training Camp for Carnegie Mellon Hackers
“We did a prototype training camp for that community about four months ago.”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:18 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential

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a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential Jan 2, 2019 24m
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