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Brad Feld

Partner & Co-Founder, Foundry · 1 appearance on the record.

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Brad Feld is a partner and co-founder at Foundry and a co-founder of Techstars. He has backed companies including Fitbit and Zynga, and co-authored the book Venture Deals.

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

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239 words/min while actually speaking · 32.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Brad Feld: 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: 2,222 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 Brad Feld said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Feld: Governments and universities must participate in startup networks, not control them
“Often, and especially, you know, in different parts of the economic cycle, you have top-down focus, and you have government start to try to organize what's going on in the startup community, or you have academia or university in the city try to become the cent…”
Brad Feld Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:34 a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
Insight
Feld: Replicating Silicon Valley is the wrong goal for other cities
“The notion of trying to create the next Silicon Valley is, is completely the wrong question. And it's a wrong question for lots of reasons. But most importantly, each different geographic region, any city in the world, has different natural resources.”
Brad Feld Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:11 a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
Insight
Feld: Top-down government efforts without bottom-up entrepreneurship produce stagnation
“When you have top-down in the absence of bottom-up entrepreneur, you know, entrepreneur-led phenomena, grassroots, whatever phrase you want to use, nothing really happens. You get this stagnation.”
Brad Feld Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:02 a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
Opinion
Feld: American democracy is resilient because it is not well-structured
“I actually don't think that for example, an American democracy is a particularly well-organized or well-structured phenomenon. I think part of the reason it's so resilient is that it's not”
Brad Feld Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:41 a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
Insight
Feld: Every city on Earth originally formed as a startup
“Every single city on the planet was once a start-up.”
Brad Feld Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:25 a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
Disclosure
Feld: A 1990s Chinese deal effectively stripped away his company's ownership
“I've been on the receiving end, for example, of you know, deals that I did in the late nineties. You know, I'm thinking of one in particular with a Chinese company where, you know, the merger agreement came back entirely in Chinese. We really had no choice but…”
Brad Feld Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:32 a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
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Feld: US tech companies struggle because laws lag behind innovation
“There's many, many companies that are struggling with this in lots of places in the U.S. Right now because the laws don't keep up with innovation.”
Brad Feld Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:20 a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
Insight
Feld: Complex value chains create stronger local startup advantages
“It's, the more complex the value chain is between the end customer and the supplier of the product or the manufacture of the product. And the more complex that is, the bigger the local advantage.”
Brad Feld Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:50 a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe

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Appearances (1)

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a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe Jan 2, 2019 12m
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