Chris Messina

Product Consultant and Startup Investor · 1 appearance on the record.

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Chris Messina is an open-web pioneer recognized for inventing the hashtag on Twitter in 2007 and co-founding BarCamp. He formerly served as a Developer Advocate at Google and Developer Experience Lead at Uber.

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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 · 4 opinions · 1 insight · 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 Chris 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

Messina: Facebook beat Apple Pay to web checkout integration

“And they beat Apple pay to the web, which I think is, is hugely important for the developing world and for people who live in environments that are not at all like ours.”

Chris Messina Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:39 a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Messina: Facebook Login is integrated into 70% of top global apps

“I mean, they said yesterday that Facebook login is used across 70% of apps out there in the world.”

Chris Messina Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:38 a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond

How they sound: speaking style how? →

289 words/min while actually speaking · 16.8 um and uh per 1k words · 14.4 false starts per 1k · 35.1% of pauses land inside a clause

No argument clarity score for Chris Messina: 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: 4,583 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 →

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

Opinion

Messina: The web has completely failed as an identity and payment platform

“So when I think about the failure of the web as the platform, it's because it's so heavy. It's because, you know, ad blockers are in ascendancy because the web is so slow for most of the world that we don't have sensitivity to that. And so when it comes to ide…”

Chris Messina Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:48 a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond

Opinion

Messina: Chatbots are currently dumb and shouldn't replace all web interfaces

“I actually agree with you that chat isn't the right thing for all things. One of the critiques that I got, of course, from the piece that I wrote about conversational commerce was, well, it was your critique, which is, well, you know, it doesn't make sense to …”

Chris Messina Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:34 a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Messina: Conversational software is a paradigm spanning chat and voice platforms

“It's about conversational software as being a new paradigm for releasing and launching services, features, and tools in a way that previously people didn't have that expectation. And so that's the shift that I see in terms of this new runtime and that those co…”

Chris Messina Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 36:10 a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond

Opinion

Messina: Searching for the 'WeChat of the West' is unhelpful

“There is, and has been this meme, which I have nothing to do with and don't think that it's that useful of figuring out what the WeChat of the West is going to be. And it's actually not that interesting of a question.”

Chris Messina Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:46 a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond

Insight

Messina: Users abandon social platforms when aggressive monetization begins

“Successively, though, you see generations of people using social media abandon the previous generation once they move into monetization mode because they start to abuse the users.”

Chris Messina Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 32:16 a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond

Assertion Supported

Messina: Facebook beat Apple Pay to web checkout integration

“And they beat Apple pay to the web, which I think is, is hugely important for the developing world and for people who live in environments that are not at all like ours.”

Chris Messina Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:39 a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond

Opinion

Messina: Facebook remains a strong long-term platform as markets mature

“I think with a maturing market that starts to understand the power and utility of internet access and internet identity, Facebook is actually a pretty good platform to build on for the longterm.”

Chris Messina Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:54 a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond

Assertion Contradicted

Messina: Facebook Login is integrated into 70% of top global apps

“I mean, they said yesterday that Facebook login is used across 70% of apps out there in the world.”

Chris Messina Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:38 a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond

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Statements about Chris Messina, by other people (1)

Assertion Supported

Chokshi: Chris Messina proposed the first Twitter hashtag

“He's widely credited with proposing the first use of hashtag on Twitter”

Sonal Chokshi Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:31 a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Bots and Beyond	Jan 2, 2019	19m

Chris Messina

The record, in short

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