Connie Chan
Former General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz · 20 appearances on the record.
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Joining Andreessen Horowitz in 2011, she became the firm's first internally promoted General Partner in 2018 and led investments in companies including KoBold Metals, Cider, and Whatnot. She is widely recognized for her analysis of Asian consumer tech trends and translating their product models to Western markets.
36 supported 9 partly supported 3 contradicted 49 not checkable as stated how the 124 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
27 predictions · 97 assertions · 11 opinions · 51 insights · 2 what ifs · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 124 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 75 are resolved, and 49 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 Connie 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
Expressed certainty vs assessment result
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
Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →
answered every one of 20 assessed questions directly
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? →
251 words/min while actually speaking · 18.5 um and uh per 1k words · 8.2 false starts per 1k · 27.1% of pauses land inside a clause
Um and uh per 1,000 words, year by year. Hover a point for the year's tape.
Measured by listening to the audio itself: 30,416 words across 13 episodes 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 Connie Chan said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
The other half of the tape: Connie Chan's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 12 times in 7 episodes on the a16z Podcast. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Sonal Chokshi 9Matthew Colford 2Andrew Chen 1
Every mention by year
2019 12 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Politics Over Pragmatism -- On China, Trump, and Smart Guns?
- a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
- The a16z Pitch Room: Sandbox VR
- a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- a16z Podcast | All About Stablecoins
- a16z Podcast | Welcome to the New Era of Commerce
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
Appearances (20)
Played on the show (3)
Episodes where a recording of Connie Chan was played rather than Connie taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.
| Episode | Date | On tape | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Four Trends in Consumer Tech | Jan 23, 2020 | 12m | aired address |
| Beyond a Zero-Sum Game: Tech Innovation and China | Mar 7, 2018 | 13m | aired address |
| A Whirlwind Tour Through Tech Trends in China | Jul 16, 2017 | 21m | aired address |