Dan Siroker

Co-Founder & CEO, Optimizely · 2 appearances on the record.

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Dan Siroker is the co-founder and CEO of Optimizely. He focuses on software optimization tools, A/B testing, and emerging internet technologies.

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1 prediction · 2 assertions · 1 insight · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 3 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 Dan argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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263 words/min while actually speaking · 18.3 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Dan Siroker: 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: 3,173 words across 2 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 Dan Siroker said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Dan Soroker: The best enterprise software products are bought, not sold
“Today, the best products are bought. They're not sold. People come to Optimizely, and they try our product, and they convince themselves of the product before they even talk to a salesperson on our team”
Dan Siroker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:39 a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Soroker: Optimizely shares all meeting notes company-wide, including board meetings
“Every meeting at Optimizely, the notes from that meeting, including the board meeting we had last week, get sent to the entire company.”
Dan Siroker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:46 a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Soroker: Businesses will choose best-of-breed software over acquired product suites
“And the way I see, you know, the next few years playing out is that in, in markets where there is a best of breed product that is a delightful product that practitioners and departments will decide to use and evangelize for, as long as those products integrate…”
Dan Siroker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:07 a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
Disclosure
Soroker: Optimizely got lucky discovering broad market for non-technical A/B testing
“I never started the company thinking this is a ubiquitous problem. In fact, we got more lucky than good there, realizing that the problem we faced in the campaign of wanting to do A-B testing, enabling non-technical people to do A-B testing, was actually a pro…”
Dan Siroker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:43 a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Soroker: Optimizely places managers at the bottom of every org chart
“Every org chart at Optimizely, the manager's at the bottom of the org chart, not at the top of the org chart.”
Dan Siroker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:34 a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
Disclosure
Siroker: Both Obama and Romney campaigns used Optimizely in 2012
“We're lucky to have both Obama and Romney use our platform in 2012.”
Dan Siroker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 39:58 a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker

Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Jan 2, 2019 5m
a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Interne Jan 2, 2019 8m
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