David Lee
CFO, WEBTOON Entertainment · 2 appearances on the record.
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David J. Lee is an executive who helped take WEBTOON Entertainment public on NASDAQ and oversees its subsidiary, Wattpad. He is widely recognized for his tenure as COO and CFO of Impossible Foods from 2015 to 2021, during which he raised over $1 billion and scaled commercial operations.
6 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 6 not checkable as stated how the 13 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
2 predictions · 11 assertions · 2 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 13 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 7 are resolved, and 6 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 David 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
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248 words/min while actually speaking · 7.3 um and uh per 1k words
No argument clarity score for David Lee: 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: 2,045 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 David Lee said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
Appearances (2)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| a16z Podcast | Reinventing Food | Jan 2, 2019 | 4m |
| a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat' | Jan 2, 2019 | 5m |