David Tuttle
Cofounder & CEO, Rune · 1 appearance on the record.
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David Tuttle is the cofounder and chief executive officer of defense startup Rune. He is a military veteran focused on building dual-use defense technology.
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.
How they sound: speaking style how? →
292 words/min while actually speaking · 35.6 um and uh per 1k words
No argument clarity score for David Tuttle: 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: 2,526 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 David Tuttle said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| The Dual-Use Founder: Vets Now Building For America | Apr 21, 2025 | 10m |