Dawn Lepore

Chairman of the Board, Amperity · 1 appearance on the record.

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Lepore previously served as Vice Chairman and Chief Information Officer at Charles Schwab and later served as Chairman and CEO of drugstore.com until its 2011 acquisition by Walgreens. Over a multi-decade career, she has served on the boards of major enterprises, including eBay, Walmart, AOL, and The New York Times Company.

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5 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. none of them is a claim the record can settle: opinions, insights and disclosures never carry an assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Dawn argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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288 words/min while actually speaking · 17 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Dawn Lepore: 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: 2,058 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 →

What they said6 Episodes1

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

Insight

Lepore: Non-profit board experience does not prepare you for corporate boards

“I hear people say, Well, I'm on lots of nonprofit boards, so therefore I can do a public or private, you know, corporate board. They're nothing like each other. Nothing at all. As far as I'm concerned, doing nonprofits, which are great things to do, that's not…”

Dawn Lepore Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:30 a16z Podcast | Public or Private? Finding the Right Board Seat

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Lepore: Board Seats Help Functional Leaders Transition to General Executives

“One of the things that's interesting that's a theme, if you're, if you grow up in a functional area, I was CIO of Schwab, I grew up in technology, I think it's a wonderful way to broaden yourself. I mean, it's hard to break out of your functional area and beco…”

Dawn Lepore Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:33 a16z Podcast | Public or Private? Finding the Right Board Seat

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Lepore: Aspiring public directors must get direct public board experience

“If you want to be on public boards, you need to get your first public board. Now that can be by going on a private board that goes public, but if you really want to be on public boards, Long term. At some point, you need to be on a public board, because they a…”

Dawn Lepore Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:18 a16z Podcast | Public or Private? Finding the Right Board Seat

Insight

Lepore: Corporate boards do not recruit for single-topic functional slots

“There's no slots. Like, I don't think of slots, right? I mean, to your point, you're, you can't be a one-topic board member. That just doesn't work, and you're not contributing to the board, so I think every, Companies different, and you've probably found that…”

Dawn Lepore Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:14 a16z Podcast | Public or Private? Finding the Right Board Seat

Insight

Lepore: New board members should listen rather than speak

“Board meetings can go awry if somebody wants to hear themselves talk, and so you need to know that you don't always have to say something. So I think that's, and I always tell people when they're new on a board, do a lot of listening.”

Dawn Lepore Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:03 a16z Podcast | Public or Private? Finding the Right Board Seat

Disclosure

Lepore networked for 20 months before securing her first board seat

“I networked for about 20 months before I got my first board”

Dawn Lepore Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:44 a16z Podcast | Public or Private? Finding the Right Board Seat

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Public or Private? Finding the Right Board Seat	Jan 2, 2019	8m

Dawn Lepore

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