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DJ Kleinbaum

1 appearance on the record.

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12statements → 7claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 4.08/5average certainty → 1.75/5average debate potential →

2 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

7 assertions · 4 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 4 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 DJ 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

Assertion Supported
Emerald Cloud Lab lets scientists globally run experiments remotely in SF
“So we have an application, so scientists anywhere in the world can design an experiment as if they are standing in front of the instrument themselves, That experiment then runs at our essential facility in South San Francisco.”
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 0:23 DJ Kleinbaum

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
50% certainty 3
none yet certainty 4
100% certainty 5

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

How they sound: speaking style how? →

219 words/min while actually speaking · 8.7 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for DJ Kleinbaum: 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: 3,555 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 DJ Kleinbaum said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Laboratory virtualization helps solve the reproducibility crisis in scientific research
“The other important thing that is not necessarily obvious is this helps solve the reproducibility issue that we have in science.”
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 9:04 DJ Kleinbaum
Assertion Partly supported
Typical biotech Series A rounds reached $20M to $40M in 2017
“Nowadays a biotech company might raise 20, 30, forty million dollars for a first round of financing, and we raised a tiny fraction of that”
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 2:18 DJ Kleinbaum
Insight
Automation allows lean biotech startups to match big pharma research output
“You can do, ah, the same amount of work if you just make your scientists that many times more efficient than a company, than those who work at a big pharma company or at one of these other biotech firms.”
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 2:43 DJ Kleinbaum
Disclosure
Emerald Therapeutics taught every scientist on its staff how to code
“We decided to teach every scientist we hired, so organic chemists, molecular biologists, geneticists, you named it, how to write code.”
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 4:50 DJ Kleinbaum
Insight
Emerald Cloud Lab is virtualization like AWS, not outsourcing like CROs
“Be, it's not outsourcing, it's virtualization, so we are much more similar to Taiwan Semiconductor or Amazon Web Services than we are to any of these CROs”
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 8:04 DJ Kleinbaum
Insight
Untracked variables, not fraud, drive the scientific reproducibility crisis
“Maybe a tiny fraction of that might be malfeasance, but most scientists are trying really hard to, like, convey the results they have gotten and how they got them. The problem is, is that when you're doing that, when you're doing everything by hand, and you're…”
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 9:38 DJ Kleinbaum
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Emerald Cloud Lab captures all variables for push-button experiment reproducibility
“Every scientifically relevant variable is captured in lab automation and robotics. We have the fully detailed look at what your, what the world looked like when you ran that experiment. So therefore you can go back and get push button reproducibility because y…”
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 10:17 DJ Kleinbaum
Insight
Cloud lab turnaround must match Amazon Prime speed to be useful
“This needs to be like the Amazon Prime of life sciences research, because if there's too long between when you submit your experiment and when we do it, it's not going to be useful to you”
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 15:11 DJ Kleinbaum
Assertion Supported
Emerald Cloud Lab lets scientists globally run experiments remotely in SF
“So we have an application, so scientists anywhere in the world can design an experiment as if they are standing in front of the instrument themselves, That experiment then runs at our essential facility in South San Francisco.”
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 0:23 DJ Kleinbaum
Assertion Supported
Emerald Cloud Lab captures full environmental and maintenance metadata for experiments
“But it's not just the data that we send back for that particular experiment. It's all of the other meta and ancillary data around that. So things like For the instrument they ran it on, when was the last time we ran controls on that instrument to verify that i…”
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 0:42 DJ Kleinbaum
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Emerald Cloud Lab executes submitted experiment protocols within 48 hours
“So once you've done this a database succession number gets created, which is the number for this protocol. It gets sent to our queue, and then within 48 hours it will be running on one of our instruments.”
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 14:56 DJ Kleinbaum
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Typical life science experiments involve 80 to 100 controllable variables
“For any experiment, there may, might be 80 or a hundred different possible variables that you could change.”
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 13:26 DJ Kleinbaum

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
DJ Kleinbaum Jul 15, 2017 19m
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