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Eileen Burbage

Founding Partner, Passion Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Eileen Burbidge is an American-British venture capitalist who co-founded early-stage firm Passion Capital after holding product and marketing roles at Apple, Yahoo!, and Skype. She previously chaired Tech Nation and served as the UK Treasury's Special Envoy for FinTech.

11statements → 10claims → 9claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 3.73/5average certainty → 1.64/5average debate potential →

6 supported 1 partly supported 2 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 10 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 9 assertions · 1 opinion · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 10 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 9 are resolved, and 1 names 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 Eileen 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
Burbidge: London surpassed New York as global financial capital in 2015
“Which it just re-got again from New York this year.”
Eileen Burbage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:50 a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Burbidge: London hosts more US bank headquarters than New York
“We have more American bank headquarters here in London than in New York.”
Eileen Burbage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:06 a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
100% certainty 3
69% certainty 4
none yet 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? →

290 words/min while actually speaking · 8.2 um and uh per 1k words · 5.5 false starts per 1k · 28.4% of pauses land inside a clause

No argument clarity score for Eileen Burbage: only 2 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: 3,296 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 Eileen Burbage said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Contradicted
Burbidge: London hosts more US bank headquarters than New York
“We have more American bank headquarters here in London than in New York.”
Eileen Burbage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:06 a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
Assertion Contradicted
Burbidge: Over 90% of European banks rely on FIS or Fiserv
“It's at least here in Europe about something like 90%, more than that, of all of the banks are using one of two back-end suppliers, FIS or Fiserv, which prohibits them from being able to do things faster.”
Eileen Burbage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:10 a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
Opinion
Burbidge: The term "fintech" is a swipe at legacy banks
“It's almost like a diss, right? It's like the new, newer companies are thinking, oh, we're going to introduce technology into your sector, thereby implying that they never used technology to do it. So it's almost a bit of a swipe.”
Eileen Burbage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:20 a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
Assertion Supported
Burbidge: London surpassed New York as global financial capital in 2015
“Which it just re-got again from New York this year.”
Eileen Burbage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:50 a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
Assertion Supported
Burbidge: UK government committed to granting 15 challenger bank licenses
“We're going to approve or grant new licenses for up to 15 challenger banks.”
Eileen Burbage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:41 a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
Assertion Supported
Burbidge: London transit is world's largest bank-backed contactless network
“And that is the largest contactless payment bank sort of backbone as opposed to a private network contactless payment in the world.”
Eileen Burbage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:55 a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
Assertion Supported
Burbidge: Nearly 80% of millennials trust tech giants over banks
“Certainly more than 50, I think it was close to 80% of millennials trust the brands, you know, Facebook or Google. Or Apple, I think was the top of the pile, much more than their banks.”
Eileen Burbage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 32:18 a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Burbidge: Fintech startups will sell to big tech, not banks
“Your exit opportunities aside from staying independent and maybe going public or whatever is potentially on the buyout side. You may not be selling to a bank, you might be selling to Facebook, you might be selling to Amazon, you might be selling to Google as t…”
Eileen Burbage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 32:37 a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
Assertion Supported
Burbidge: 190 million people in India opened bank accounts in four years
“You look at what's happened in India, they've had a hundred and ninety million people open up bank accounts in the last four years”
Eileen Burbage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 40:28 a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
Assertion Partly supported
Burbidge: UK financial sector contributes up to £160B annually to GDP
“The financial services sector contributes about 150 to one hundred and sixty billion pounds a year to the UK economy and GDP.”
Eileen Burbage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:15 a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
Assertion Supported
Burbidge: Barclays spends $5 billion annually on technology
“Barclays has been publicly establishing that they spend three billion pounds a year, which is about five million dollars, five billion dollars a year on its IT spend or its tech spend”
Eileen Burbage Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:25 a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London Jan 2, 2019 13m
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