Grant Jordan

Founder & CEO, SkySafe · 3 appearances on the record.

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An MIT graduate and former U.S. Air Force officer who developed small UAV systems at the Air Force Research Lab, Jordan co-founded drone defense company SkySafe in 2015. The Andreessen Horowitz-backed company develops RF-based airspace intelligence, unauthorized drone detection, and forensic solutions for defense and critical infrastructure clients.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 assertions · 2 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 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 Grant 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

Jordan: Hollywood secured drone exemptions by repurposing manned helicopter safety manuals

“They paved the way for the use of drones in filming because they already had all of the safety procedures and flight manuals and things that they'd been using for manned helicopter shoots for years. So they literally just took those and shifted them over and, …”

Grant Jordan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:36 a16z Podcast | Airspace as the Next Internet-Like Platform

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Jordan: The 30-mile radius around Washington D.C. is a no-drone zone

“Anyone flying a drone right now within a 30 mile radius of Washington, D.C., right? Right now, in order to do that, you need to essentially override those controls because that 30 mile radius is a no drone zone.”

Grant Jordan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:32 a16z Podcast | Airspace as the Next Internet-Like Platform

How they sound: speaking style how? →

278 words/min while actually speaking · 25.7 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Grant Jordan: only 1 usable question→answer exchange 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: 4,160 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 →

What they said6 Episodes3

Everything Grant Jordan 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

Jordan: Enterprise customers prioritize defending facilities against unauthorized drones

“We talked to a lot of customers that their biggest focus right now is on thinking about protecting themselves from other people's drones.”

Grant Jordan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:41 a16z Podcast | Eyes in the Sky

Insight

Jordan: Stadiums will delay drone adoption until they can control airspace

“Stadiums would love to use drones in the future to do their filming and to do all kinds of other stuff, but their big concern is, you know, they don't want to just roll drones into their infrastructure if they can't control what drones are there and what drone…”

Grant Jordan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:10 a16z Podcast | Eyes in the Sky

Disclosure

Jordan: SkySafe manages drone airspace via communication protocols, not physical interception

“Our focus is more on the communication side, on looking at the drone protocols, on identifying what drones are flying in an area, so that that can lead to actual airspace management, of authorizing drones to be in an area, and knowing when there are drones tha…”

Grant Jordan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:40 a16z Podcast | Eyes in the Sky