Greg Lynn

Co-founder & CEO, Piaggio Fast Forward · 1 appearance on the record.

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A pioneer in digital architecture and computational fabrication, he founded the practice Greg Lynn FORM and won the Golden Lion at the 2008 Venice Biennale. In addition to teaching at UCLA, he co-founded the robotics company Piaggio Fast Forward, where he led the development of the Gita robot.

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3 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 3 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

8 assertions · 1 opinion · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 3 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 Greg 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

Lynn: Wind-induced bending is the largest load on tall buildings

“So if you take a tall building, the biggest load on the building is it bending in the wind. It's actually not how it's carrying a load down.”

Greg Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:33 a16z Podcast | Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Lynn: 60% of Swiss construction projects utilize robotics

“60% of projects built in Switzerland use robotics at some significant level in the construction process.”

Greg Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:59 a16z Podcast | Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows

How they sound: speaking style how? →

214 words/min while actually speaking · 0.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Greg Lynn: 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 2,196 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Greg Lynn is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

What they said9 Episodes1

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

Assertion Not publicly verifiable

Lynn: Construction projects take longer and cost more than in 1960

“Buildings are delivered later now than they were in 1960 and more over budget than they were in 1960 because of this problem of getting those two things together.”

Greg Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:31 a16z Podcast | Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows

Assertion Contradicted

Lynn: 60% of Swiss construction projects utilize robotics

“60% of projects built in Switzerland use robotics at some significant level in the construction process.”

Greg Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:59 a16z Podcast | Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows

Opinion

Lynn: Brick is the worst material to build with

“But no, like brick, which you think of as a natural good material, is the worst thing you can build with, because you have to fire it with all this energy, you have to truck it, it's heavy.”

Greg Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:41 a16z Podcast | Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Lynn: Construction bakes in 30% waste and 20% schedule delays

“Whereas in the construction industry, the 30% waste and the, you know, 20% of late schedule, it's baked in from the finance all the way down to the smallest subcontractor.”

Greg Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:06 a16z Podcast | Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Lynn: Swiss construction budgets are doubled by 50-70 year mortgages

“Partially the mortgages in Switzerland tend to be 50 to 70 years, so construction budgets are about double.”

Greg Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:08 a16z Podcast | Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows

Assertion Supported

Lynn: Wind-induced bending is the largest load on tall buildings

“So if you take a tall building, the biggest load on the building is it bending in the wind. It's actually not how it's carrying a load down.”

Greg Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:33 a16z Podcast | Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows

Assertion Supported

Lynn: Aerospace and marine composites are entering construction sites

“And it's happening more and more that composites and things from the 19 sixties, high performance boats and airplanes are now starting to show up on job sites.”

Greg Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:13 a16z Podcast | Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Lynn: $100M building projects now require 1,000 drawings versus 150 previously

“It used to be a 150 drawing set for a hundred million dollar building was kind of a lot. And now you would expect a thousand drawings.”

Greg Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:26 a16z Podcast | Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows

Assertion Supported

Lynn: Apple headquarters' carbon fiber was manufactured in Dubai

“The Apple headquarters was all built in Dubai, because they built a facility to build carbon fiber at the scale of buildings there.”

Greg Lynn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 30:26 a16z Podcast | Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows	Jan 2, 2019	12m

Greg Lynn

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