JD Moriarty

CEO, ICR Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Moriarty serves as Chief Executive Officer of ICR Capital, advising corporate boards, venture sponsors, and management teams on IPOs and equity derivatives. Previously, he spent over two decades at Bank of America Merrill Lynch leading Equity Capital Markets before serving in executive roles, including Chief Financial Officer, at LendingTree.

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1 assertion · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. 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 JD argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Moriarty: Mead Johnson was the only 2009 US IPO before OpenTable

“And the only IPO prior to Open Table in 2009 was a company called Mead Johnson, so a very defensive company, the type of thing that should go out in 2009 in consumer products.”

JD Moriarty Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:21 a16z Podcast | The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO

How they sound: speaking style how? →

274 words/min while actually speaking · 6 um and uh per 1k words · 9.7 false starts per 1k · 25.4% of pauses land inside a clause

No argument clarity score for JD Moriarty: 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: 2,176 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 said4 Episodes1

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

Insight

Moriarty: Time IPOs based on business readiness, not market conditions

“Time the IPO for your business and your team, including your board and investors. Don't time it around the market, time it around at the right time for your business.”

JD Moriarty Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:34 a16z Podcast | The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO

Insight

Moriarty: Involving too many employees early in IPO prep is a mistake

“And in fact, one of the mistakes that we see companies make periodically is, is one, building employee expectations towards an IPO too early, and two, involving too many people.”

JD Moriarty Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:27 a16z Podcast | The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO

Insight

Moriarty: Three executives is the maximum team size for IPO roadshows

“We often ran into management teams that wanted to have too many people on the road. Three people sort of the outer number”

JD Moriarty Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:21 a16z Podcast | The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO

Assertion Contradicted

Moriarty: Mead Johnson was the only 2009 US IPO before OpenTable

“And the only IPO prior to Open Table in 2009 was a company called Mead Johnson, so a very defensive company, the type of thing that should go out in 2009 in consumer products.”

JD Moriarty Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:21 a16z Podcast | The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO	Jan 2, 2019	9m

JD Moriarty

The record, in short

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