Keisha Cash

Founder and General Partner, Impact America Fund · 1 appearance on the record.

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Cash launched Impact America Fund in 2013 to make venture investments in tech-driven companies that expand economic opportunity for communities of color. Before leading IAF, she co-founded and managed Jalia Ventures.

7statements → 4claims → 2claims resolved → 3.86/5average certainty → 1.71/5average debate potential →

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

4 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 disclosure · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 2 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 Keisha 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

The average hairstylist in the United States earns $24,000 per year

“And so, for a hairstylist who, on average in America, makes 24,000 dollars a year, and oftentimes are working additional jobs to support their family”

Keisha Cash Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:27 a16z Podcast | Investing in Communities

How they sound: speaking style how? →

240 words/min while actually speaking · 52.2 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Keisha Cash: 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: 3,737 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 said7 Episodes1

Everything Keisha Cash 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

Investors in underserved communities rarely share the demographic background of residents

“Typically the people who have been investing in those communities don't look like the people in those communities.”

Keisha Cash Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:17 a16z Podcast | Investing in Communities

Opinion

Billion-dollar market opportunities exist in underserved communities

“We believe that there are billion dollar market opportunities in underserved communities.”

Keisha Cash Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:55 a16z Podcast | Investing in Communities

Disclosure

Impact America Fund portfolio founders do not attend impact investing conferences

“They're not in our impact investment networks. They're not at the impact investing conferences. The entrepreneurs that we've invested in understood a pain point based on their own experiences, and we're building great, solid companies around that pain point, a…”

Keisha Cash Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:11 a16z Podcast | Investing in Communities

Assertion Not checkable as stated

90% of entrepreneurs of color build solutions for underserved community pain points

“Nine times out of 10, if I met an entrepreneur of color, they were addressing a pain point in an underserved community”

Keisha Cash Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:59 a16z Podcast | Investing in Communities

Assertion Partly supported

Over 91% of impact investing capital goes to later-stage companies

“Over 91% of that capital was invested into later stage companies.”

Keisha Cash Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:06 a16z Podcast | Investing in Communities

What-if

Madam C.J. Walker's business model would qualify as impact investing today

“If Madam C.J. Walker was an entrepreneur today starting her business, for us, that would be an impact investment given that she's empowering these women, she's created this national network, She's providing them an opportunity to generate income.”

Keisha Cash Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:03 a16z Podcast | Investing in Communities