Matt Spence

Global Head of Venture Capital Banking, Barclays · 8 appearances on the record.

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He co-founded the Truman National Security Project and served in the Obama administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East Policy. He later became a partner at Andreessen Horowitz before transitioning to investment banking at Guggenheim Partners and Barclays.

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1 prediction · 3 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 4 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 Matt argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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277 words/min while actually speaking · 7.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Matt Spence: 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: 3,553 words across 4 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 said7 Episodes8

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

Insight

Spence: Advanced cyber threats are not the main threat most companies face

“The cyber conversations that often happen in this situation are more of the fad diet. You know, they're dealing with the most advanced threats to companies right now, and those frankly aren't the major threats that most companies need to deal with.”

Matt Spence Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:01 a16z Podcast | Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room

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Spence: Regulatory capture occurs mostly at state and local levels

“The regulatory capture happens more, I think, at the state and local level.”

Matt Spence Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:41 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech

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Open-source information provides as much intelligence as classified data, says Matt Spence

“If you actually just look at what is not classified, you're getting as much information about certain types of topics than you could otherwise.”

Matt Spence Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:36 a16z Podcast | For Your Ears Only

Insight

Spence: Tech policy divides forward vs backward, not left vs right

“I mean, the traditional way you look at issues is left, right. In a weird way, the best way, it's almost like forward backwards if you're looking at different tech issues.”

Matt Spence Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:53 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech

Opinion

Spence: Tech policy regulatory experimentation enjoys broad Democratic support

“I mean, I think this is one of those issues that's not a traditional Republican-Democratic divide. Yeah, I mean, speaking of someone who worked in the Obama administration, Democrats believe strongly in, you know, common rules of the road. The federal governme…”

Matt Spence Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:01 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech

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Spence: American IP protection will become a primary U.S. trade policy priority

“There's one, I think, in a sense, bipartisan issue that I think will become more important in trade policy is protection of American intellectual property.”

Matt Spence Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:47 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech

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Spence: Hartford is converting the historic Colt Armory into a tech incubator

“Hartford, Connecticut, who thinks about them as a tech city? They're emerging from bankruptcy, but they recently started a program where they're converting the old Colt Armory, which used to manufacture, you know, Colt firearms, into a incubator.”

Matt Spence Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:55 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech

Appearances (8)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| The Case Study of Lyft and Local Governments	Jan 2, 2019	4m
a16z Podcast \| Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room	Jan 2, 2019	3m
a16z Podcast \| Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity	Jan 2, 2019	3m
a16z Podcast \| Taking the Measure of Tech in Policy -- with Kamala Harris	Jan 2, 2019	3m
a16z Podcast \| For Your Ears Only	Jan 2, 2019	7m
a16z Podcast \| Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech	Jan 2, 2019	7m
a16z Podcast \| Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis	Jan 2, 2019	3m
a16z Podcast \| What's Next for Technology and National Security?	Jan 2, 2019	4m

Matt Spence

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Appearances (8)

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