Matthew Colford
Managing Partner, Carpenter Capital · 4 appearances on the record.
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Matthew Colford is the founder and Managing Partner of Carpenter Capital, an early-stage venture firm. He previously served as an investment partner at Human Capital and worked on policy and regulatory affairs at Andreessen Horowitz.
1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 8 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
1 prediction · 8 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 8 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 Matthew argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.
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249 words/min while actually speaking · 5.2 um and uh per 1k words
No argument clarity score for Matthew Colford: 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 4,047 words across 4 episodes, but every recording we have of Matthew Colford 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 →
Everything Matthew Colford said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
Appearances (4)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| a16z Podcast | A Society Under Construction - Modernizing Infrastructure | Jan 2, 2019 | 2m |
| a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History | Jan 2, 2019 | 5m |
| a16z Podcast | The Blockchain, in Congress | Jan 2, 2019 | 3m |
| a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech | Jan 2, 2019 | 7m |
Played on the show (1)
Episodes where a recording of Matthew Colford was played rather than Matthew taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.
| Episode | Date | On tape | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Lyft and Local Governments | Jan 2, 2019 | 36s | clip played |