Michael Copeland
Technology Writer and Content Strategist · 84 appearances on the record.
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Michael V. Copeland is a veteran tech journalist who served as a senior editor at WIRED and senior writer at Fortune and Business 2.0. In 2013, he joined venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz to lead content strategy, creating and hosting the firm's flagship a16z Podcast before later leading content initiatives at AWS.
5 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
7 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, and 1 names 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 Michael argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.
Expressed certainty vs assessment result
weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet
How they sound: speaking style how? →
258 words/min while actually speaking · 14.9 um and uh per 1k words · 20.9 false starts per 1k · 43% of pauses land inside a clause
Um and uh per 1,000 words, year by year. Hover a point for the year's tape.
No argument clarity score for Michael Copeland: 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: 58,411 words across 69 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 →
Everything Michael Copeland said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
The other half of the tape: Michael Copeland's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 1 time in 1 episode on the a16z Podcast. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Sonal Chokshi 1
Every mention by year
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
Appearances (84)
Played on the show (19)
Episodes where a recording of Michael Copeland was played rather than Michael 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.