Michael Dearing
Founder and General Partner, Harrison Metal · 1 appearance on the record.
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Michael Dearing is the founder and general partner of the early-stage venture capital firm Harrison Metal. He previously served as Senior Vice President at eBay and taught at Stanford University's d.school.
3 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. none of them is a claim the record can settle: opinions, insights and disclosures never carry an 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.
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254 words/min while actually speaking · 9.4 um and uh per 1k words
No argument clarity score for Michael Dearing: 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: 2,024 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 →
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Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| a16z Podcast | The Asshole Survival Guide | Jan 2, 2019 | 9m |