Michael Franklin
Co-Founder & Director, AMPLab · 1 appearance on the record.
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1 insight · 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.
How they sound: speaking style how? →
280 words/min while actually speaking · 47 um and uh per 1k words
No argument clarity score for Michael Franklin: 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: 2,811 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 →
Everything Michael Franklin 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 Franklin'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 (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| a16z Podcast | AMPLab, the Power of Open Source, and the Future of Systems Software | Jan 2, 2019 | 12m |