Mohsen Malayeri

Co-founder, Avatech · 1 appearance on the record.

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13statements → 10claims → 9claims resolved → 78%fully supported → 3.92/5average certainty → 1.69/5average debate potential →

7 supported 2 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 10 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

10 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 10 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 9 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 Mohsen argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Rocket Internet is quietly operating and spending heavily in Iran
“There is a well-known company, Rocket Internet, which has already started operating in the country. A German company, which is basically cloning the successful models in emerging market, where the ecosystem is not really bright that local entrepreneurs be able…”
Mohsen Malayeri Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:21 a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?

How they sound: speaking style how? →

238 words/min while actually speaking · 38 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Mohsen Malayeri: 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: 4,836 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 Mohsen Malayeri said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Rocket Internet is quietly operating and spending heavily in Iran
“There is a well-known company, Rocket Internet, which has already started operating in the country. A German company, which is basically cloning the successful models in emerging market, where the ecosystem is not really bright that local entrepreneurs be able…”
Mohsen Malayeri Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:21 a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
Assertion Supported
Cafe Bazaar maintained market dominance in Iran over Google Play
“By the time that the Google play service was opened up in the country, although there was, there hasn't been a lot of advertising around it, which I don't think Google needs, but cafe buzzer has already created some domination in the market. So they are still …”
Mohsen Malayeri Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:13 a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Global tech diaspora members are returning to Iran to build startups
“We have started to see some of those successful diaspras started to coming back to the country. Those who have been working in top tech, you know, engineering companies and top startup companies, they now realize that maybe this emerging market is the right th…”
Mohsen Malayeri Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:06 a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
Insight
Silicon Valley accelerator models fail in emerging markets like Iran
“We haven't tried to copy Techstars or Y Combinator company to here, which we believe that doesn't work in, in such markets.”
Mohsen Malayeri Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:33 a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
Opinion
Iranian entrepreneurs face a lack of belief from government and investors
“The biggest challenge that the entrepreneurs in Iran are faced with is the word belief. I think that's the biggest challenge that they're believing. Nobody is believing them. I mean, the government, sometimes they don't believe in them. The investors, they don…”
Mohsen Malayeri Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:12 a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
Insight
Local market dynamics pose a greater barrier than language for startups
“Language is absolutely a barrier, but I don't find it as the biggest barrier. I think the biggest barriers is the local challenges that building is a business has in this market from understanding the dynamics of the market, the perspective of the customer, ho…”
Mohsen Malayeri Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:11 a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
Assertion Supported
Iran adds one million smartphones to its cellular networks every month
“Every month there is one million smartphones being added to the network of the country.”
Mohsen Malayeri Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 35:20 a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
Assertion Supported
Top Iranian e-commerce websites process 80 percent of payments online
“The top websites are now exploring 20% cash on delivery and 80% online payments.”
Mohsen Malayeri Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 35:52 a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
Assertion Supported
Malayeri organized 35 Startup Weekends across Iranian cities in 12 months
“For example, only the last 12 months, we did like 35 start-up weekend events in different cities.”
Mohsen Malayeri Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:58 a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
Assertion Supported
Digikala is the largest online retailer in Iran
“Digicolor is basically the biggest online retail in Iran. It's like Amazon of Iran.”
Mohsen Malayeri Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:08 a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
Assertion Partly supported
Iranian Android app marketplace Cafe Bazaar reaches 5 million daily users
“Now there is a platform where fifteen million, more than fifteen million users are already using it. And five million people are using it every day, like daily users.”
Mohsen Malayeri Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 34:15 a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
Assertion Supported
A local Iranian display ad network serves 60 million banners daily
“There are, for example, a platform of local display ads network, which is serving more than sixty million banners every day.”
Mohsen Malayeri Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 34:37 a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
Assertion Partly supported
Mobile phone penetration in Iran exceeds 120 percent
“The mobile penetration of in Iran is more than a 120%. It means that everybody has more than one phone. There are people who have more than one phone.”
Mohsen Malayeri Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 37:28 a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language? Jan 2, 2019 25m
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