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Penny Pritzker

Founder and Chairman, PSP Partners · 1 appearance on the record.

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Penny Pritzker is an investor, entrepreneur, and former public official who served as the 38th U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Barack Obama from 2013 to 2017. Beyond founding PSP Partners, she co-founded companies including Vi Senior Living, The Parking Spot, and Artemis Real Estate Partners.

20statements → 19claims → 13claims resolved → 69%fully supported → 3.8/5average certainty → 1.7/5average debate potential → 2said about them ↓

9 supported 2 partly supported 2 contradicted 6 not checkable as stated how the 19 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 17 assertions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 19 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 13 are resolved, and 6 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 Penny 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

Prediction Held up
Pritzker: Internet backbone infrastructure is coming to Cuba
“There isn't the internet backbone yet there yet, but it's coming.”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:55 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Pritzker: Privacy Shield has unanimous European Commission approval
“The privacy shield is, as we call, the new structure. Is, I think it's satisfies the court case. It will allow data back and forth. It has the unanimous approval of the European Commission.”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:56 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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none yet certainty 2
100% certainty 3
73% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

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? →

223 words/min while actually speaking · 18 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Penny Pritzker: 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: 3,773 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 Penny Pritzker said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pritzker: Comprehensive immigration reform would add $1.4 trillion to US economy
“It's hugely beneficial if we were to do comprehensive immigration reform. It's worth about 1.4 trillion dollars to our economy”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:41 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pritzker: Indonesian minister asked her to recruit Apple despite hostile data laws
“When I was first in this job, I'm in Indonesia, and a minister comes to me and says, we really want apple here in Indonesia, and would you please call Tim Cook? We'd like apple. I said, you know, look, I'm happy to call Tim Cook, but you are, Putting in place …”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:41 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Assertion Contradicted
Pritzker: Privacy Shield has unanimous European Commission approval
“The privacy shield is, as we call, the new structure. Is, I think it's satisfies the court case. It will allow data back and forth. It has the unanimous approval of the European Commission.”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:56 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pritzker: Asia-Pacific middle class will reach 2.5B-3.5B in 15 years
“Over the next 15 years, you're going to see it go from about five hundred million to five hundred and seventy million middle class to Somewhere between two and a half and three and a half billion. I've seen numbers in, in, in that range. In 15 years.”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:39 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pritzker: U.S. GDP statistics fail to adequately capture the gig economy
“In fact, one of the challenges we have right now, and I'm fighting to get access to this information, is we don't have, really, we're not counting, I don't think, in GDP, the gig economy, as fulsomely as it ought to be accounted in our GDP, and one of the thin…”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:06 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pritzker: One-third of U.S. economic growth depends on business creation
“Fully a third of our growth is dependent upon what you guys do, which is build businesses.”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:10 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Assertion Partly supported
Pritzker: Over 50% of US STEM students are immigrants
“Fully north of 50% of the people that we're training in this country in STEM fields are Immigrants, right?”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:20 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Insight
Pritzker: Tech innovation ecosystems require tolerance for failure and flexible bankruptcy laws
“The first thing you have to do is, it has to be ok to fail. You've got to make it easy to start a company, easy to close a company. It's got to be easy to declare bankruptcy, it's got to be culturally acceptable to try something and fail, and that be ostracize…”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:56 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Assertion Contradicted
Pritzker: Only four privacy cases occurred under prior US-EU agreement
“There have only been four cases. Mm-hmm. Four cases.”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:55 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Prediction Held up
Pritzker: Internet backbone infrastructure is coming to Cuba
“There isn't the internet backbone yet there yet, but it's coming.”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:55 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pritzker: 11.5M American jobs depend on US exports
“We have 11 and a half million people whose jobs depend on selling goods outside the United States.”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:47 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Assertion Supported
Pritzker: U.S. government releases only 10% of its weather data
“So we produce weather data, which we're only making about 10% of our weather data available right now, and that's powering things like the weather channel and other things.”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:36 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Assertion Supported
Pritzker: Federal $70M manufacturing institute grants get at least 1:1 match
“U.S. Federal government puts up, what's called, seventy million dollars to create, ah, an institute on three-D printing, or composite materials, or advanced manufacturing. And the latest one is smart fabrics. And that's matched at least one to one, and in most…”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:13 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Assertion Supported
Pritzker: US-EU digital commerce reaches $280B annually
“They understand that we do two hundred and eighty billion dollars of digital commerce annually right now, and it's only growing.”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:07 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Assertion Supported
Pritzker: Roughly 4,000 companies rely on transatlantic safe harbor rules
“There's 4000 businesses, roughly, across the Atlantic that benefit from having, you know, in essence, a safe harbor for how do you, what, how do you put, send data back and forth across the Atlantic where privacy is protected”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:16 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Assertion Supported
Pritzker: 95% of global consumers reside outside the United States
“95% of customers are outside the United States. 80% of purchasing power is outside the United States.”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:28 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Assertion Partly supported
Pritzker: Obama administration laid 130,000 miles of high-speed broadband
“We've laid about a 130,000 miles of high-speed broadband during the Obama administration.”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:55 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Assertion Supported
Pritzker: Commerce Department generates 20 to 40 terabytes of daily data
“We produce 20 to 40 terabytes of data a day.”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:22 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Assertion Supported
Pritzker: 500 term tech fellows work across the federal government
“You know, we've now got, I think, throughout the federal government about 500 of such folks who are here as term employees to help us with, ah, different types of digital and data projects throughout the federal government.”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:34 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
Assertion Supported
Pritzker: Digital Attachés pilot operates across six global markets
“We have our new program called our Digital Attachés, which are in six markets. It's a pilot in the ASEAN countries, India, China, Japan, Brazil, and the EU.”
Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:41 a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker

The other half of the tape: Penny Pritzker's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 2 times in 2 episodes on the a16z Podcast. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

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a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 21m
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