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Reshma Saujani

Founder & CEO, Moms First · 1 appearance on the record.

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In 2012, she founded Girls Who Code to close the gender gap in technology, scaling the nonprofit into a global movement that has educated hundreds of thousands of girls in computer science. She later founded Moms First to champion paid family leave, affordable child care, and equal pay, and has authored bestselling books.

7statements → 4claims → 3claims resolved → 33%fully supported → 4.43/5average certainty → 1.57/5average debate potential → 1said about them ↓

1 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 3 assertions · 1 insight · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 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 Reshma 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
Saujani: Girls Who Code scaled to 3,000 students in three years
“Over the past three years, we've been able to grow from 20 girls in 2012 to 3000 today.”
Reshma Saujani Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:01 a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up
Reshma Saujani: Women will hold less than 20% of future technical jobs
“When you look at the trajectory of women, they're the majority of our breadwinners, they're the majority of our labor force, but, you know, less than 20% of them are going to be feeling the technical jobs in the future.”
Reshma Saujani Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:26 a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
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25% certainty 4
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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? →

267 words/min while actually speaking · 6.8 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Reshma Saujani: 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: 2,070 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 Reshma Saujani said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Didn’t hold up
Reshma Saujani: Women will hold less than 20% of future technical jobs
“When you look at the trajectory of women, they're the majority of our breadwinners, they're the majority of our labor force, but, you know, less than 20% of them are going to be feeling the technical jobs in the future.”
Reshma Saujani Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:26 a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?
Disclosure
Saujani: Girls Who Code raised seed capital from individual tech executives
“When I first started Girl Who Code, we couldn't get a foundation to support us, and our first seed money came from Rochelle Parham, who was a CMO at eBay, and Beth Comstock, a CMO of GE, and Dick Hensel at Twitter, and Jack Dorsey”
Reshma Saujani Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:19 a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Saujani: Coding education lifts entire families into the middle class
“And that we have seen entire families being able to be lift up into the middle class by being, by getting access to coding and technology and getting opportunities to work in these companies.”
Reshma Saujani Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:30 a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?
Insight
Saujani: Coding inherently teaches students to normalize and accept failure
“Coding is about failing. Like, it is, I mean, I'm learning how to code. I've been learning how to code. It is so frustrating. You know, especially the type A woman who wants to get my code right all the time, and that is what I love about the work that we do i…”
Reshma Saujani Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:31 a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?
Disclosure
Saujani: 80% of Girls Who Code students are minorities, median score 89%
“Half our girls are from free reduced lunch, 80% are minority, and what's so incredible is that, you know, the median school on the technical survey, which is the equivalent of basically a college CS one-on-one exam is an 89%”
Reshma Saujani Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 32:15 a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?
Assertion Supported
Saujani: Girls Who Code scaled to 3,000 students in three years
“Over the past three years, we've been able to grow from 20 girls in 2012 to 3000 today.”
Reshma Saujani Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:01 a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?
Assertion Partly supported
Saujani: Female doctors and lawyers grew from 10% to 45% since 1970s
“In the 19 seventies, only 10% of doctors and lawyers were women, and today that number is 45%.”
Reshma Saujani Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:02 a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?

The other half of the tape: Reshma Saujani'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 →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code? Jan 2, 2019 9m
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