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Reshma Sohoni

Co-Founder, Seedcamp · 1 appearance on the record.

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Reshma Sohoni is a co-founder of Seedcamp. She is an active figure in the London technology and venture capital ecosystem.

13statements → 6claims → 2claims resolved → 3.62/5average certainty → 2.15/5average debate potential →

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 5 assertions · 3 opinions · 2 insights · 1 disclosure · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 4 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 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
Sohoni: Seedcamp makes approximately 40 investments per year
“We're doing about 40 investments a year, so that puts us in quite the very active kind of investor role here.”
Reshma Sohoni Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:30 a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Property Partner Crowdfunded 1.1M Pounds of Real Estate in 2 Minutes
“They just set a world record a couple of days ago. It was a block of four flats, 1.1 million pounds sold out in two minutes and 19 seconds.”
Reshma Sohoni Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:41 a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe

How they sound: speaking style how? →

254 words/min while actually speaking · 26.4 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Reshma Sohoni: 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: 2,389 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 Sohoni said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Sohoni: UK Tech Ecosystem Is 10 to 15 Years Behind Silicon Valley
“Actually, I am hearing of Simon Nixon more and more, but I would say we're probably a decade or 15 years behind in that sense.”
Reshma Sohoni Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:52 a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sohoni: Seedcamp Portfolio Company TransferWise Will Become a Platform Business
“So, you know, you do have the Skype founders who've obviously done an incredible amount with Atomico and then some, but you have Tavit who left Skype and started TransferWise, which is a portfolio company of ours. Absolutely. And you know, I would say has a hu…”
Reshma Sohoni Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:02 a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
Opinion
Sohoni: Regional fragmentation in European venture capital limits startup scalability
“Venture capital, I think, continues to be so regional. I mean, it's a terrible thing. It just doesn't sort of unify across you know, across Europe. And so scalability is limited, therefore, you know to a big reason because of that.”
Reshma Sohoni Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:25 a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sohoni: Crumbling welfare systems are spurring entrepreneurship in Southern Europe
“The challenges we're seeing across continental Europe you know, with those support systems falling apart is actually engendering a move towards entrepreneurship. So we see that in Portugal. Uni places just has been, you know, has had a great round of funding r…”
Reshma Sohoni Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:51 a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
Opinion
Sohoni: Childcare infrastructure in London is nearly impossible for founders
“Childcare is, is kind of impossible in the UK market in London, and somehow it doesn't fall on my husband. It somehow falls on me to kind of think about that, right?”
Reshma Sohoni Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:13 a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sohoni: Europe has not produced a massive tech platform company yet
“We haven't quite hit that sort of massive platform business yet.”
Reshma Sohoni Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:49 a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
Insight
Reshma Sohoni: European startups target urban density over geographic proximity
“Our founders are saying, let me launch immediately in London, Berlin, maybe even in New York, actually. So they're really going after urban spread rather than any kind of geographical bias.”
Reshma Sohoni Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:29 a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
Insight
Global City Residents Share More Cultural Traits Across Borders
“I think a person in Shanghai feels a lot closer to the person culturally, kind of what their day-to-day needs are to a person in New York or San Francisco or London or Berlin versus kind of maybe even the rest of China or rest of India or so forth.”
Reshma Sohoni Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:18 a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sohoni: European tech founders have become far more commercially astute
“When we started, there was a real lack and I think I can say that sort of confidently being American is a lack of commercial sense and sort of how do you get these products out to market and focus around product and usability and, you know, kind of thinking be…”
Reshma Sohoni Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:50 a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
Disclosure
Sohoni: Female-led startups comprise only a tiny fraction of Seedcamp portfolio
“Even in our own portfolio, it's a tiny percentage that are female, female-led companies.”
Reshma Sohoni Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:28 a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
What-if
Reshma Sohoni: Early US Capital Unlocked TransferWise's Growth Trajectory
“I do think the trajectory of that business has changed. It would be in a very different curve. Had it not been for some of that American capital that came in very early.”
Reshma Sohoni Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 33:54 a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
Assertion Supported
Sohoni: Seedcamp makes approximately 40 investments per year
“We're doing about 40 investments a year, so that puts us in quite the very active kind of investor role here.”
Reshma Sohoni Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:30 a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
Assertion Contradicted
Property Partner Crowdfunded 1.1M Pounds of Real Estate in 2 Minutes
“They just set a world record a couple of days ago. It was a block of four flats, 1.1 million pounds sold out in two minutes and 19 seconds.”
Reshma Sohoni Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:41 a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe Jan 2, 2019 10m
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