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Scott Weiss

Former General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz · 3 appearances on the record.

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Scott Weiss co-founded the email and web security company IronPort Systems in 2001 and served as its CEO until Cisco acquired it in 2007. In 2011, he joined Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner, leading enterprise software investments.

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2 predictions · 1 opinion · 7 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 2 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 Scott 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? →

286 words/min while actually speaking · 23.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Scott Weiss: 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: 6,438 words across 3 episodes 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 Scott Weiss said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Weiss: Balance every VC board member with an experienced CEO director
“I always kind of had a rule of thumb, like every time a VC joined my board, I'd add a CEO.”
Scott Weiss Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:00 a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
Insight
Weiss: Customer board observers inhibit open discussion of company issues
“Where you try to get like a customer on your board, you know, like where, where they'd want an observer seat if they do a strategic round, somebody, Like, you know, I won't name any names, but sometimes that can alter what you say in the board meeting. You kno…”
Scott Weiss Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 31:10 a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weiss: Legacy software giants will fail to adapt due to design hiring
“I honestly don't think that the old old line companies are going to make this shift, make this change, and one of the reasons I contend is they can't hire the design talent.”
Scott Weiss Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:38 a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
Opinion
Weiss: Most enterprise SaaS mobile products are crap
“If you look at most of the enterprise, even the enterprise SaaS companies, their mobile products are crap.”
Scott Weiss Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:56 a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
Insight
Weiss: Boards scrutinize every number management puts on a slide
“The board eats whatever you serve them, and so you are the one that's preparing the meal and putting it in front of them, but you know, if you put up a slide with a bunch of numbers, they're going to ask you about every single number on that slide, right?”
Scott Weiss Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:55 a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
Insight
Weiss: Regular executive sessions stop board members from conspiring offline
“Because it's like with every board I'm on after a period of time, I try to convince the CEO that it's a good idea because the first, like when I first walk in, It's normally like, what? You're gonna be talking about me, like, when I'm not here? But the implied…”
Scott Weiss Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:57 a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
Insight
Weiss: CEOs should ask vulnerable questions to coaches, not board members
“I would also recommend that there are things that you don't want to share with board members that you'd want to have a mentor or a CEO coach that you can ask those stupid questions with. So they're, you know, like, I think there's a range of questions that I f…”
Scott Weiss Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 42:23 a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Scott Weiss: Smart locks are the top IoT application for five years
“If I were to handicap, like, what I would like to see in the next five years on Internet of Things, I think locks would be my number one.”
Scott Weiss Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:50 a16z Podcast | Gateway Gadgets to the Internet of Things
Insight
Weiss: Software requiring a user manual lacks a modern user interface
“If it needs a manual, it's probably not a mod, doesn't have a modern UI, it probably doesn't have, it's not a consumerization of IT product”
Scott Weiss Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:31 a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
Insight
Weiss: Intuitive SaaS applications remove the need for data-entry intermediaries
“If you look at the new applications like Box, like Evernote, you know, a lot of these new applications are built for mobile. They're they'll, they're built for kind of a HTML user interface, and they're intuitive in the way that Tom was talking about, like Fac…”
Scott Weiss Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:06 a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools

The other half of the tape: Scott Weiss's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 3 episodes on the a16z Podcast. every mention, with the transcript →

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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 2 mentions in 1 episode

Appearances (3)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board Jan 2, 2019 11m
a16z Podcast | Gateway Gadgets to the Internet of Things Jan 2, 2019 7m
a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Interne Jan 2, 2019 8m
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