Shan Sinha

Co-Founder and CEO, Canopy · 1 appearance on the record.

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Shan Sinha previously co-founded DocVerse, which was acquired by Google, and the video collaboration company Highfive, which was acquired by Dialpad. Today, he is the co-founder and CEO of Canopy and serves as a venture advisor at AI Fund.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 assertions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 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 Shan 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

Sinha: Internal study shows two-thirds of people prefer in-person meetings

“We ran a survey or we ran a study a couple of months back, and one of the things that we learned, I don't know if this is going to be a surprise to anybody, but it turns out two-thirds of people actually prefer in-person meetings over everything else.”

Shan Sinha Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:43 a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Sinha: Two-thirds of workers now work remotely

“You can just look at all the statistics, you know, companies are increasingly more distributed. Two thirds of workers are now working from remote locations, not going into the office.”

Shan Sinha Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:33 a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce

How they sound: speaking style how? →

261 words/min while actually speaking · 8.6 um and uh per 1k words · 10.8 false starts per 1k · 39.1% of pauses land inside a clause

No argument clarity score for Shan Sinha: only 2 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: 2,319 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 →

What they said4 Episodes1

Everything Shan Sinha said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Contradicted

Sinha: Two-thirds of workers now work remotely

“You can just look at all the statistics, you know, companies are increasingly more distributed. Two thirds of workers are now working from remote locations, not going into the office.”

Shan Sinha Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:33 a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sinha: Google hosted 20,000 daily video calls for 40,000 employees

“When we were at Google, I think we left right around the same time, but when we were at Google, we were around 40,000 people. Every single day, they would do 20,000 video calls. The average person used video one to two times a day”

Shan Sinha Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:03 a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce

Assertion Supported

Sinha: Internal study shows two-thirds of people prefer in-person meetings

Shan Sinha Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:43 a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce

Insight

Sinha: Mandatory video meetings reduce interpersonal hostility between teams

“As soon as you required all of their meetings to be done over video And, you know, the thing that made it work was, it was easy to you, all that kind of stuff. But as soon as you got everyone to be able to just plug in and use video, everything softened. Becau…”

Shan Sinha Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:11 a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce

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