Shelley Archambault

1 appearance on the record.

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7statements → 6claims → 6claims resolved → 50%fully supported → 4.14/5average certainty → 1.43/5average debate potential →

3 supported 3 partly supported 0 contradicted how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

6 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved. 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 Shelley 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
Executive Search Firms Place a Minority of Board Members
“Ah, because yes, they're executive search firms, but actually they place the minority of board members.”
Shelley Archambault Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:31 a16z Podcast | Building a Better Board

How they sound: speaking style how? →

280 words/min while actually speaking · 6.4 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Shelley Archambault: 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: 2,326 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 Shelley Archambault said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported
Women Secured 30% of New Fortune 500 Board Seats
“30% of new, of the new directors last year were women, which was up from 24% the year before”
Shelley Archambault Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:42 a16z Podcast | Building a Better Board
Assertion Partly supported
Minority Representation Among New Fortune 500 Directors Dropped to 12%
“Just 12% of the new directors were minorities, and by that I mean African-American, Hispanic, or Asian. And that's down from 18% the year before.”
Shelley Archambault Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:06 a16z Podcast | Building a Better Board
Assertion Supported
Executive Search Firms Place a Minority of Board Members
“Ah, because yes, they're executive search firms, but actually they place the minority of board members.”
Shelley Archambault Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:31 a16z Podcast | Building a Better Board
Assertion Partly supported
Over Half of Fortune 500 Board Directors Are Retired
“More than half of the elected directors are retired.”
Shelley Archambault Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:08 a16z Podcast | Building a Better Board
Assertion Supported
39% of New Fortune 500 Directors Are First-Timers
“39% of new directors are actually first-time directors.”
Shelley Archambault Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:56 a16z Podcast | Building a Better Board
Assertion Supported
83% of Corporate Boards Seek Defined Skill Sets
“You know, 83% of boards actually look for a very defined set of skill set.”
Shelley Archambault Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:41 a16z Podcast | Building a Better Board
Disclosure
Nordstrom Board Pre-Read Deck Totaled 270 Pages
“My Nordstrom meeting that just happened, my deck, pre-read, 270 pages.”
Shelley Archambault Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:24 a16z Podcast | Building a Better Board

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | Building a Better Board Jan 2, 2019 10m
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