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Sid Gorham

Former Co-founder & CEO, Granular · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sid Gorham co-founded the farm management software company Granular and previously served as co-founder and COO of OpenTable. He also served as CEO of Telephia and later led Corteva's Digital Business Platform.

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2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 2 assertions · 2 opinions · 4 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed. 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 Sid 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
Gorham: Most American farms, even large ones, are family run
“Most farms in America are family run businesses. Even the very biggest farms are typically family run businesses.”
Sid Gorham Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:31 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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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

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

Opinion
Gorham: Farmers are early tech adopters with a hacker mindset
“And I actually think they're early adopters of technologies and in many ways have kind of a hacker mindset.”
Sid Gorham Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:47 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm
Insight
Gorham: Farmers resist software risk because they get only 40 crop cycles
“You get one chance or 40 chances in your whole career to produce a crop. And you, you're not gonna just take a flyer on Some guy with a shiny software package who says this can help. I can try in my business, I can try Salesforce and if it doesn't work, I'll t…”
Sid Gorham Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:28 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm
Opinion
Sid Gorham: Climate Adaptation in Farming Requires Market-Based Solutions
“I think the only way agriculture evolves with the pressure of global warming is through those types of market-based solutions, and that, that requires farmers know, know their business.”
Sid Gorham Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:54 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm
Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2020
Gorham: US farming population will drop from two percent to one percent
“It used to be that a hundred percent of the country farmed and now two percent of the country farms, and it's going to be one percent before we know it, right?”
Sid Gorham Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:36 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm
Insight
Gorham: Farms should optimize for dollar yield over crop volume
“We want them focused on their dollar yield, not just on their bushel or, you know, pound or ton yield, because really you want farms to be very, very careful about how they use resources and make sure they're only using resources that, that generate profit for…”
Sid Gorham Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:57 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm
Assertion Supported
Gorham: Most American farms, even large ones, are family run
“Most farms in America are family run businesses. Even the very biggest farms are typically family run businesses.”
Sid Gorham Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:31 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm
Insight
Gorham: Software adoption improves businesses by forcing process formalization
“Often what happens when you adopt software is it formalizes your process and makes you a little bit, you know, better run business, you know, above and beyond the impact of the software.”
Sid Gorham Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:12 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm
Insight
Gorham: Farmers adopt new technology by A/B testing on small plots
“The classic way of adopting technology and farming is I'm not going to put this on the whole farm. I'll try it on. 10 of my thousand acres and we'll, we'll sort of AB test that way. That's been the traditional way that farmers have adopted new seeds or new, yo…”
Sid Gorham Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:00 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm
Assertion Supported
Sid Gorham: Australia Operates a Fully Developed Water Rights Trading Market
“If you look at Australia, that's a very Hostile farming environment from a water perspective, and they have a fully developed trading system for water so that if farmer A doesn't use all his water, he can sell it to farmer B through this market.”
Sid Gorham Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:19 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm Jan 2, 2019 6m
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