Sondre Rasch

Co-founder and CEO, SafetyWing · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sondre Rasch is the co-founder and CEO of SafetyWing, which builds insurance and global safety net products for remote workers. Previously, he served as a social policy advisor for the government of Norway and co-founded Superside.

6statements → 5claims → 1claims resolved → 3.5/5average certainty → 2/5average debate potential → 4.2/5argument clarity · the sources →

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 3 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is 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 Sondre 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

Rasch: 50 countries have implemented digital nomad visas since 2020

“We didn't invent it, but we've been this like promoter of this nomad visa thing, which the first country implemented it in 2020 Barbados. Now, 50 countries have implemented it.”

Sondre Rasch Dec 20, 2022 ▶ 1:06:17 Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

4.2 / 5 directness 4.6 · coherence 4.2 · precision 3.9 · compression 3.6

answered every one of 8 assessed questions directly

This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →

How they sound: speaking style how? →

269 words/min while actually speaking · 33 um and uh per 1k words · 15.8 false starts per 1k · 26.6% of pauses land inside a clause

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,973 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 said6 Episodes1

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

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Rasch: Fully remote companies will outcompete non-remote rivals for global talent

“The ability to hire the best in the world that is the kind of economic thing that I think will, you know, ensure that the companies that are remote will outcompete those who aren't, because they will essentially hire the best in the world versus, you know, the…”

Sondre Rasch Dec 20, 2022 ▶ 6:11 Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)

Disclosure

Rasch: SafetyWing pays all employees a global flat salary regardless of location

“Well, so we have opted for a flat, you know, the argument for it would go something like this, you know, remote has made the world into a global labor market and most people just haven't realized that yet... So we say we chose to kind of like skip to the end o…”

Sondre Rasch Dec 20, 2022 ▶ 45:56 Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Rasch: Global compensation for top talent will converge on Bay Area rates

“So that might be what will happen, that we will converge on the top talent on, on the Bay Area salary.”

Sondre Rasch Dec 20, 2022 ▶ 48:55 Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Rasch: SafetyWing employs 180 people across 70 different countries

“We're a 180 people from 70 different countries.”

Sondre Rasch Dec 20, 2022 ▶ 19:03 Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Rasch: Most SafetyWing health insurance sign-ups previously had no health insurance

“When we ask people who, you know, sign up for our health insurance, what they had before the most common answer is still nothing.”

Sondre Rasch Dec 20, 2022 ▶ 34:27 Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing)