Stacy Brown-Philpott

COO, TaskRabbit · 1 appearance on the record.

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Stacy Brown-Philpot is the COO of TaskRabbit. She was recently appointed to the board of directors at HP Inc.

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266 words/min while actually speaking · 6.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Stacy Brown-Philpott: 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: 3,175 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 Stacy Brown-Philpott said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Brown-Philpott: Board interviews assume operational competence rather than testing it
“It's not a job interview. So you're not going into these meetings trying to convince people that you're a good operator. The reason that you're at the meeting is because you're a good operator, and they've already decided that is true.”
Stacy Brown-Philpott Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:18 a16z Podcast | Getting That First Board Seat
Disclosure
Brown-Philpott required target board CEOs to have deep internal company roots
“One of my criteria was not to have somebody that was a first time CEO, but if they were a first time CEO, I wanted the person to have worked at that company for a while to have relationships.”
Stacy Brown-Philpott Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:19 a16z Podcast | Getting That First Board Seat
Insight
Brown-Philpott: A COO must maintain steady leadership through startup volatility
“And as the COO, my job is to sort of be steady. Like, I can't do the thrills, because the team needs me to present, you know, a face of, even if the high is high, right, there's going to be some lows, and we can get through it. And even when the lows are low, …”
Stacy Brown-Philpott Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:12 a16z Podcast | Getting That First Board Seat
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Brown-Philpott: Corporate boards are prioritizing sitting executives over retired CEOs
“And I see a trend towards, actually, no, we want some people on the board who are seated executives right now, and we know they won't have as much time as someone who is retired, but they're going to bring real-time information, real-time perspective.”
Stacy Brown-Philpott Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:16 a16z Podcast | Getting That First Board Seat
Insight
Brown-Philpott: Board recruitment relies on specific checklist fit over personal merit
“The board has a checklist, and that list is like, this is what we're looking for. This is what we have on the board. This is the makeup of the board today, and here are the things we're going to look for in this seat. And in general, either you fit it or you d…”
Stacy Brown-Philpott Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:48 a16z Podcast | Getting That First Board Seat
Disclosure
Brown-Philpott: HP Board Seat Came From an Unsolicited Conference Referral
“It turns out that this, the HP board came through initially a referral. I was at a conference a year ago, and I was networking with somebody, not about being on a board, but mentioned to this person that I was interested in public company boards and never knew…”
Stacy Brown-Philpott Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:26 a16z Podcast | Getting That First Board Seat

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | Getting That First Board Seat Jan 2, 2019 14m
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