Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
CEO, Xero · 1 appearance on the record.
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Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is a technology executive who previously served as President of StubHub and President of Google’s Asia Pacific & Latin America operations. She also founded theBoardlist and Joyus, co-founded Yodlee, and authored the book Choose Possibility.
2 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
3 assertions · 1 opinion · 4 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 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 Sukhinder 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
Expressed certainty vs assessment result
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
How they sound: speaking style how? →
283 words/min while actually speaking · 17.2 um and uh per 1k words · 7.2 false starts per 1k · 17.2% of pauses land inside a clause
No argument clarity score for Sukhinder Singh Cassidy: only 6 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. Their coarse estimate from 6 raw tape exchanges is ≈4.5/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small.
Measured by listening to the audio itself: 6,668 words across 2 episodes 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 Sukhinder Singh Cassidy said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| a16z Podcast | Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't | Jan 2, 2019 | 13m |