Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

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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.

8statements → 3claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 4.25/5average certainty → 2.12/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated →

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

Assertion Supported
Cassidy: Only 25% of Surveyed VC Startup Boards Have Female Directors
“I think by our measure, at most, 22 to 25% of boards in the venture capitalists who are part or partners with us on the board list, about 25 gave us their data. And we also got data from one of our other sponsors, Wilson Sensini. Only about 25% of boards have …”
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:53 a16z Podcast | Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't

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

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 →

Opinion
Cassidy: Gender Is a Very Small Signal in Startup Success
“And the role that gender plays is quite frankly a very, very, very small signal. You know, a lot of different things it takes to be successful.”
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:00 a16z Podcast | Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't
Assertion Partly supported
Cassidy: 88% of Female Tech Founders Recommend Entrepreneurship
“Overall, 88% of the women surveyed said they would wholeheartedly recommend entrepreneurship.”
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:42 a16z Podcast | Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't
Insight
Cassidy: Diversity Initiatives Fail When Restricted to Women-Only Networks
“I think one of the biggest problems, I said this at TechCrunch Disrupt a couple weeks ago, people ask me, like, what is the problem with all of these efforts? I'm like, the problem is it's women for women, okay? I mean, it should be men and women for great tal…”
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:38 a16z Podcast | Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't
Assertion Supported
Cassidy: Only 25% of Surveyed VC Startup Boards Have Female Directors
“I think by our measure, at most, 22 to 25% of boards in the venture capitalists who are part or partners with us on the board list, about 25 gave us their data. And we also got data from one of our other sponsors, Wilson Sensini. Only about 25% of boards have …”
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:53 a16z Podcast | Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't
Insight
Cassidy: Startups Should Use One-Year Terms for Independent Board Directors
“In private companies, board seats are relatively low risk, high opportunity. If you are not so sure about someone, you set a board term. Like, in a startup, for somebody to give you a year of their time, by the way, that's plenty. You don't need to put somebod…”
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:28 a16z Podcast | Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't
Insight
Cassidy: Startup Boards Are Usually Too Late to Spot Internal Issues
“The one challenge of boards, and this is true, and this is one of the challenges performance wise, is boards are often too late to understand what's going on in a company, right?”
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:50 a16z Podcast | Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't
Insight
Cassidy: Tech Must Solve Board Diversity Before Advising Other Sectors
“So I don't think we can talk about what others should be doing if we don't solve it in our own industry, quite frankly.”
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:14 a16z Podcast | Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't
Assertion Supported
Cassidy: 55% of Female Tech Founders Come From Entrepreneurial Families
“Their family of origin, all at 55% came from entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial families.”
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:45 a16z Podcast | Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman: What Disruption Theory Is ... and Isn't Jan 2, 2019 13m
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