Susan Plageman
Former President, WME Fashion · 1 appearance on the record.
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Susan Plagemann is a publishing executive who served as vice president and publisher of Vogue and chief business officer of Condé Nast's Style Division. She later headed WME Fashion, overseeing agencies such as IMG Models and The Wall Group, following earlier publisher roles at Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire.
1 supported 2 partly supported 0 contradicted how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
3 assertions · 1 opinion · 4 insights · 1 disclosure · 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 Susan argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.
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? →
213 words/min while actually speaking · 16.9 um and uh per 1k words
No argument clarity score for Susan Plageman: 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: 2,729 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 Susan Plageman 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Digital Branding: Lessons from Vogue, Monetizing Social, Creator Tips | Field Notes with C | May 3, 2023 | 16m |