Susan Rice

Visiting Fellow, Stanford University · 1 appearance on the record.

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Susan Rice is the only person to have served as both U.S. National Security Advisor and Director of the Domestic Policy Council. She previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and authored the memoir Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For.

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2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 assertions · 3 opinions · 6 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 2 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 Susan 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

Rice: China uses human plants and cyber tools to steal US IP

“Well, China is not only using human assets, as you just described plants or moles, but they're also using cyber tools, as we know, to steal intellectual property and exfiltrate data.”

Susan Rice Jan 27, 2020 ▶ 39:12 The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization

How they sound: speaking style how? →

224 words/min while actually speaking · 17.1 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Susan Rice: 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: 5,791 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 said13 Episodes1

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

Opinion

Rice: US tech sector needs a revolution of patriotism against China

“And I think, quite honestly, we really need a revolution of patriotism in business as well as in the tech sector, but as well as across the greater American public to recognize that, you know, we are unfortunately in a kind of Cold War type challenge.”

Susan Rice Jan 27, 2020 ▶ 41:11 The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization

Opinion

Rice: Tech companies accommodating China while spurning US defense are upside down

“To the extent that, that many companies are making compromises and accommodations to Open the Chinese market and expand their foothold in the Chinese market, doing things that quite frankly, in my judgment, advantage China in this competition, but then won't b…”

Susan Rice Jan 27, 2020 ▶ 45:06 The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization

Insight

Rice: Prioritizing being liked over being respected diminishes leadership performance

“If I had to choose, if I couldn't have both, I'd rather be respected than liked. And that was because I realized that sometimes, and I, this is sort of reflected in the quote you read, sometimes by being overly concerned about being nice, particularly women wh…”

Susan Rice Jan 27, 2020 ▶ 30:53 The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization

Opinion

Rice: Ambassador Richard Holbrooke was a talented diplomat but a classic bully

“And I realized, you know, I was dealing with very talented, you know, diplomat on the one hand, but a classic bully on the other.”

Susan Rice Jan 27, 2020 ▶ 35:10 The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization

Assertion Supported

Rice: China uses human plants and cyber tools to steal US IP

“Well, China is not only using human assets, as you just described plants or moles, but they're also using cyber tools, as we know, to steal intellectual property and exfiltrate data.”

Susan Rice Jan 27, 2020 ▶ 39:12 The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization

Insight

Rice: Treat discrimination as someone else's insecurity, not your self-doubt

“The way to deal with that is, in essence, a psychological jujitsu, to let that be somebody else's concern, not yours, and to try not to expend your precious mental energy doubting yourself.”

Susan Rice Jan 27, 2020 ▶ 11:22 The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization

Insight

Rice: Crisis leaders need strategic compartmentalization to avoid being emotionally crushed

“And I think, you know, you have to have some measure of that wherever it comes from to work on those kinds of issues and not, you know, be crushed, for example, by the weight of the humanitarian crisis in Syria.”

Susan Rice Jan 27, 2020 ▶ 17:28 The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization

Insight

Rice: Genuine power comes from inspiring others rather than being hard

“I think being powerful means not being hard. It means being to the greatest extent possible, somebody who can lead and inspire and motivate others.”

Susan Rice Jan 27, 2020 ▶ 28:00 The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization

Insight

Rice: Supporting employees' personal priorities empowers teams and builds organizational strength

“If you had to go to do what was vitally important to you as a human being, then that was what was most important. Not least because you weren't going to be effective anyway, if you were stressing out about this, but also because it's a way of saying we care ab…”

Susan Rice Jan 27, 2020 ▶ 29:39 The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Rice: China coordinates government, industry, and academia to advance AI

“The Chinese, as you all know, are using all elements of their capacity, government, The private sector, academia, in complete unison to advance their capacities, whether in biotech, or AI, or you name it.”

Susan Rice Jan 27, 2020 ▶ 42:41 The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization

Insight

Rice: Crisis leaders must balance team compassion with strict execution focus

“And so being a compassionate leader that recognizes that you need to provide space for people to work through their pain and cope with it while trying to keep them on the focus to be effective. That was where I was lacking at age 32, and I hope by, say, 52, I'…”

Susan Rice Jan 27, 2020 ▶ 19:50 The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Rice: Netflix views its primary strategic growth path as international expansion

“I think that the main thing that I bring is a deep knowledge and understanding about many, many different parts of the world and the international landscape to a company like Netflix that is increasingly growing globally and views its, you know, its path forwa…”

Susan Rice Jan 27, 2020 ▶ 46:23 The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization

Assertion Supported

Rice became youngest Assistant Secretary of State at age 32

“I'd started the job having worked at the White House previously. I was 32 years old and not only the youngest person by far among the people who worked with me and under me but I was also the mother of a three-month-old breastfeeding son”

Susan Rice Jan 27, 2020 ▶ 2:19 The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization	Jan 27, 2020	34m

Susan Rice

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