Ted Ullyot

Head of Policy Team, a16z · 4 appearances on the record.

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14statements → 11claims → 2claims resolved → 3.57/5average certainty → 2.29/5average debate potential →

2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 9 not checkable as stated how the 11 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

6 predictions · 5 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 11 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 9 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 Ted 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

Prediction Held up
Ullyot: The incoming Republican-led FCC will massively modify net neutrality rules
“So it's been a Democrat commission, Democrat-dominated, three-two commission, and now it's going to flip and be three-two Republican, and the FCC series of Rules about net neutrality will, at minimum, be massively modified by the incoming administration.”
Ted Ullyot Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:57 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech

How they sound: speaking style how? →

249 words/min while actually speaking · 4.3 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Ted Ullyot: 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 6,109 words across 4 episodes, but every recording we have of Ted Ullyot is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

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

Opinion
Ullyot: Peter Thiel's role in the Trump transition was invaluable for tech
“The role that Peter Thiel has played for tech has been invaluable for tech in that room. It's a voice. It's a very respected voice within that team.”
Ted Ullyot Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 31:40 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Younger Supreme Court justices drive updates to tech legal doctrines
“When you look at some of those decisions where the court and certain justices seem to be reconsidering these settled doctrines, it's not exclusively the younger members, but it's predominantly the younger members.”
Ted Ullyot Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:50 a16z Podcast | Tech Policy and the Courts
Prediction Held up
Ullyot: The incoming Republican-led FCC will massively modify net neutrality rules
“So it's been a Democrat commission, Democrat-dominated, three-two commission, and now it's going to flip and be three-two Republican, and the FCC series of Rules about net neutrality will, at minimum, be massively modified by the incoming administration.”
Ted Ullyot Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:57 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tech encryption legislation confounds traditional political party lines
“It's an issue that is, it's one of those that actually that we talked about the outset of one that's, it's not bipartisan, but it confounds partisan lines. You have Democrats on both sides, Republicans on both sides of that issue, and it's not clear where that…”
Ted Ullyot Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:37 a16z Podcast | Tech Policy and the Courts
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ullyot: Feinstein and Burr are the leading Congressional opponents of encryption
“You had, until now, the leading proponents of backdoors, let's say the leading opponents on the Hill, of encryption have been Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican.”
Ted Ullyot Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:15 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ullyot: Major tech policy issues are decided locally or internationally, not federally
“Another point is a lot of the tech policy issues that people think about today that are the headline issues in the world of tech policy are ones that are decided much more the state and local government issue or international rather than U S federal.”
Ted Ullyot Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:44 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ullyot: Federal deregulation will shift tech policy authority to state governments
“On balance, there'll be fewer instances in which a federal regulation preempts to set aside and overrule a state law or to obviate the need for a state law. So you'll have more opportunities for state legislatures and governors, just state governments generall…”
Ted Ullyot Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:09 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
Insight
Ullyot: Regulators reflexively force new tech into legacy regulatory boxes
“They're going to try to channel a new technology into an existing box to impose existing regulations, whereas what we and most entrepreneurs want to see is, hey, it's still early days in this technology. Don't jump in and assume that this is, that, that, that …”
Ted Ullyot Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:36 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
Insight
Ullyot: States tend to be laissez-faire while cities are regulatory prescriptive
“And I think generally speaking, you're going to find states being much more laissez-faire and cities being prescriptive.”
Ted Ullyot Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:12 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ullyot: Corporate tax repatriation will drive tech M&A and R&D
“Laws will be changed to allow that money to be repatriated at lower tax rates. It'll be attractive to, for American companies to bring that money back. And one potential outcome of that is a very good thing for tech in particular, which would be a lot of, Larg…”
Ted Ullyot Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:14 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ullyot: U.S. trade restrictions will hit physical goods, not software
“I think most of the impact as I see it of the trade talk would be on physical goods rather than software, especially when it's delivered no longer by, you know, long, long ago, you know, when it was, you could stop a shipment of discs at the border. That was o…”
Ted Ullyot Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:16 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
Assertion Supported
Ullyot: EFF opposed TPP IP rules over concerns for global web development
“That was a place where a very influential Silicon Valley voice, that of the EFF, was highly skeptical of the Trans-Pacific Partnership because the TPP, you know, there, there's a push by American intellectual, intellectual property owners To make sure that the…”
Ted Ullyot Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:54 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ullyot: Congress and Trump may substantially rein in or eliminate the CFPB
“Now that you have a change of administration, it's conceivable that the Congress and President Trump will substantially rein in the CFPB, if not eliminate it altogether.”
Ted Ullyot Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 34:29 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ullyot: FDA under Trump will speed up trial approvals for healthcare tech
“Presumably will be an FDA that'll be more likely to approve experimentation and special trials to get beneficial drugs and technologies out into the market sooner.”
Ted Ullyot Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 36:52 a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech

Appearances (4)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | Of Governors and Mayors, and Tech Policy Jan 2, 2019 3m
a16z Podcast | Tech Policy and the Courts Jan 2, 2019 5m
a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech Jan 2, 2019 14m
a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker Jan 2, 2019 6m

Played on the show (1)

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EpisodeDateOn tapeWhat it is
a16z Podcast | What's Next for Technology and National Security? Jan 2, 2019 44s clip played
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