ACT

product on 15 shows · 10 statements across 7 episodes · said 66 times in 31 episodes since 2018

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a16z Assertion Partly supported
Andreessen: Standardized college admission exams correlate highly with IQ tests
“Those tests from a, just a clinical standpoint, like those in sort of clinical psychology psychometrics, those tests are all proxies for an IQ test. Those are all sort of, those are all sort of roughly equivalent to just a straight IQ test. Highly correlated t…”
Marc Andreessen Jan 13, 2024 ▶ 23:17 Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
ALL-IN Prediction Held up
Sacks: UC system will never bring back SAT or ACT requirements
“And the University of California system has now abandoned the SAT and ACT. So they temporarily got rid of those requirements during the pandemic, but now they've used it as an excuse. They've never wasted a crisis. And now they say they're not bringing back th…”
David Sacks May 22, 2021 ▶ 32:01 E33: Apple’s hypocrisy, America fails math, crypto’s regulatory correction, Clubhouse, UFOs & more
Gustafson: Acknowledging intrusive thoughts without fixating defuses burnout
“One of the things that I remember that I learned as part of ACT is if you're having an intrusive or disturbing thought, if you're, let's say, feeling burnt out and like, I cannot go on another day. Work is so grueling. This is terrible. You can literally take …”
Jenny Gustafson Jan 6, 2021 ▶ 10:23 The Working Mom Gap Nobody Talks About (It's Not the Glass Ceiling)
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Neeleman scored a 16 on the ACT with an 8 on English
“I, when I took the ACT test, I think I got 16 on it, and my advisor said, look, you got eight on the English section, and if you had just put C on any question, you would have got 12.”
David Neeleman Feb 13, 2020 ▶ 2:26 Live From The HIBT Summit: David Neeleman of JetBlue Airways
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Sullivan: ACT! Sold to Symantec in 1993 and Bought Back in 1999
“We sold it to Symantec in 1993 and then after I started SalesLogix and we went public, we actually bought it back from Symantec in 1999.”
Pat Sullivan Apr 21, 2019 ▶ 1:03 1366 ACT! and SalesLogix Founders New Company Hits $1m in ARR
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Contradicted
Pat Sullivan: ACT! ultimately sold more than 30 million copies
“There were times during Act which, you know, ultimately sold thirty million plus copies that we thought we were gonna fail.”
Pat Sullivan Apr 21, 2019 ▶ 14:02 1366 ACT! and SalesLogix Founders New Company Hits $1m in ARR
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
SwiftPage had around 60,000 customers in May 2015
“Back then, this is around May of 2015. Back then, we had about 60,000 customers, and we were like, how do we convert 60,000 customers from using, you know, like, desktop license software and maybe spending some money on maintenance to an open cloud-enabled pla…”
John Oechsle Dec 4, 2018 ▶ 12:50 1228 SwiftPage ACT CEO "We're 1-2 Years Away from $100M in ARR"
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Only 42% of SwiftPage's 60,000 Legacy Customers Paid Maintenance in 2015
“Think about those 60,000 customers back then, they were buying a license and only 42% of them were paying maintenance.”
John Oechsle Dec 4, 2018 ▶ 15:49 1228 SwiftPage ACT CEO "We're 1-2 Years Away from $100M in ARR"
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Swiftpage bought $70M of revenue while making only $4.5M
“So we're just a little four and a half million dollar company, and we bought like seventy million dollars worth of revenue.”
John Oechsle Aug 27, 2018 ▶ 5:10 1129 He Bought $70m Of ARR w/ Other Peoples Money, Kept 60%+ Equity for Common
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Swiftpage reached over 85,000 customers and 300,000 cloud users
“We had at that point, we had 65,000 customers on, around the world. In, in 2015. [411] SPEAKER_05: Okay. [412] John Oechsle: we now have over 85,000 customers, over 300,000 users, all on our you know, cloud, open cloud-enabled platform paying subscription you …”
John Oechsle Aug 27, 2018 ▶ 6:43 1129 He Bought $70m Of ARR w/ Other Peoples Money, Kept 60%+ Equity for Common

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