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Adrian Fenty

Founding Managing Partner, MaC Venture Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Adrian Fenty served as the 6th Mayor of Washington, D.C., leading major reforms in public education and city governance. He later transitioned into venture capital, advising Andreessen Horowitz and co-founding MaC Venture Capital.

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3 assertions · 2 opinions · 2 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is 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 Adrian 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
MaC Venture Capital raised largest first-time fund for majority Black group
“And so our fund was actually the biggest first time fund for a majority African-American group”
Adrian Fenty Aug 24, 2021 ▶ 5:34 Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty: Courage, Accountability, Better Schools, and Safer Cities · Joe Lonsdale

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Everything Adrian Fenty said on American Optimist that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
D.C. school reforms merely executed 15 years of ignored government reports
“We had, I had five reports that had been done over the last 15 years, which mapped out everything that needed to be done to change our school system for the kids who were in it. And the problem wasn't that people didn't know what to be done, is that no one had…”
Adrian Fenty Aug 24, 2021 ▶ 10:17 Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty: Courage, Accountability, Better Schools, and Safer Cities · Joe Lonsdale
Insight
Fenty: Education reform should fund visionary educators like venture-backed founders
“You know, you look for an amazing entrepreneur who has a great vision for the future. That's the same thing we look for in teachers and principals. If they have a great vision, if they know how to teach kids, let them run with it. You know, let them actually c…”
Adrian Fenty Aug 24, 2021 ▶ 14:12 Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty: Courage, Accountability, Better Schools, and Safer Cities · Joe Lonsdale
Insight
Fenty: Tech critics of San Francisco must stay and fix its problems
“If you're going to complain about, you know, the, you know, what's going on in San Francisco or California, then you should also be trying to do something about it in any way you can, but don't just complain that San Francisco has too much homelessness or Cali…”
Adrian Fenty Aug 24, 2021 ▶ 21:19 Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty: Courage, Accountability, Better Schools, and Safer Cities · Joe Lonsdale
Opinion
Fenty: Government lacks hard performance metrics that politicians actually meet
“And that's what we find missing from government too much is real hard for performance metrics that are actually met by the politicians.”
Adrian Fenty Aug 24, 2021 ▶ 8:39 Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty: Courage, Accountability, Better Schools, and Safer Cities · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fenty forbade 40 D.C. cabinet members from refusing school chancellor requests
“What we've told, Our cabinet, I had 40 cabinet members when I was mayor, was that the only way that they're, that they were not allowed to say no to the chancellor of the school system.”
Adrian Fenty Aug 24, 2021 ▶ 11:44 Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty: Courage, Accountability, Better Schools, and Safer Cities · Joe Lonsdale
Opinion
Silicon Valley represents the biggest business renaissance in world history
“I see it as the biggest renaissance for business, maybe in the history of the world, and that should and will include everybody.”
Adrian Fenty Aug 24, 2021 ▶ 23:53 Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty: Courage, Accountability, Better Schools, and Safer Cities · Joe Lonsdale
Disclosure
Fenty: MaC Venture Capital closed oversubscribed inaugural fund at $110M
“And then this fund, Mac Venture Capital, which we launched in 2019 and closed this year. We were only trying to raise a hundred million. We were oversubscribed and we, our legal close was one 10.”
Adrian Fenty Aug 24, 2021 ▶ 2:14 Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty: Courage, Accountability, Better Schools, and Safer Cities · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
MaC Venture Capital raised largest first-time fund for majority Black group
“And so our fund was actually the biggest first time fund for a majority African-American group”
Adrian Fenty Aug 24, 2021 ▶ 5:34 Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty: Courage, Accountability, Better Schools, and Safer Cities · Joe Lonsdale
Disclosure
Fenty: MaC Venture Capital invested in reusable rocket maker Stoke
“We've actually got a couple of investments now of companies that are disrupting space. You know, really, we've got a company called Stoke, which is actually building reusable rockets that you will be able to use almost every day, just like you use airplanes.”
Adrian Fenty Aug 24, 2021 ▶ 22:16 Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty: Courage, Accountability, Better Schools, and Safer Cities · Joe Lonsdale

The other half of the tape: Adrian Fenty's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 1 time in 1 episode on American Optimist. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Joe Lonsdale 1

Statements about Adrian Fenty, by other people (1)

Assertion Partly supported
Lonsdale: D.C. dramatically reduced violent crime under Mayor Fenty from 2007-2011
“Like one of the metrics you hit is you reduce violent crime dramatically from 2007, 2011.”
Joe Lonsdale Aug 24, 2021 ▶ 8:10 Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty: Courage, Accountability, Better Schools, and Safer Cities · Joe Lonsdale

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty: Courage, Accountability, Better Schools, and Safer Cities Aug 24, 2021 16m
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