Wesley Chan

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, FPV Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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During his early career at Google, Chan founded Google Analytics and Google Voice and helped launch Google Ventures' seed investing program. He later co-founded FPV Ventures after investing at GV and Felicis Ventures, backing companies including Canva, Plaid, and Gusto.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 1 names 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 Wesley 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

Chan: Tens of thousands of workers use Guild at Walmart and Disney

“She's done it with Disney. She's done it with Walmart. There are tens of thousands of students, and it's still early days, but tens of thousands of students taking advantage of this employee benefit and re-skilling themselves”

Wesley Chan Sep 3, 2021 ▶ 41:31 Sal Churi, Keri Findley, and Wesley Chan: Innovators Changing Our World Right Now · Joe Lonsdale

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Chan: Early Gmail invitations were selling for up to $2,000 on eBay

“Some of these invites, I remember, were selling for one or 2000 dollars off eBay for people to get on this Gmail service, because they wanted their two gigabytes of, like, email, right?”

Wesley Chan Sep 3, 2021 ▶ 34:40 Sal Churi, Keri Findley, and Wesley Chan: Innovators Changing Our World Right Now · Joe Lonsdale

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Wesley Chan on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

What they said3 Episodes1

Everything Wesley Chan 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

Chan: Canva is among the most valuable private companies led by a woman

“I think it's one of the most valuable companies run by a woman entrepreneur that's private today, and then, you know, I think it's one of the fastest growing private companies on the planet.”

Wesley Chan Sep 3, 2021 ▶ 35:46 Sal Churi, Keri Findley, and Wesley Chan: Innovators Changing Our World Right Now · Joe Lonsdale