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Chris Sacca

Managing Partner, Lowercarbon Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Chris Sacca is the founder of Lowercase Capital, known for early-stage investments in tech companies such as Twitter, Uber, Instagram, Stripe, and Twilio. Alongside his wife Crystal English Sacca, he currently leads Lowercarbon Capital, investing in hard-tech climate solutions and carbon removal.

34statements → 9claims → 4claims resolved → 25%fully supported → 3.91/5average certainty → 2.35/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 8said about them ↓

1 supported 2 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 4 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 7 assertions · 4 opinions · 9 insights · 12 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 4 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 Chris 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
Sacca: Google published verbatim executive meeting notes for employees to subscribe to
“They were wildly transparent and their executive meetings, they had a note taker who would take the notes and then you could subscribe to the notes from that meeting. They would be published after the end of the meeting. And you could see almost like a script,…”
Chris Sacca Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 58:20 Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up
Sacca: GPT-5 will train in 2023 and be 6-8x better than GPT-4
“GPT five will be trained this year, and it'll be six to eight times better than four, maybe, maybe more.”
Chris Sacca Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 1:12:10 Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
0% certainty 3
67% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

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 Chris Sacca on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Chris Sacca said on Capital Allocators that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Sacca: Founders should evaluate VC dilution exactly like granting employee stock options
“Every time a founder is considering taking money from a venture capitalist, there is the same process they should use when they're considering hiring an employee to whom they're going to give stock options. Every single time you're making the calculus is the a…”
Chris Sacca Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 32:09 Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
Insight
Sacca: Investors cannot back founders without knowing their personal scorecard
“There is no doubt sharing space with people and breaking bread reveals a lot about who they are. What drives them? And you can't really back somebody until you know their ambition and what's on their personal scorecard.”
Chris Sacca Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 43:51 Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacca: Lowercarbon Portfolio Company Reached $120M Run Rate with 60% Margins
“We have a company that In the year, maybe three of the company was doing a hundred and twenty million dollar run rate selling a commodity, but because they make it with enzymes instead of oil and gas, they have 60% margins.”
Chris Sacca Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 48:21 Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
Disclosure
Sacca: Lowercarbon opens its investment committee and memos to all employees
“The one all hands meeting we have is everyone in the company is invited to our investment committee. The lead on the deal or the co-leads on the deal present the deal, but everyone in the company has access to everything we've done. All the diligence, the deal…”
Chris Sacca Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 58:54 Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
Disclosure
Sacca: Lowercarbon team members are instructed to accept podcast invitations
“I also have this rule. If you get invited on a podcast, accept it, go on the pod. And as long as you say something that is true and authentic to yourself and accurately represents the values of our company, then you will not get in trouble for saying what you …”
Chris Sacca Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 1:00:03 Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
Insight
Sacca: Investors must credit market timing on upside, question downside risk
“When things are going up, it's easy to convince yourself you're a genius. And when things go down, it's easy to tell yourself that it was bad luck. And so much of what we do for a living is inverting that. And when things are going up, giving yourself, hey, yo…”
Chris Sacca Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 15:40 Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Sacca: Speedera rejected $950M buyout before raising at $30M valuation
“This is a company that had turned down a nine hundred and fifty million dollar acquisition offer because it wasn't a billion dollars. And eight months later, I was raising at a thirty million pre for that company.”
Chris Sacca Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 22:18 Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
Disclosure
Sacca: Financed early angel investment in Photobucket using credit card checks
“At Google, I personally did the photo bucket investment using credit card checks.”
Chris Sacca Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 29:06 Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
Disclosure
Sacca discloses he and wife Crystal are LPs in over 100 funds
“Crystal, my wife and I, and we're business partners and we have an informal fund of funds. We're LPs and more than a hundred things.”
Chris Sacca Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 37:12 Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
Assertion Supported
Sacca: Google published verbatim executive meeting notes for employees to subscribe to
“They were wildly transparent and their executive meetings, they had a note taker who would take the notes and then you could subscribe to the notes from that meeting. They would be published after the end of the meeting. And you could see almost like a script,…”
Chris Sacca Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 58:20 Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)

The other half of the tape: Chris Sacca's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 7 times in 2 episodes on Capital Allocators. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

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Statements about Chris Sacca, by other people (1)

Assertion Supported
Batnick: Chris Sacca Passed on Airbnb, Snapchat, and Dropbox
“But he actually said no to three of the best potential investing opportunities. I think it was Airbnb, Snapchat, and Dropbox. It's not like they came to him. He looked at them and said, nah, no, no, no.”
Michael Batnick Oct 8, 2018 ▶ 23:44 Michael Batnick - The Best Investors and Their Biggest Mistakes (Capital Allocators, EP.71)

Every mention by year

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2024 3 mentions in 1 episode
2018 4 mentions in 1 episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321) Jun 12, 2023 1h 3m
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