Scott Kupor

Director, United States Office of Personnel Management · 1 appearance on the record.

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Scott Kupor joined Andreessen Horowitz as its first employee at inception in 2009, serving as Managing Partner. He oversaw its expansion from a $300 million fund to tens of billions in assets and currently serves as Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management.

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4 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

7 assertions · 3 opinions · 16 insights · 5 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 3 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 Scott 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
Median Time From Founding to IPO Has Doubled to 12 Years
“For the last 15 years, it's basically been 10 to 12 years, so we've almost doubled the time to stay private”
Scott Kupor Sep 2, 2019 ▶ 41:13 Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)

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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 Scott Kupor on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

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

Insight
Founders Should Pitch 'Conquer-The-World' Ambition Over Downside Risk Mitigation
“The reality is, we achieve diversification through our portfolio. I don't need an individual entrepreneur to achieve diversification for us. It's great to know that there's somebody out there who might buy it, but, like, none of us is playing for that outcome,…”
Scott Kupor Sep 2, 2019 ▶ 1:03:26 Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)
Insight
Building Professional Relationships Yields More Career Success Than Perfect Individual Work
“I think we often think about individual achievement as the pinnacle of career success, and I think the reality is look like more career success comes from getting an A on your job, but maybe the difference between an A plus or an A plus plus is actually not wo…”
Scott Kupor Sep 2, 2019 ▶ 1:05:15 Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
a16z Hosts Over 1,000 Corporate Executive Briefings Annually
“We do something here called an executive briefing where probably at least a thousand times a year we have executives from those companies come in, they spend a half a day or a day with us, and the point is for them to kind of get educated on the areas of Techn…”
Scott Kupor Sep 2, 2019 ▶ 16:42 Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)
Disclosure
Andreessen Horowitz Manages Approximately 150 Active Portfolio Companies
“On the active companies, about a 150 today, and We've either got a board seat or we've got some substantive investment. We have some seed investments that are smaller where we don't take board seats, but about a 150 active is what we're managing today.”
Scott Kupor Sep 2, 2019 ▶ 37:19 Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)
Assertion Supported
The US Has Over 800 Seed Venture Capital Firms
“The last number I saw was even more than I expected. Something like 800 Seed firms now in the U.S., which means funds that are probably a hundred million dollars in AUM or less”
Scott Kupor Sep 2, 2019 ▶ 42:18 Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)
Assertion Supported
US Public Companies Shrank by 50 Percent Over 20 Years
“It's a combination of the number of public companies shrinking by 50% over the last 20 years.”
Scott Kupor Sep 2, 2019 ▶ 48:29 Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)
Assertion Supported
US Venture Capital Absorbs $50 Billion Annually in LP Commitments
“Right now, you know, the industry's taking in 40, fifty billion a year roughly in the U.S. In terms of new LP commitments.”
Scott Kupor Sep 2, 2019 ▶ 59:57 Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07) Sep 2, 2019 49m
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