Code Cubitt

Co-Founder & Managing Director, Mistral Venture Partners · 1 appearance on the record.

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Code Cubitt is the co-founder and Managing Director of Mistral Venture Partners, a seed-stage venture capital firm. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Zephyr Technology prior to its acquisition by Medtronic.

32statements → 3claims → 3claims resolved → 33%fully supported → 3.91/5average certainty → 2.28/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated →

1 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 assertions · 2 opinions · 22 insights · 5 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved. 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 Code 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

Cubitt: Early-stage legal docs cost $20,000 to $30,000 per side

“It's probably 20 or 30,000 dollars on investor side and company side to prepare those docs.”

Code Cubitt Oct 27, 2020 ▶ 30:22 #95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Cubitt: Motorola Canned Its Venture Program During 2008 Crash

“Motorola canned the program effectively in during the oh eight crash.”

Code Cubitt Oct 27, 2020 ▶ 5:12 #95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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25% certainty 4

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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 Code Cubitt on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

What they said32 Episodes1

Everything Code Cubitt said on the Knowledge Project that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Cubitt: Series A Requires Proven Unit Economics Before Series B Scaling

“Going into the Series A, you have to have enough momentum and some early economic ratios, LTV to CAC, for example, to prove that there's a market for your product. And so the Series A investors want to talk to a lot more customers and validate that this thing …”

Code Cubitt Oct 27, 2020 ▶ 34:23 #95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical

Insight

Cubitt: Founding startup teams rarely finish, and that is appropriate

“Cause it's not always necessarily the team that starts doesn't necessarily finish. In fact, that's most appropriate.”

Code Cubitt Oct 27, 2020 ▶ 37:46 #95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical

Insight

Cubitt: Top CEOs anticipate changes 6 to 12 months ahead and pivot against consensus

“An A CEO is a, an executive who sees change coming, You know, six, nine, 12 months ahead of everybody else and has the ability to change course in, in the face of opposition from everybody else who is happy with the status quo.”

Code Cubitt Oct 27, 2020 ▶ 45:14 #95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical

Disclosure

Cubitt: I study startup failure clues more than success indicators

“So I listened to a lot of podcasts and books around startups, successes and failures, looking for clues on how companies can fail more than looking for success indicators.”

Code Cubitt Oct 27, 2020 ▶ 56:36 #95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical

Disclosure

Cubitt: 'Tell me about inception' is his first question in every interview

“My first question with every interview is tell me about inception. So why do you want to do this so badly that you're willing to break through walls and spend years in the cold as an unknown at the shot for the shot of being a successful entrepreneur?”

Code Cubitt Oct 27, 2020 ▶ 7:40 #95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical

Disclosure

Cubitt: Only 10 to 15 Percent of His Deals Exited Highly Positively

“To the extent that I've done 50 or 60 deals in my career, you know, there's been a lot of scars, a lot of learning, right? So probably only 10 or 15% of those have exited in a very positive way, and that's the reality of the economics.”

Code Cubitt Oct 27, 2020 ▶ 19:10 #95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical

Assertion Contradicted

Cubitt: Motorola Canned Its Venture Program During 2008 Crash

“Motorola canned the program effectively in during the oh eight crash.”

Code Cubitt Oct 27, 2020 ▶ 5:12 #95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical

Assertion Supported

Cubitt: Early-stage legal docs cost $20,000 to $30,000 per side

“It's probably 20 or 30,000 dollars on investor side and company side to prepare those docs.”

Code Cubitt Oct 27, 2020 ▶ 30:22 #95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
#95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical	Oct 27, 2020	42m

Code Cubitt

The record, in short

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Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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