Chris Lynch

Executive Chairman & CEO, AtScale · 1 appearance on the record.

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Chris Lynch is the Executive Chairman and CEO of AtScale, having previously served as CEO of Vertica Systems and Acopia Networks. He was later a partner at Atlas Venture and co-founded the venture capital firm Accomplice.

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4 predictions · 1 assertion · 2 opinions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 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.

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261 words/min while actually speaking · 13.8 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Chris Lynch: only 1 usable question→answer exchange on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,841 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

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Everything Chris Lynch said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion

Mega-fund VCs are just lottery ticket buyers lacking company-building skills

“And I think a lot of my contemporaries are lottery ticket buyers. And, you know, you have a three billion dollar fund, and you're just buying lottery tickets, and because you don't know how to build companies, your only value is paying more.”

Chris Lynch Jun 26, 2014 ▶ 18:20 Chris Lynch, Atlas Venture // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Big data infrastructure startups launching in 2014 will lack successful exits

“If you're coming out as a Vertica today, you're not going to have a happy ending.”

Chris Lynch Jun 26, 2014 ▶ 12:25 Chris Lynch, Atlas Venture // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Tech startup valuations in mid-2014 are unwarranted and unsustainable

“There's gonna be a lot of you know, broken hearts and tears are gonna fall, because I don't think that, that those valuations are warranted, are sustainable and that's too bad.”

Chris Lynch Jun 26, 2014 ▶ 19:03 Chris Lynch, Atlas Venture // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Opinion

Zynga is an analytics company masquerading as a gaming company

“Zynga is really an analytics company masquerading as a gaming company.”

Chris Lynch Jun 26, 2014 ▶ 4:40 Chris Lynch, Atlas Venture // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Telecoms will eventually offer free service in exchange for consumer data

“I think the day will come shortly where, you know, I've got the Verizon family plan, and I pay, you know, a lot of money for my cell phone. And they use my information, my family's information. They monetize that. I think the day will come that if Verizon and …”

Chris Lynch Jun 26, 2014 ▶ 9:47 Chris Lynch, Atlas Venture // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Disclosure

Atlas Venture will not fund startups rebuilding existing software platforms

“So for my money, I don't want you to spend my money rebuilding, even if it's a little bit better, something that's been built. I want you to spend my money taking something that's been built that's good and disintermediating those guys.”

Chris Lynch Jun 26, 2014 ▶ 12:03 Chris Lynch, Atlas Venture // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Consumers will eventually own and monetize their digital footprints

“As individuals, I think we're going to evolve to have enough sophistication that we own our digital footprint, and that we opt in to the economics Of the value of that.”

Chris Lynch Jun 26, 2014 ▶ 8:49 Chris Lynch, Atlas Venture // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Assertion Partly supported

Vertica was acquired for approximately $400 million

“We sold the company for about four hundred million dollars.”

Chris Lynch Jun 26, 2014 ▶ 4:18 Chris Lynch, Atlas Venture // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

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Chris Lynch, Atlas Venture // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)	Jun 26, 2014	18m

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