Jason Tan
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Sift · 1 appearance on the record.
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Jason Tan co-founded Sift in 2011, serving as CEO as the company built a machine learning-driven fraud prevention platform and reached unicorn status. In 2021, he transitioned to Executive Chairman and began writing about leadership, mental health, and founder burnout on his Substack newsletter, Scar Tissue.
2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
5 assertions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 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 Jason argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.
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304 words/min while actually speaking · 21.8 um and uh per 1k words
No argument clarity score for Jason Tan: no usable question→answer exchanges 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: 4,173 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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Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Jason Tan, Sift Science // Data Driven #26 // April 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) | May 27, 2014 | 17m |