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Brett Goldstein

Founder & CEO, Micro · 1 appearance on the record.

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Goldstein is the founder and CEO of Micro, an AI-powered email and CRM platform backed by venture firms including Andreessen Horowitz. He previously co-founded the founder community Launch House and its investment arm House Capital, following product and corporate development roles at Clearbit and Google.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 4 assertions · 7 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction 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 Brett 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
Goldstein: Clearbit Charges Up to $0.50 Per Contact Enrichment
“Clearbit and others cost like up to 50 cents per, per contact enrichment.”
Brett Goldstein Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 39:02 SaaS apps that will print profits

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Goldstein: Most employees spend their annual $2K–$3K L&D budget on conferences
“Conferences are actually where most people spend their learning and development budget at their companies. They're usually getting like two to 3000 dollars a year or something like that. These workers, these tech workers or any sort of worker, most of them spe…”
Brett Goldstein Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 15:15 SaaS apps that will print profits

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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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 Brett Goldstein on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Brett Goldstein said on the Startup Ideas Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Goldstein: Linear will replace Jira and Trello in large enterprises
“They are killing Trello. They're killing Jira. They're going to replace those in even large enterprises as well, and they didn't have to build the craziest, most advanced stuff.”
Brett Goldstein Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 47:09 SaaS apps that will print profits
Insight
Goldstein: Consumer Hangout Apps Consistently Fail Due to Negative Selection Bias
“It's an app to help you hang out with people when you're bored. And all of these apps have failed. Like all of them have failed. Like they just don't work. There's this negative selection bias where it's like the people who actually want to hang out are not th…”
Brett Goldstein Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 3:00 SaaS apps that will print profits
Insight
Goldstein: Any Industry Workflow Relying on Spreadsheets Is a Startup Opportunity
“Anytime you have any industry anywhere in the world where somebody is using a spreadsheet, it should be like, you know, a light bulb going off. There's like, this is a startup opportunity. There's countless startups that started as spreadsheets or took process…”
Brett Goldstein Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 4:55 SaaS apps that will print profits
Insight
Goldstein: Unbundling incumbents requires building for power-user niches
“The way you can be with any network is you carve off a section of it, of like extremely power users of some sort, some niche, and you build better features for them or something like that.”
Brett Goldstein Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 11:06 SaaS apps that will print profits
Assertion Contradicted
Goldstein: Most employees spend their annual $2K–$3K L&D budget on conferences
“Conferences are actually where most people spend their learning and development budget at their companies. They're usually getting like two to 3000 dollars a year or something like that. These workers, these tech workers or any sort of worker, most of them spe…”
Brett Goldstein Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 15:15 SaaS apps that will print profits
Insight
Goldstein: Dating app success comes from carving out niches, not mechanism
“The way that you would start a new dating app is you find a niche, you find a, an, a specific group of people, and then maybe there's some special mechanism, but the group of people matters more than the mechanism. Right? Any dating app you're on, like Raya is…”
Brett Goldstein Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 25:16 SaaS apps that will print profits
Insight
Goldstein: Direct Dating Apps Suffer from Negative Selection Bias
“The reason dating feels icky to people is the same reason why like the app that helps people hang out when they're bored doesn't work is because when it's too on the nose, you know, It's too direct, right? Like I am single. I'm on a dating app to date. There's…”
Brett Goldstein Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 33:41 SaaS apps that will print profits
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Goldstein: AI Data Enrichment Startups Quickly Reach $20K-$30K MRR
“I have friends who run, there are a handful of these startups that have popped up that do some sort of data enrichment. In the post AI world and they have gotten to, you know, 20, 30 K MRR pretty quickly just from basically selling CSVs.”
Brett Goldstein Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 40:01 SaaS apps that will print profits
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Goldstein: Clearbit Data Accuracy Jumped From 30% to 95% With LLMs
“So apparently when Clearbit added LLMs to their whole mix, they had data points that went from being like, 30% accurate to like, 95% accurate.”
Brett Goldstein Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 40:37 SaaS apps that will print profits
Insight
Goldstein: Core enterprise workflow tools must be rebuilt every 5-10 years
“All these like core workflow tools, Need to get rebuilt every five to 10 years. Why is that? Because the technology gets better, right? People all want, people always want the same thing. They want it to be beautiful. They want it to look like the tools that t…”
Brett Goldstein Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 46:13 SaaS apps that will print profits
Insight
Goldstein: Giving away valuable ideas signals self-confidence and status
“Yeah, I mean, I think it's also just the most, the best expression of your self-confidence and status to give away stuff for free that is, like, extremely valuable, or you could benefit immensely from keeping it to yourself.”
Brett Goldstein Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 2:06 SaaS apps that will print profits
Assertion Supported
Goldstein: Clearbit Charges Up to $0.50 Per Contact Enrichment
“Clearbit and others cost like up to 50 cents per, per contact enrichment.”
Brett Goldstein Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 39:02 SaaS apps that will print profits

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
SaaS apps that will print profits Jul 1, 2024 30m
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