The Exchanges

Every argument clarity score on this site is built from rows on this page. Each question and answer was assessed with names hidden, the host's own answers included, on four things from 1 to 5: directness (does it answer the question asked), coherence (do the ideas follow), precision (concrete details and clear references), compression (says a lot per word). The weighted mix (30/30/25/15) is the exchange score. A person's published score averages their exchange scores on raw tape only, at least 8 of them, shrunk toward the cohort mean. Full method →

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 5 5.00

Q Now this, you don't all have a, you know, rosy stories on all your startup ventures. Cause the last imagine on the show is probably four years ago. You were at a company called inspire beats. What happened there?

A Inspire beats was, it was a lead generation startups to give everybody a little backstory where we were selling leads every month. Um, and that was doing really well. It was over a million a month. Um, very, very quickly. We were getting like all these companies in Silicon Valley. Um, the problem with it though, is it wasn't a SAS, right? It was an agency which required A lot of work on the back end to fulfill. Um, and I, I wrote about this in the book, actually the founder, uh, that was running everything, you know, cause I, I was a minority partner. I had 10% of this company. The founder was handling the accounting. He was handling the books. He was handling the production. He was handling even a lot of the sales stuff. Um, he went fully, like fully insane, uh, to the point where he was committed to a mental hospital. And, uh, two, three months of nobody running the company and me not having access to bank accounts to refund customers, me not having access to anything, um, would be enough to basically ruin the company's rep and, and, and shut it down. So.

AI assessment note: “the point where he was committed to a mental hospital. And, uh, two, three months”

Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85

Q me through this. You have a great idea as a marketer, you know how to do distribution and you can't get 97,000 YouTube subs and write a book without understanding distribution. How does a guy like you go convince an engineer to work with you without the engineer going, ah, this guy's a skimmy sales guy. You know, he's not a serious dude. What are we going to do here?

A So I was really addicted to Twitter, still really addicted to Twitter. Um, and I reached out to, uh, this guy, Amit Mehta, who is, he runs a venture fund, but instead of investing money, they invest, uh, tech. And I've heard this a million times, but these guys are actually serious. Their SaaS portfolio makes about six million a year, you know, over a couple of companies. And so, um, I wanted to interview him. So we went down to Bangalore in India, right now I'm in Delhi, went down to Bangalore and we're, we're at his house on the golf course. And he was just talking about, like, how he wanted to be Sujan Patel, and I'm like, you know what would make you Sujan Patel, bro? We had a cold email tool. He was just hyped as shit, and then we made it happen.

AI assessment note: “I'm like, you know what would make you Sujan Patel, bro? We had a cold email tool.”

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