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 →

Dan Bladen no published score: no usable exchanges on raw tape, and a fair score needs 8+ record → ← everyone

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 4 4.85

Q Wow. Okay, so what happened? It just lost for everybody? Shut it down?

A Yeah, I mean, so we didn't shut it down. We had, uh, tens of customers at the time. Still wasn't anywhere near, like, a million in ARR. We were always, like, the anointed winner of a market that was inevitable, but never actually happened. So it very much felt like a vitamin, not a painkiller, if I'm honest with you, Nathan, uh, which is very different to Cadence today. I lost a bit of hair during it, but it was fun, but we, we had, uh, our biggest line of business was with offices, so we're fortunate. Accenture were customers, Okta were customers, Uber were piloting with us, and this was the time of agile working was a phrase, so basically you could pick up your laptop and work anywhere in the office, and so Cadence, uh, Chargify rather, we have a swear jar every time I misname it, and you could wirelessly recharge all around the office, right, and so, um, this is March, 2020, when we all get that Text message saying shelter in place. Pandemic strikes. NASDAQ come to us, and NASDAQ say, hey, we're going to go from three buildings to one building. We're going to reduce, in Manhattan, we're going to reduce the number of desks we have by 49%. Hey, Chargify, your cloud management platform for all these wireless charges that are going to be on all of our desks, can we ditch the wireless charging part of it and just use your software to manage our move to hybrid? And Nathan had thre…

AI assessment note: “we didn't shut it down. We had, uh, tens of customers at the time.”

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