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 →

Eric Yuan 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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Q know, the most successful entrepreneurs I've met, they sell their first company into a corporation. They get frustrated like you did, but they know all the problems inside. So they leave, launch a new company, and then later sell it back, and they do it over and over and over again. It's like a, it's like a washing machine. So you're in acquisition talks right now with Cisco, aren't you?

A No, no, no. We, we don't want to sell the company. And by the way, you know, I was not a CEO, right? So WebEx, you know, the, the two co-founders and, uh, You know, they are already a public company. They wanted to sell the company back in, you know, in our case, you know, in the case of Zoom, we really wanted to build a long-term, sustainable company, focused on delivering happiness to our customers. You know, we enjoy that. We have fun by doing that. And after you sell the company, what, what are you going to do, right? I think that, especially here, this is the Silicon Valley, You know, I call that a startup valley. You better work on a startup, right, to make the world a better place.

AI assessment note: “No, no, no. We, we don't want to sell the company.”

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