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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Q That's, that's great. And what is the, uh, tell us more kind of, I'm a data guy. I always miss the emotional stuff. Tell us how you got into this. Why, why'd you get into the business?

A Um, my co-founder and I were looking for business ideas and like we'd worked at the same company together and we both realized we wanted to quit and start a company. Figure two was better than one. And then just, we wrote down 50 ideas that would be interesting as like a paragraph each explaining the ideas. We walked through them and just kind of, they were all the way from like, you know, start a blog about beer, right? All the way to, you know, these like enterprise software things that we could build. Um, and you know, we, we, Crossed off the ones we didn't think we could effectively market or promote. And we came down to a list of like five or six that we wrote out. So I'd say like two to five page business plans on. Um, and then at that point we were like, well, let's, let's go deeper on them. And when we started coming up with numbers, it all felt kind of a little bit like BS. Like you could make up any numbers at that point. Once you start getting that deep into a plan, you're like, yeah, this is clearly a great market where we could make tons of money and you can make any of those ideas look good. And the reality is any of them probably were good. Um, and we thought the most effective thing we could do then was to put up page, put up landing pages to do customer validation. Um, and we said, well, why isn't that one of our ideas to do that? Um, and so we added that as th…

AI assessment note: “we realized we wanted to quit and start a company”

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