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 →

Josh Montgomery 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 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q Okay, got it. Very good. So eight and a half million and, uh, you launched, sorry, I didn't catch the date. You launched in, you said, 2015?

A Yeah, 2015. We did the Kickstarter. Nothing but a prayer and a dream. Uh, you know, I think one of the big things that entrepreneurs miss when they're launching products, and I think it's the biggest waste in the entrepreneur ecosystem, is to determine whether or not anybody wants your product. And so we, we started with a Kickstarter with nothing but a video to see if people wanted a smart speaker because there were a lot of very experienced venture capital folks and other entrepreneurs out there who said, nobody's ever going to want this smart speaker thing. Like it listens in the corner. That's a niche market. And of course, that, that doesn't turn out to be the case. It turns out it's the fastest growing segment of the fastest growing market in history.

AI assessment note: “Yeah, 2015. We did the Kickstarter.”

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