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Adam Valkin

Partner, Vine Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Adam Valkin is an early-stage technology investor who spent 12 years at General Catalyst before joining seed fund Vine Ventures. He has backed companies including Monzo, ClassPass, and Deliveroo, and previously co-founded and served as interim CEO of LOVEFiLM.

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1 prediction · 1 assertion · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertion are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Adam argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Valkin confirms Amazon acquired LoveFilm for roughly $300M in 2011
“That's accurate.”
Adam Valkin Jun 18, 2016 ▶ 7:37 Where This VC Helps Put $3.7B Worth of Capital And Five $100M+ Companies He Loves, EP 299: Adam Valkin

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Adam Valkin on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Adam Valkin said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Valkin: Accel underestimated Uber's execution and the ride-hailing market's size
“When I look back, I don't think we ever expected the market to be that big, but I don't think we expected the competitors to be that good.”
Adam Valkin Jun 18, 2016 ▶ 14:39 Where This VC Helps Put $3.7B Worth of Capital And Five $100M+ Companies He Loves, EP 299: Adam Valkin
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Valkin: Billions of mobile devices will run core games, dwarfing PCs
“There will be three to five billion mobile devices capable of running a core game in the, in, over the next few years, and they're gonna be, you know, probably less than a billion PC devices.”
Adam Valkin Jun 18, 2016 ▶ 20:48 Where This VC Helps Put $3.7B Worth of Capital And Five $100M+ Companies He Loves, EP 299: Adam Valkin
Insight
Valkin: The most disruptive tech ideas come from twenty-something founders
“That it's a young person's world, and that the in the tech world, your twenties, every possibility is open to you. And that many of the really interesting projects and most disruptive ideas come from people that are freshly minted graduates or didn't even get …”
Adam Valkin Jun 18, 2016 ▶ 35:00 Where This VC Helps Put $3.7B Worth of Capital And Five $100M+ Companies He Loves, EP 299: Adam Valkin
Assertion Supported
Valkin confirms Amazon acquired LoveFilm for roughly $300M in 2011
“That's accurate.”
Adam Valkin Jun 18, 2016 ▶ 7:37 Where This VC Helps Put $3.7B Worth of Capital And Five $100M+ Companies He Loves, EP 299: Adam Valkin
Disclosure
Valkin: General Catalyst passed on the ClassPass seed round
“But we landed up not investing in the seed round and watching the company for about a year.”
Adam Valkin Jun 18, 2016 ▶ 18:15 Where This VC Helps Put $3.7B Worth of Capital And Five $100M+ Companies He Loves, EP 299: Adam Valkin

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Where This VC Helps Put $3.7B Worth of Capital And Five $100M+ Companies He Loves, EP 299: Jun 18, 2016 18m
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