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Andy Swan

Co-Founder, LikeFolio · 1 appearance on the record.

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founderinvestoranalyst@AndySwan ↗likefolio.com ↗

Andy Swan is an entrepreneur who previously co-founded DaytradeTeam and MyTrade, which was acquired by TD Ameritrade in 2007. He co-founded LikeFolio, an analytics platform that tracks social media consumer behavior and spending patterns to predict revenue shifts for public equities.

6statements → 3claims → 1claims resolved → 3.83/5average certainty → 1.33/5average debate potential → 2said about them ↓

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3 assertions · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 name 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 Andy 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
Swan: Likefolio ingests every brand-mentioning tweet via official Twitter partnership
“We have a partnership with Twitter, we take in every tweet that is mentioning a brand or product that's owned by a publicly traded company, and then”
Andy Swan Sep 7, 2017 ▶ 6:26 775: FinTech Founder: I'll Never Raise Capital Again!

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 Andy Swan on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

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

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Swan: Boutique hedge fund market outnumbers high-end quant funds by 10,000
“We just launched the Likefolio on demand model where we're servicing these smaller boutique type of hedge funds, and so it could turn out, because there's so many more of them, there's, you know, 10 to 13,000 of those, whereas the quantitative funds, there's m…”
Andy Swan Sep 7, 2017 ▶ 8:36 775: FinTech Founder: I'll Never Raise Capital Again!
Disclosure
Swan: Likefolio will never raise outside capital to preserve founder ownership
“No, we have not raised capital and don't plan on it. This is something I want to own all of.”
Andy Swan Sep 7, 2017 ▶ 11:18 775: FinTech Founder: I'll Never Raise Capital Again!
Disclosure
Swan: Raising capital months before acquisition caused unnecessary founder dilution
“I don't think that we ever really tapped into that money because we sold the company like three or four months after, after raising. So really we just diluted our own ownership and kind of a lesson learned there.”
Andy Swan Sep 7, 2017 ▶ 3:54 775: FinTech Founder: I'll Never Raise Capital Again!
Assertion Supported
Swan: Likefolio ingests every brand-mentioning tweet via official Twitter partnership
“We have a partnership with Twitter, we take in every tweet that is mentioning a brand or product that's owned by a publicly traded company, and then”
Andy Swan Sep 7, 2017 ▶ 6:26 775: FinTech Founder: I'll Never Raise Capital Again!
Disclosure
Swan: Likefolio client contracts strictly ban disclosing client relationships or testimonials
“In fact, what's really crazy about this climate is we can't give testimony. We can't share testimonials. We can't share usage numbers because every contract that we have with these clients is buttoned up and so secure. We're not allowed to disclose even that w…”
Andy Swan Sep 7, 2017 ▶ 9:12 775: FinTech Founder: I'll Never Raise Capital Again!
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Swan: Likefolio's sentiment analysis model has a 2% to 4% error rate
“About two to four percent, depending on the company, of our sentiment where we're, we register a sentiment, positive or negative, is a miss.”
Andy Swan Sep 7, 2017 ▶ 15:08 775: FinTech Founder: I'll Never Raise Capital Again!

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
775: FinTech Founder: I'll Never Raise Capital Again! Sep 7, 2017 9m
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