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David Yang

Co-Founder and President, Newo.ai · 1 appearance on the record.

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David Yang, Ph.D., is a Silicon Valley-based AI entrepreneur best known for founding ABBYY, a pioneer in optical character recognition and content intelligence. He also founded workplace analytics platform Yva.ai and co-founded Newo.ai, a platform for deploying voice and text AI digital agents.

14statements → 6claims → 2claims resolved → 3.79/5average certainty → 1.57/5average debate potential → 9said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

6 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 6 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 4 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 David 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
David Yang: ABBYY employs 1,300 people with 50M global users
“My largest organization called ABBYY.com. It's a leading company 1300 employees fifty million users worldwide.”
David Yang Nov 11, 2021 ▶ 6:55 Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Yang: Yva.ai is probably only HR tool integrating collaboration sources
“We are the only company in the world, probably, at least I don't know anyone else, who connects system to collaboration sources like Microsoft Teams, Select, Jira, GitHub, and other collaboration circles.”
David Yang Nov 11, 2021 ▶ 13:58 Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
0% certainty 3
100% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

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 David Yang on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything David Yang 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
David Yang: Yva.ai can predict employee resignations before decisions are made
“This technology can predict employees' resignation even before employees actually decided to resign.”
David Yang Nov 11, 2021 ▶ 3:35 Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five
Assertion Contradicted
Yang: Yva.ai is probably only HR tool integrating collaboration sources
“We are the only company in the world, probably, at least I don't know anyone else, who connects system to collaboration sources like Microsoft Teams, Select, Jira, GitHub, and other collaboration circles.”
David Yang Nov 11, 2021 ▶ 13:58 Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five
Opinion
David Yang: $3M SaaS revenue can fetch a $100M+ valuation
“Three million dollar revenue would give you in many cases even more than a hundred million dollar valuation.”
David Yang Nov 11, 2021 ▶ 23:40 Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five
Insight
Yang: Toxic managers and resignation risk become acute at 100+ employees
“The actual pain points with informal leaders, Detached to you leaders, toxic managers, no resignation prediction, all that starts playing when you are a hundred or a thousand employees and above.”
David Yang Nov 11, 2021 ▶ 18:30 Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yang: Not all 496 Yva.ai customers at year-end 2020 were paying
“496 customers we had by the end of last year, not all of them were paying.”
David Yang Nov 11, 2021 ▶ 19:16 Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five
Disclosure
Yang: Yva.ai clients expand company-wide within 3 to 6 months
“It's initially it kind of starts with hundreds to a thousand between 101,000 employees depending on the size of the organization. And in three, six months, they typically expand to sometimes to the whole population.”
David Yang Nov 11, 2021 ▶ 2:45 Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five
Assertion Not checkable as stated
David Yang: Over 200,000 employees are connected to Yva.ai
“It's right now it's already above 200,000 employees.”
David Yang Nov 11, 2021 ▶ 4:07 Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five
Assertion Not checkable as stated
David Yang: Yva.ai grew to 496 connected organizations in 2020
“We started actually we started sales end of 2019. We had only 49 paying customers in the beginning of last year, but we grew up we grew a hundred, excuse me, 10 times during last year and ended up with 496 No employer co connected organizations end of last yea…”
David Yang Nov 11, 2021 ▶ 4:13 Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five
Disclosure
David Yang: Yva.ai raised $12M to date and is targeting $8M round
“So far we raised twelve million dollars and we will be raising eight million dollars in our current upcoming current round.”
David Yang Nov 11, 2021 ▶ 6:04 Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five
Assertion Supported
David Yang: ABBYY employs 1,300 people with 50M global users
“My largest organization called ABBYY.com. It's a leading company 1300 employees fifty million users worldwide.”
David Yang Nov 11, 2021 ▶ 6:55 Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five
Disclosure
David Yang: Yva.ai spun out of ABBYY with $3M in funding
“Eva started as a design lab inside ABBYY. And when we spun off the company, it was just three million dollars we received right away when we spun out the company.”
David Yang Nov 11, 2021 ▶ 7:07 Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five
Disclosure
Yang says Yva.ai requires a refundable 12-month deposit for free trials
“We provide three months for free. So it's they for, from some amount we require a 12 months deposit, which is A hundred percent refundable if company is not decided not to continue after the three months of free.”
David Yang Nov 11, 2021 ▶ 19:44 Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five
Disclosure
Yang: Yva.ai charges about $5 per month per employee
“It's a four to nine dollars per employee per year. Basically it's about five dollars per month per employee.”
David Yang Nov 11, 2021 ▶ 2:31 Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five
Disclosure
Yang: Yva.ai employs 65 to 68 people and will surpass 100 soon
“We are 65 about right now we're drawing, it's maybe 68 and we're going to be over a hundred employees soon.”
David Yang Nov 11, 2021 ▶ 16:07 Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five

The other half of the tape: David Yang's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 9 times in 1 episode on Top Founders. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Yva.ai Targeting $8m Raise for HR Tech Tool Competing with 15Five Nov 11, 2021 15m
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