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Nova Spivack

1 appearance on the record.

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14statements → 7claims → 3claims resolved → 33%fully supported → 3.64/5average certainty → 2.07/5average debate potential → 8said about them ↓

1 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 predictions · 4 assertions · 2 opinions · 2 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 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 Nova 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
Spivack: SRI incubator invented the technology that became Apple's Siri
“Dice.com went public in oh seven, and then I went and worked with SRI, which is Stanford Research International, to build their incubator which, among other things invented the technology that later became Siri on the iPhone for Apple”
Nova Spivack Jun 2, 2016 ▶ 2:25 The Inside Scoop On Building $1b+ Unicorn Data Company with Nova at Bottlenose.com, EP 248: Nova Spivack

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Spivack: The Daily Dot is approaching 40 million monthly readers
“I think it's getting close to, it's approaching forty million readers, so it's doing very well.”
Nova Spivack Jun 2, 2016 ▶ 4:28 The Inside Scoop On Building $1b+ Unicorn Data Company with Nova at Bottlenose.com, EP 248: Nova Spivack

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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75% 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 Nova Spivack on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

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

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Spivack: AI is nowhere near replacing programmers, editors, or writers
“I do not think that AI is anywhere near replacing programmers, which I think are creative people, or editors, or writers.”
Nova Spivack Jun 2, 2016 ▶ 12:28 The Inside Scoop On Building $1b+ Unicorn Data Company with Nova at Bottlenose.com, EP 248: Nova Spivack
Opinion
Spivack: Majority investor ownership is the 'kiss of death' for early startups
“I completely am against investors owning the majority of early stage companies. I think it's the kiss of death for early stage companies.”
Nova Spivack Jun 2, 2016 ▶ 8:57 The Inside Scoop On Building $1b+ Unicorn Data Company with Nova at Bottlenose.com, EP 248: Nova Spivack
Insight
Spivack: Big data startups require $40M by Series C as table stakes
“The amount of money that you have to raise to be successful in this space by the time you do a series C is about forty million bucks. That's where you need to go and to be successful. That's table stakes for this field.”
Nova Spivack Jun 2, 2016 ▶ 18:35 The Inside Scoop On Building $1b+ Unicorn Data Company with Nova at Bottlenose.com, EP 248: Nova Spivack
Insight
Spivack: Silicon Valley lacks a producer role bridging VCs and creatives
“The producer is the glue between the money and the creatives. And the producer basically is the, bridges the cultural gap, really, and we don't have that in Silicon Valley, and that's where a lot of deals break down, because you have VCs who are money people, …”
Nova Spivack Jun 2, 2016 ▶ 6:38 The Inside Scoop On Building $1b+ Unicorn Data Company with Nova at Bottlenose.com, EP 248: Nova Spivack
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Spivack: Machine-generated news will fail outside narrow domains
“I don't believe that machine generated news outside of maybe very narrow domains, like financial news is, is really going to Cut it. I think that, you know, the human brain is so far beyond what AI can do today.”
Nova Spivack Jun 2, 2016 ▶ 11:48 The Inside Scoop On Building $1b+ Unicorn Data Company with Nova at Bottlenose.com, EP 248: Nova Spivack
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Spivack: AI job displacement will target manual and factory labor
“In fact, I think, basically where AI is going to Replace jobs is, is lower level manual labor, like factory labor.”
Nova Spivack Jun 2, 2016 ▶ 12:38 The Inside Scoop On Building $1b+ Unicorn Data Company with Nova at Bottlenose.com, EP 248: Nova Spivack
Opinion
Spivack: Crunchbase data is almost always wrong
“The crunch-based data is almost always wrong, and everybody in the industry knows that.”
Nova Spivack Jun 2, 2016 ▶ 17:47 The Inside Scoop On Building $1b+ Unicorn Data Company with Nova at Bottlenose.com, EP 248: Nova Spivack
Assertion Partly supported
Spivack: EarthWeb's 1998 IPO was NASDAQ's sixth largest first-day gain at the time
“I started EarthWeb in 1994 as one of the first internet companies in the world. went public in 98. It was the sixth largest gaining NASDAQ IPO in history at the time.”
Nova Spivack Jun 2, 2016 ▶ 1:49 The Inside Scoop On Building $1b+ Unicorn Data Company with Nova at Bottlenose.com, EP 248: Nova Spivack
Assertion Supported
Spivack: SRI incubator invented the technology that became Apple's Siri
“Dice.com went public in oh seven, and then I went and worked with SRI, which is Stanford Research International, to build their incubator which, among other things invented the technology that later became Siri on the iPhone for Apple”
Nova Spivack Jun 2, 2016 ▶ 2:25 The Inside Scoop On Building $1b+ Unicorn Data Company with Nova at Bottlenose.com, EP 248: Nova Spivack
Disclosure
Spivack: $5,000 angel check into Klout yielded nearly $500,000 on exit
“I put a 5000 dollar check and let's just put it, you know, I'll probably net something close to, you know, half a million bucks from that.”
Nova Spivack Jun 2, 2016 ▶ 3:28 The Inside Scoop On Building $1b+ Unicorn Data Company with Nova at Bottlenose.com, EP 248: Nova Spivack
Assertion Contradicted
Spivack: The Daily Dot is approaching 40 million monthly readers
“I think it's getting close to, it's approaching forty million readers, so it's doing very well.”
Nova Spivack Jun 2, 2016 ▶ 4:28 The Inside Scoop On Building $1b+ Unicorn Data Company with Nova at Bottlenose.com, EP 248: Nova Spivack
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Spivack: Bottlenose processes nearly 100 billion data records per day
“We're looking at about getting close to about a hundred billion data records a day at a rate of about a million per second.”
Nova Spivack Jun 2, 2016 ▶ 15:17 The Inside Scoop On Building $1b+ Unicorn Data Company with Nova at Bottlenose.com, EP 248: Nova Spivack
Disclosure
Spivack: Bottlenose enterprise subscriptions range from tens of thousands to over $500K
“It's an annual enterprise subscription and, you know, our prices range anywhere from the tens of thousands of dollars up to about half a million or more, depending on the type of project.”
Nova Spivack Jun 2, 2016 ▶ 15:43 The Inside Scoop On Building $1b+ Unicorn Data Company with Nova at Bottlenose.com, EP 248: Nova Spivack
Disclosure
Spivack: Bottlenose has fewer than 100 large enterprise customers
“It's, you know, it's fewer than a hundred customers today, but they're big customers.”
Nova Spivack Jun 2, 2016 ▶ 16:31 The Inside Scoop On Building $1b+ Unicorn Data Company with Nova at Bottlenose.com, EP 248: Nova Spivack

The other half of the tape: Nova Spivack's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 8 times in 3 episodes on Top Founders. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The Inside Scoop On Building $1b+ Unicorn Data Company with Nova at Bottlenose.com, EP 248 Jun 2, 2016 14m
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