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Scott Weiss

Former General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz · 1 appearance on the record.

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Scott Weiss co-founded the email and web security company IronPort Systems in 2001 and served as its CEO until Cisco acquired it in 2007. In 2011, he joined Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner, leading enterprise software investments.

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3 assertions · 6 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.

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

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Assertion Supported
Tech headhunters earn 20-30% fees, yielding $25K-$50K profit per hire
“It ranges between 20 and 30%. So that's a lot of money, right? That's, you know, anywhere from 25 to 50 grand cash. I mean, there's no expense to it because there's no cost of goods other than time and maybe whatever I'm paying for LinkedIn recruiter.”
Scott Weiss Apr 25, 2020 ▶ 20:08 1736 He'll Never Win Unless He Shuts Down Agency

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Everything Scott Weiss 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
ReferraGig loses customers to faster-innovating VC-funded rivals
“When you look at the companies that are in our space that have raised money they're innovating at a much faster rate than us. We do lose customers to them because in many cases we can't keep up with their development cycles”
Scott Weiss Apr 25, 2020 ▶ 8:31 1736 He'll Never Win Unless He Shuts Down Agency
Disclosure
Weiss is hesitant to go full-time on ReferraGig
“What I'm trying to do is replace myself with the software, but yet here I am not really willing to go all in with that.”
Scott Weiss Apr 25, 2020 ▶ 20:50 1736 He'll Never Win Unless He Shuts Down Agency
Assertion Supported
Tech headhunters earn 20-30% fees, yielding $25K-$50K profit per hire
“It ranges between 20 and 30%. So that's a lot of money, right? That's, you know, anywhere from 25 to 50 grand cash. I mean, there's no expense to it because there's no cost of goods other than time and maybe whatever I'm paying for LinkedIn recruiter.”
Scott Weiss Apr 25, 2020 ▶ 20:08 1736 He'll Never Win Unless He Shuts Down Agency
Disclosure
ReferraGig prices its software between $200 and $1,500 monthly
“So on average per month, it'll go anywhere from. 200 dollars a month for a real small business up to, you know, a 1015 hundred dollars a month for a larger size company.”
Scott Weiss Apr 25, 2020 ▶ 3:21 1736 He'll Never Win Unless He Shuts Down Agency
Disclosure
Weiss invested $30K to $40K of personal capital to launch ReferraGig
“All said and done, probably we got it started. I was probably about 30 or 40,000 dollars in of my own money.”
Scott Weiss Apr 25, 2020 ▶ 5:17 1736 He'll Never Win Unless He Shuts Down Agency
Disclosure
ReferraGig has raised no outside capital
“No capital raised.”
Scott Weiss Apr 25, 2020 ▶ 5:26 1736 He'll Never Win Unless He Shuts Down Agency
Disclosure
Weiss partnered with his technical co-founder on a 50/50 equity split
“About two and a half years ago, him and I partnered up, and he came on board, fifty-fifty.”
Scott Weiss Apr 25, 2020 ▶ 5:43 1736 He'll Never Win Unless He Shuts Down Agency
Assertion Not checkable as stated
ReferraGig has five or six paying customers
“We're about five or six paying customers.”
Scott Weiss Apr 25, 2020 ▶ 6:20 1736 He'll Never Win Unless He Shuts Down Agency
Disclosure
Weiss generates 95% of his income from his recruiting agency
“I'm spending probably 95% of my time selling My agency business, which is where I generate 95% of my income.”
Scott Weiss Apr 25, 2020 ▶ 14:23 1736 He'll Never Win Unless He Shuts Down Agency

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1736 He'll Never Win Unless He Shuts Down Agency Apr 25, 2020 13m
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