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Matthew Schmidt

Founder & CEO, Peoplelogic · 1 appearance on the record.

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Matthew Schmidt is the founder and CEO of Peoplelogic, an organizational health platform providing predictive team insights. Prior to Peoplelogic, he co-founded DZone Media and AnswerHub, serving as VP of Engineering, CTO, and President until an exit in 2017.

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1 prediction · 2 assertions · 2 opinions · 1 insight · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are 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 Matthew 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
Schmidt: Most HR Tech Companies Lack Resources to Train Custom AI
“And the truth is that most companies who are in the HR tech space don't have the resources that someone like open AI has to train their content. And to train the AI. They just seem to, they don't have a billion dollars from Microsoft.”
Matthew Schmidt Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 38:38 People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For

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Everything Matthew Schmidt said on We Live to Build that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Schmidt: Early-stage startups should avoid using AI for hiring
“A startup probably shouldn't use AI in the hiring process, right? The choice and the impact of the individuals at that early stage is too important.”
Matthew Schmidt Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 17:34 People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Schmidt: Replacing managers with AI in reviews will create more problems
“But I think, you know, offloading that from the person who's most familiar with it is you know, probably going to create more problems in its work.”
Matthew Schmidt Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 34:06 People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For
Opinion
Schmidt: Giving up decision-making to AI takes away human essence
“What makes us human is free will and choice and I think to give the, to give that up to anyone, frankly, right, and whether it's AI or not, is taking away what makes us human.”
Matthew Schmidt Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 44:47 People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For
Opinion
Schmidt: Using AI to infer candidate demographics is a massive mistake
“It should not be making decisions, particularly in the hiring process based on those types of things, right? It should not say, oh, this text feels like it was written by someone who identifies as a female, right? Like if it starts to introduce those sorts of …”
Matthew Schmidt Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 37:38 People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For
Assertion Supported
Schmidt: Most HR Tech Companies Lack Resources to Train Custom AI
“And the truth is that most companies who are in the HR tech space don't have the resources that someone like open AI has to train their content. And to train the AI. They just seem to, they don't have a billion dollars from Microsoft.”
Matthew Schmidt Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 38:38 People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For
Assertion Supported
Schmidt: Confirm uses ONA to streamline 360 performance reviews
“Companies like confirm that are using ONA to kind of Turn the three 60 process on its head and to save you a bunch of time.”
Matthew Schmidt Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 33:03 People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For
What-if
Schmidt: People management missteps delayed prior startup exit by two-plus years
“I would say those missteps probably increased our time to exit by at least two years, but possibly more.”
Matthew Schmidt Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 5:25 People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For

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Appearances (1)

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People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For Jun 14, 2023 27m
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