[saagarjha]

Not everyone is a good public speaker. It's not like MIT selects applicants by looking at their presentation skills, or necessarily even teaches them.

[rdtsc]

The point here was that he cheated. He made things up and as soon as he was asked about methodology he pretended not to hear the question, slowed down, started to sprinkle “likes” everywhere, etc.

The question is more about how good of a cheater he is. Not very good as keeping a story straight takes up a considerable amount of effort and speech suffers.