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why aren't all 54 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 5 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

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Belsky: Assess hires and founders by exponential progression in successive conversations
“How do you hire people, and how do you find which teams to invest in, and one of the things I always apply is, is this someone whom every conversation is more interesting than the one before it, or is it a replay? You know, most people we actually meet, I don'…”
Scott Belsky Jan 7, 2019 ▶ 7:26 20VC: Scott Belsky on Why We Must Challenge Our Faith In The Strength of Resources, Why We Must Rethink The Product Creation and Design Process & How To Determine Between The Good and The Truly Great When Assessing Individuals
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Danny Rimer: Enterprise Software Is Adopting Consumer Selling Metaphors
“So whether it's Dropbox, or Slack, or the Microsoft, the three, six, five efforts, or what Adobe is magnificently doing, a lot of the enterprise is actually moving towards the consumer metaphor to sell software.”
Danny Rimer Dec 3, 2018 ▶ 7:36 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: Adobe has $5B in AI-influenced revenue
“Adobe has five billion of AI influenced revenue.”
Jason Lemkin Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 20:41 Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Belsky: Adobe replaced Photoshop's blank start page with templates and tutorials
“When I came back to Adobe four years ago in this chief product officer role, I looked at products like Photoshop that literally opened up with a blank black page of, you know, just nothingness, right? And it's like, there was no orientation of what to do now o…”
Scott Belsky Feb 9, 2022 ▶ 10:30 20 Product: Scott Belsky on How to Hire Your Product Leader and Team, 3 Questions All Great Product Leaders Ask, How To Structure and Run Effective Product Reviews & Is Product More Art or Science?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin prepared 100 SaaStr blog posts before leaving Adobe
“And then the day I left Adobe was the day of the first blog post on SaaS. I already had a hundred in the queue, so.”
Jason Lemkin Jul 1, 2015 ▶ 3:48 20 VC 050: Starting, Building and Selling in SaaS with the King of SaaS, Jason Lemkin, Managing Director @ Storm Ventures
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: Adobe's shift to the cloud required three years of internal convincing
“Adobe just trying to go to the cloud took three years of convincing everybody, okay?”
Jason Lemkin Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 1:03:55 Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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