why aren't all 8 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 1 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Lemkin: Drift Is Completely Dead After Being Banned by Salesforce
“They kicked Drift off five months ago. Drift will never come back. It is dead. It is completely dead.”
What-if
Torres claims Drift would be public without executive equity concessions
“I would have a public company right now if I, if it wasn't for like all those carrots that I gave and candy bars and trophies.”
Opinion
Elias Torres calls selling Drift the biggest failure of his life
“Drift is the biggest failure in my life.”
Assertion Supported
No SaaS firm Cabane advised reached $50M ARR on a single channel
“And I have never seen a companies I've worked with, neither at Segment or at Drift, Gorgias, or Ram, and not in one of the companies I engage with, where we were able to get to fifty million on one channel. Not one.”
Disclosure
Torres: Overrode interview panels to make hiring decisions at Drift, HubSpot
“By the way that I ran interview at HubSpot and Adrift, everybody, I would help, I have a panel of people interviewing, But I would always interview myself. I will do the informal, I will do the formal, I bring them in, and then I do the closing. But I let them…”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shah: Drift's pricing strategy will force competitors to drop per-contact pricing
“And that once someone did it, eventually a lot of the other companies are going to get a lot of pressure to do the same thing.”
Assertion Supported
Elias Torres confirms Drift was sold for $1.2 billion
“1.2.”
Disclosure
Torres: Drift scaled to 800 total employees, including 200 in customer support
“I had 800 people, I had 200 in CS.”