why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 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 Supported
Mercury Credit Card Outpaces Competitors Among Own Customer Base
“Now Mercury for Mercury customers, Mercury credit card is bigger than all the other kind of corporate credit cards on the platform”
Assertion Supported
Akhund: 30% to 40% of all startups use Mercury
“30 to 40% of, like, all startups use Mercury.”
Assertion Partly supported
Akhund: Space tech currently has only three functional markets
“There's, like, basically three existing markets in space tech. There's rockets, right? Like, getting things up and down, which obviously SpaceX dominates. There's taking pictures from space and That's actually, like, pretty big market, like, forty billion doll…”
Assertion Partly supported
Akhund: Rappi hit unicorn status within a year of my seed investment
“Rappi was one of my first investments. Rappi is like a door dash for LADAM. Yeah. I literally invested and they did not talk to me again. Like they were just so busy and they grew that thing like crazy. And it was a unicorn within a year and a half. I invested…”
Assertion Partly supported
Akhund: Mercury is the only startup-focused challenger bank in the U.S.
“If you take what we're doing at Mercury, there's no one else really doing a startup focused challenger bank. I would say the zero, which is really good. The only people we're competing against is Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic and Chase.”
Assertion Supported
Akhund: Flash gaming was the worst market to enter in 2009
“Like Hayzap started off in the flash gaming market, which was the most wrong market you could be in in 2009. We pivoted a lot, but it was hard to get away from those roots.”