The Ledger

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.

clear all ✕

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: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ 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”
Immad Akhund May 12, 2025 ▶ 29:15 20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Akhund: 30% to 40% of all startups use Mercury
“30 to 40% of, like, all startups use Mercury.”
Immad Akhund May 12, 2025 ▶ 33:35 20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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…”
Immad Akhund May 12, 2025 ▶ 42:34 20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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…”
Immad Akhund May 12, 2025 ▶ 3:06 20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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.”
Immad Akhund Sep 20, 2019 ▶ 21:27 20VC: Mercury Founder Immad Akhund on Why Angel Investing Makes Founders Better Operators, The Right Way For Founders To Discuss and Present Competition To Investors & How To Think About Your Initial Wedge Into The Market and How It Expands Over Time
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.”
Immad Akhund Sep 20, 2019 ▶ 9:41 20VC: Mercury Founder Immad Akhund on Why Angel Investing Makes Founders Better Operators, The Right Way For Founders To Discuss and Present Competition To Investors & How To Think About Your Initial Wedge Into The Market and How It Expands Over Time
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 1,200 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.