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Assertion Supported

Immelt: GE Capital Was the World's Largest Finance Company in 2008

“But we were the world's biggest finance company when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt.”

Jeff Immelt Jul 22, 2021 ▶ 23:23 20VC: Jeff Immelt on Leadership Lessons from 16 Years as CEO @ GE, Incumbent Innovation; Why Some Have Failed and Other Succeeded, When Boards Have A Positive vs Negative Impact on a Company & The One Fear Startup Founders Are Allowed To Have

Assertion Partly supported

Immelt: GE built a $20 billion wind business

“We built a twenty billion dollar wind business.”

Jeff Immelt Jul 22, 2021 ▶ 5:05 20VC: Jeff Immelt on Leadership Lessons from 16 Years as CEO @ GE, Incumbent Innovation; Why Some Have Failed and Other Succeeded, When Boards Have A Positive vs Negative Impact on a Company & The One Fear Startup Founders Are Allowed To Have

Assertion Contradicted

Immelt: Industrial and financial S&P 500 share fell from 40% to 15%

“In the year 2000, industrials and financial services, let's say between those two, it was 40% of the S&P 500 value. Now it's 15%, you know.”

Jeff Immelt Jul 22, 2021 ▶ 10:55 20VC: Jeff Immelt on Leadership Lessons from 16 Years as CEO @ GE, Incumbent Innovation; Why Some Have Failed and Other Succeeded, When Boards Have A Positive vs Negative Impact on a Company & The One Fear Startup Founders Are Allowed To Have

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Immelt: I will get a Twilio tattoo when they hit $5B revenue

“That's absolutely true. I got in 2006 and I told Jeff Lawson that when Twilio gets to be five billion dollars in revenue, I'm going to get a tattoo of the owl, which is the kind of the Twilio symbol.”

Jeff Immelt Jul 22, 2021 ▶ 28:50 20VC: Jeff Immelt on Leadership Lessons from 16 Years as CEO @ GE, Incumbent Innovation; Why Some Have Failed and Other Succeeded, When Boards Have A Positive vs Negative Impact on a Company & The One Fear Startup Founders Are Allowed To Have

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