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.

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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

Prediction Partly held up
Hoover: Product Hunt will expand to all passion categories within 5 years
“In five years, you'll see Product Hunt turn into a community and a site for all kinds of people and all kinds of things. And it will be a place where you can find all kinds of things from You know, whatever you're most passionate about, and you can find like-m…”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 29:25 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Product Hunt grew 50% month-over-month leading into YC
“Leading into, to the YC interview, we were growing 50% month over month”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 23:09 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
Assertion Supported
Hoover: Original Product Hunt app was built in 5 days
“The first version was really a Ruby on Rails app that Nathan, my buddy, he built it over like a five-day Thanksgiving holiday”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 6:27 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
Assertion Supported
Hoover: Product Hunt email digest has hundreds of thousands of subscribers
“There's the email digest, which hundreds of thousands of people subscribe to.”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 14:21 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Investors approached Product Hunt first during early fundraising
“Investors started approaching me before I never actually approached investors in the beginning.”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 23:58 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoover: Betaworks' Matt was a daily Product Hunt user before investing
“Matt, for example, he was a super early user, Matt at beta works. And when we started, when I started talking to him, like he already understood the value of it and he was a user and consumed it daily himself.”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 24:28 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt
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