Natasha Tiku

Tech Culture Reporter, The Washington Post · 1 appearance on the record.

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Nitasha Tiku covers Silicon Valley culture, Big Tech, and artificial intelligence at The Washington Post, having previously reported for WIRED and BuzzFeed News. She is widely known for reporting on workplace and ethics controversies across the tech industry, including breaking the 2022 story on Google's supposedly sentient AI chatbot.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted how the 2 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Natasha argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Tiku: Uber has 450,000 active drivers on its app every month

“There's 450,000 drivers on the app every month.”

Natasha Tiku Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:01 a16z Podcast | Sleep!

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Tiku: Non-traditional contractor roles grew by 9.4 million in a decade

“The number of contractors and people who have like a different kind of structure as a, you know, not somewhere between an employee and a contractor has grown, I think like 9.4 million in the past decade.”

Natasha Tiku Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:57 a16z Podcast | Sleep!

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Natasha Tiku on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

What they said6 Episodes1

Everything Natasha Tiku said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion

Tiku: Luxurious tech office perks are designed to keep employees working

“I think it is very much in line with other tech company perks, which are very luxurious, and everybody would love to have them, but at the same time, they're designed to keep you in the office and keep you working.”

Natasha Tiku Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:05 a16z Podcast | Sleep!

Insight

Tiku: Health device creators wrongly assume data automatically changes human behavior

“I think there's the assumption from the people who build these devices that knowledge will equal behavior modification. And I don't know. I mean, I always remember this one venture capital dinner that I went to where the guy was so excited about 23 and me that…”

Natasha Tiku Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:55 a16z Podcast | Sleep!

Insight

Tiku: Sleep management has become a status symbol in tech culture

“For people who are competitive and, you know, want to aspire to be like their tech idols. Sleep has become symbolic of how efficient somebody is, how smart somebody is, you know, how well they've optimized their life.”

Natasha Tiku Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:29 a16z Podcast | Sleep!