People
Everyone on the record. Click any column header to sort the whole table, hover a header for what the column means, and click through for the full record. Corpus average certainty is 3.9/5; deltas show each person against it. Argument clarity carries a full score for 56 people (gold bar, raw unedited tape) and a coarse estimate for 64 more (blue bar). Roles and titles are extracted from the episodes themselves: they are as of the recording, and people move on, so some are out of date today.
| Person | Eps | Statements | Claims | Supported | Partly supported | Contradicted | Full support rate | Certainty | Argument clarity | WPM | Fillers/1k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Collins | 1 | 19 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 67% 2/3 | 4/5 +0.1 | — | ≈256 | ≥2.9 |
| Jimmy Chen ×2 Founder & CEO, Propel | 2 | 19 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 50% 2/4 | 4.11/5 +0.2 | — | ≈296 | ≥6.5 |
 Joel Mokyr Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University | 1 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% 2/2 | 4/5 +0.1 | ≈4.5 | ≈232 | ≥8.7 |
 John Mather ×2 Senior Astrophysicist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 2 | 19 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 92% 11/12 | 4.11/5 +0.2 | — | 250 | 41.1 |
| Kevin Chou ×2 Managing Partner, SuperLayer | 2 | 19 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 78% 7/9 | 3.68/5 -0.2 | — | 267 | 42.3 |
| Kimberly Tan ×5 Investing Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 5 | 19 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 3.47/5 -0.4 | 4.4 | 262 | 12.6 |
 Kunal Bahl Co-founder, Titan Capital | 1 | 19 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 67% 4/6 | 3.74/5 -0.2 | — | 225 | 14 |
| Mati Staniszewski ×2 Co-founder & CEO, ElevenLabs | 2 | 19 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100% 3/3 | 4.16/5 +0.3 | — | 262 | 31.8 |
 Mira Murati Founder & CEO, Thinking Machines Lab | 1 | 19 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75% 3/4 | 3.84/5 -0.1 | — | 212 | 27 |
| Alex Blania Co-Founder & CEO, Tools for Humanity | 1 | 18 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75% 6/8 | 3.72/5 -0.2 | — | 291 | 29.4 |
 Alex Fielding CEO and Chairman, Privateer | 1 | 18 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 67% 4/6 | 4/5 +0.1 | 3.9 | 253 | 8.8 |
| Alex Honnold Professional Rock Climber | 1 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 80% 4/5 | 4.5/5 +0.6 | — | 316 | 11.8 |
| Andy McCall General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 3.72/5 -0.2 | — | 283 | 17.5 |
| Andy Milenius Former CTO, MakerDAO | 1 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100% 3/3 | 3.67/5 -0.2 | — | ≈256 | ≥0.8 |
| Andy Rachleff Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Wealthfront | 1 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 67% 2/3 | 4.17/5 +0.3 | — | ≈213 | ≥6.2 |
| Arianna Simpson ×2 General Partner, a16z crypto | 2 | 18 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50% 1/2 | 3.67/5 -0.2 | ≈4.5 | 235 | 24.5 |
 Ash Carter ×2 Former Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense | 2 | 18 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 75% 3/4 | 3.89/5 -0.0 | — | 223 | 20.8 |
 Casey Neistat Filmmaker and YouTube Creator | 1 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% 0/1 | 4.33/5 +0.4 | — | 282 | 20.9 |
| Chandra Krintz ×2 Professor of Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara | 2 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 43% 3/7 | 3.94/5 +0.0 | — | 226 | 30.6 |
| Diogo Mónica ×2 Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Anchorage Digital | 2 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50% 2/4 | 4.28/5 +0.4 | — | 237 | 27.7 |
| Dylan Ayrey Co-Founder & CEO, Truffle Security | 1 | 18 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 86% 6/7 | 3.78/5 -0.1 | — | ||
| Emily Boschwitz Co-founder and CMO, POCA | 1 | 18 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.89/5 -0.0 | — | ≈228 | ≥0.5 |
| Immad Akhund Co-founder & CEO, Mercury | 1 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0% 0/1 | 4/5 +0.1 | — | 285 | 36.9 |
| Jeff Kaditz ×2 Founder, CEO & CTO, Q Bio | 2 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 67% 4/6 | 3.83/5 -0.1 | — | 260 | 5.3 |
| Jyoti Bansal Co-Founder & CEO, Harness | 1 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 4.22/5 +0.3 | ≈4.5 | ≈293 | ≥5.8 |
| Kim Branson SVP & Global Head of AI, GSK | 1 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50% 1/2 | 3.94/5 +0.0 | — | 321 | 19.7 |
| Lawrence Levy Co-Founder, Juniper Foundation | 1 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 40% 2/5 | 4.06/5 +0.2 | ≈4.5 | ≈246 | ≥6.5 |
| Todd Young ×2 U.S. Senator (R-IN) | 2 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 80% 4/5 | 3.56/5 -0.3 | — | 223 | 56.5 |
| Tren Griffin Executive, Microsoft | 1 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50% 1/2 | 4/5 +0.1 | — | 267 | 22.9 |
 Tyler Cowen ×3 Professor of Economics, George Mason University | 3 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 83% 5/6 | 3.61/5 -0.3 | — | ≈249 | ≥0.9 |
 W. Brian Arthur External Professor, Santa Fe Institute | 1 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% 2/2 | 4.06/5 +0.2 | ≈4.5 | ≈194 | ≥2.4 |
| Wade Foster Co-founder & CEO, Zapier | 1 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100% 3/3 | 4.33/5 +0.4 | — | 294 | 28.3 |
 Alex Karp Co-founder & CEO, Palantir Technologies | 1 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.82/5 -0.1 | — | 240 | 23.3 |
| Chris Best ×2 Co-Founder and CEO, Substack | 2 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.76/5 -0.1 | ≈4.0 | 280 | 7.5 |
 Chris Milk ×2 Co-Founder and CEO, Within | 2 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 4/5 +0.1 | — | 245 | 24.5 |
 Derek Thompson Contributing Writer, The Atlantic | 1 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 60% 3/5 | 3.82/5 -0.1 | — | 228 | 13.8 |
 Emil Michael Under Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense | 1 | 17 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60% 3/5 | 3.94/5 +0.0 | — | 232 | 18.2 |
| Epoch AI Researcher Researchers, Epoch AI | 1 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 67% 2/3 | 3.12/5 -0.8 | — | 264 | 21.4 |
 Fred Ehrsam ×2 Co-Founder & CEO, Nudge | 2 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 60% 3/5 | 3.53/5 -0.4 | — | 227 | 16.2 |
| Justin Johnson ×2 Co-founder, World Labs | 2 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 83% 5/6 | 3.76/5 -0.1 | — | 294 | 15.5 |
 Raluca Ada Popa Associate Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley | 1 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69% 9/13 | 4/5 +0.1 | — | 241 | 31.3 |
 Ray Dalio Founder and Mentor, Bridgewater Associates | 1 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33% 1/3 | 3.94/5 +0.0 | — | ≈249 | ≥1.9 |
| Roy Lee Co-founder & CEO, Cluely | 1 | 17 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50% 1/2 | 4.29/5 +0.4 | 4.2 | 302 | 13.3 |
| Sajith Wickramasekara Co-founder & CEO, Benchling | 1 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% 2/2 | 3.71/5 -0.2 | — | 276 | 13.5 |
 Stéphane Bancel CEO, Moderna | 1 | 17 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 73% 8/11 | 4.06/5 +0.2 | — | ||
 Andre Iguodala Managing Partner, Mosaic General Partnership | 1 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 67% 4/6 | 4/5 +0.1 | — | 283 | 44.4 |
 Bernard J. Tyson Former Chairman & CEO, Kaiser Permanente | 1 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 71% 5/7 | 4/5 +0.1 | — | 214 | 35.1 |
 Bob Sutton Professor Emeritus, Stanford University | 1 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 80% 4/5 | 4/5 +0.1 | — | 270 | 15 |
| Chief Mike Gennaro Assistant Sheriff, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | 1 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 63% 5/8 | 4.19/5 +0.3 | — | 248 | 16 |
 Clay Shirky Vice Provost, New York University | 1 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75% 3/4 | 3.94/5 +0.0 | 4.4 | 221 | 8.7 |
| David Lee ×2 CFO, WEBTOON Entertainment | 2 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 86% 6/7 | 4.12/5 +0.2 | — | 248 | 7.3 |
| Erik Torenberg ×80 host General Partner, a16z | 80 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 80% 4/5 | 3.94/5 +0.0 | ≈4.0 | 307 | 24.8 |
| Ivan Linscott Senior Research Engineer, Stanford University | 1 | 16 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 54% 7/13 | 4.5/5 +0.6 | — | 246 | 16.1 |
 Jake Paul Co-Founder, Anti Fund | 1 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% 0/2 | 3.88/5 -0.0 | — | 226 | 25.3 |
| James Waters Head of R&D, VMware Tanzu, Broadcom | 1 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50% 1/2 | 3.88/5 -0.0 | — | ≈244 | ≥5.6 |
| Jiaming Song Former Chief Scientist, Luma AI | 1 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 67% 2/3 | 3.69/5 -0.2 | — | 251 | 28 |
| Justin Fanelli CTO, U.S. Department of the Navy | 1 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75% 3/4 | 4.12/5 +0.2 | — | 235 | 42.5 |
| Mark Levinson Historian, Economist, and Author | 1 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 50% 2/4 | 3.75/5 -0.1 | — | 222 | 25.4 |
| Michael Chime Co-Founder and CEO, Prepared | 1 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 67% 4/6 | 4.06/5 +0.2 | — | ≈319 | ≥4.7 |
| Michael Truell Co-founder & CEO, Anysphere | 1 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 3.94/5 +0.0 | — | 291 | 53.1 |
| Michel Feaster ×2 CEO, Conexiom | 2 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.81/5 -0.1 | ≈4.5 | ≈278 | ≥1.1 |
| Noam Shazeer AI Scientist, OpenAI | 1 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 3.69/5 -0.2 | — | 265 | 22 |
| Prabhav Jain CEO, 11x | 1 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.75/5 -0.1 | — | 355 | 9.9 |
| Raghu Raghuram ×2 General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50% 1/2 | 3.88/5 -0.0 | — | ||
| Rahul Vohra Founder & CEO, Superhuman | 1 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100% 3/3 | 4/5 +0.1 | — | ≈220 | ≥0 |
| Rob Reinhart ×2 Partner, Mars Bio | 2 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 57% 4/7 | 3.69/5 -0.2 | — | 278 | 56.7 |
 Robert Stromberg Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, The Virtual Reality Company | 1 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 88% 7/8 | 4.06/5 +0.2 | — | 249 | 33.9 |
| Sanket Pathak Founder & CEO, Foundation | 1 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 67% 4/6 | 3.69/5 -0.2 | — | 254 | 74.2 |
 Shaka Senghor President, Shaka Senghor, Inc. | 1 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 71% 5/7 | 4.12/5 +0.2 | — | 252 | 25.6 |
 Vitalik Buterin Co-founder and Core Researcher, Ethereum | 1 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 75% 3/4 | 3.81/5 -0.1 | — | 239 | 19.1 |
| Yoko Li ×4 Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 4 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50% 1/2 | 3.5/5 -0.4 | — | 249 | 18.9 |
| Alex Miller CTO, United States Army | 1 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100% 4/4 | 4.13/5 +0.2 | — | 292 | 10.1 |
 Arun Sundararajan Professor, NYU Stern School of Business | 1 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% 0/2 | 3.6/5 -0.3 | ≈4.0 | ≈212 | ≥7.9 |
| Ben Fish CEO & Co-Founder, Espresso Systems | 1 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 3.93/5 +0.0 | — | 224 | 33.9 |
| Brian C. Long CEO and Co-Founder, Adaptive Security | 1 | 15 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60% 3/5 | 3.8/5 -0.1 | — | 270 | 33.1 |
| Carl Pope Principal Advisor, Inside Straight Strategies | 1 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 40% 2/5 | 3.73/5 -0.2 | — | ||
 Chris Hayes Host, MSNBC | 1 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.47/5 -0.4 | — | ≈273 | ≥5.5 |
 Dario Amodei Co-Founder and CEO, Anthropic | 1 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 75% 3/4 | 3.87/5 -0.0 | — | 260 | 23.4 |
 Doug Burgum Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior | 1 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 60% 3/5 | 3.87/5 -0.0 | — | 259 | 19.2 |
| Evan Burfield Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Washington Office | 1 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50% 1/2 | 4/5 +0.1 | — | ≈266 | ≥8 |
| Gaurav Dhillon ×2 Founder & CEO, SnapLogic | 2 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 3.93/5 +0.0 | — | 254 | 6.6 |
| Grant Gregory Partner, Cantos | 1 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 50% 3/6 | 3.67/5 -0.2 | — | 222 | 30.2 |
| Grant LaFontaine Co-Founder & CEO, Whatnot | 1 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% 2/2 | 3.67/5 -0.2 | — | ||
| Guy Parsons Editor and Creator, It Does What Now? | 1 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% 0/1 | 3.33/5 -0.6 | ≈4.0 | ≈261 | ≥6 |
| Ilyas Khan Founder & CPO, Quantinuum | 1 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33% 1/3 | 3.8/5 -0.1 | ≈4.0 | 214 | 22.4 |
| Isa Fulford Researcher, OpenAI | 1 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0% 0/1 | 3.8/5 -0.1 | — | 302 | 26.1 |
| Jonathan Lai ×2 General Partner, a16z Games | 2 | 15 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60% 3/5 | 3.33/5 -0.6 | — | 240 | 28.3 |
 Justin Kan General Partner, Goat Capital | 1 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% 0/1 | 4.13/5 +0.2 | — | 289 | 31.5 |
 Lisa Su Chair and CEO, AMD | 1 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% 2/2 | 3.73/5 -0.2 | — | 248 | 62 |
 Mike Cannon-Brookes Co-Founder and CEO, Atlassian | 1 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4/5 +0.1 | — | 286 | 4.3 |
| Phil Dayan Co-Founder, Flashbots | 1 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 3.8/5 -0.1 | — | 274 | 14.5 |
| Ryan Caldbeck Founder & CEO, Waystation AI | 1 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 80% 4/5 | 3.73/5 -0.2 | — | ≈272 | ≥9.6 |
| Adam Thierer Resident Senior Fellow, R Street Institute | 1 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% 2/2 | 3.86/5 -0.0 | — | 252 | 9.7 |
| Adrian Cockcroft Cloud Architect, Netflix | 1 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.86/5 -0.0 | — | ≈261 | ≥0.9 |
| Adrienne Mayer Historian of Science & Author | 1 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 33% 2/6 | 4/5 +0.1 | — | ≈196 | ≥2.1 |
| Anarupa Ganguly ×2 Founder & CEO, Prisms VR | 2 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33% 1/3 | 4/5 +0.1 | ≈4.5 | 286 | 18.3 |
| Andy Walsh Director of High Performance, Red Bull | 1 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% 0/1 | 4.07/5 +0.2 | 3.7 | 280 | 11.5 |
| Ben Uretsky ×3 Co-founder & Former CEO, DigitalOcean | 3 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100% 3/3 | 4.21/5 +0.3 | — | 222 | 29.3 |
| Bobby Kotick CEO, Activision Blizzard | 1 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0% 0/5 | 3.93/5 +0.0 | — | ≈242 | ≥3 |
| Brian McCullough Host, Techmeme Ride Home | 1 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 3.79/5 -0.1 | — | 268 | 5 |
Why this person has no speaking number
We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself: a model transcribes the tape verbatim, every "um" and "uh" kept, and articulation rate comes from the word timings. A fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured, and we have less of them than that. A rate from a smaller sample would be noise, so we print nothing. It says nothing about how they speak.
A plain figure in these columns comes from raw-level tape. A dim figure with ≈ or ≥ comes from the aired feed of an edited show, where the editor cut some hesitation before release, so it is a floor. How it's measured →
eps counts appearances on the record; compilation re-airs and clips rolled into someone else's episode are left out, the same rule as the person page. statements counts everything they said on the record, the same number their page shows, compilation re-airs included. claims is the checkable subset: predictions and assertions, the statements the public record can support or contradict. Only claims can resolve to supported, partly supported or contradicted; claims not yet resolved are not yet assessed or name nothing precise enough to check, and re-air statements are never scored. full support rate = fully supported ÷ resolved, where resolved = supported + partly supported + contradicted, so partly supported claims sit in the denominator. Sorting that column puts records of five or more resolved claims first, so a 12/13 record outranks a lucky 3/3; percentages on fewer than 5 resolved statements are greyed. argument clarity = a 1–5 score against a rubric (directness, coherence, precision, compression), assessed with names hidden on question→answer exchanges. A gold bar is a full score: 8 or more exchanges on raw, unedited tape. A blue bar with ≈ is a coarse estimate at half point precision, pooled from whatever assessed exchanges exist when a full score is impossible; produced feed audio scores about 0.3 higher, which is why estimates stay coarse. A “—” never means zero. It means fewer than 3 scorable exchanges of that person exist anywhere (roundtables and news formats yield very few). Hover any bar or “—” for the exact basis. Argument clarity is a score, and we do not rank people on it: nobody is “worst”, and everyone scored has a number. WPM and fillers/1k are measurements of speaking style, made by listening to the audio itself rather than reading the cleaned transcript. They are not scores: across this corpus fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2). WPM is articulation rate while actually speaking, pauses excluded. A plain figure comes from raw-level tape. A dim ≈ or ≥ figure comes from the aired feed of an edited show, where some hesitation was cut before release, so the fillers figure there is a floor. A ? means under 2,000 words of measured tape.