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and titles are extracted from the episodes themselves: they are as of the recording, and people move on, so some are out of date today.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caroline Moon ×2 Head of Financial Operations, a16z | 2 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.93/5 +0.0 | — | ≈289 | ≥0.2 |
| Chad Rigetti Founder & CEO, Rigetti Computing | 1 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60% 3/5 | 3.71/5 -0.2 | — | ≈238 | ≥4.8 |
| Chris Ellis Co-founder & CEO, Thatch | 1 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 57% 4/7 | 3.71/5 -0.2 | — | 264 | 36.4 |
| Chris Granger Principal, Jump | 1 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0% 0/1 | 3.83/5 -0.1 | — | 273 | 22.2 |
| Chris Wanstrath ×3 Co-founder & Former CEO, GitHub | 3 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4.07/5 +0.2 | — | 300 | 4.3 |
| Christian Brose ×2 Chief Strategy Officer, Anduril | 2 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% 2/2 | 3.79/5 -0.1 | — | 275 | 39.7 |
| Darshan Shankar ×2 Founder and CEO, Bigscreen | 2 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 50% 3/6 | 3.86/5 -0.0 | — | ≈269 | ≥14.2 |
| David Mytton Founder & CEO, Arcjet | 1 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60% 3/5 | 3.86/5 -0.0 | — | 257 | 9.3 |
 Dick Costolo ×2 Managing Partner & Co-Founder, 01 Advisors | 2 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 20% 1/5 | 4.43/5 +0.5 | — | 307 | 14.2 |
 Eliot Horowitz Founder & CEO, Viam | 1 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 4.07/5 +0.2 | — | 285 | 7.9 |
 Graham Allison Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School | 1 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60% 3/5 | 4.14/5 +0.2 | — | 231 | 13.1 |
| Herman Narula ×2 CEO, Improbable | 2 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.79/5 -0.1 | — | 289 | 16.8 |
| Jason Citrin Cofounder & CEO, Discord | 1 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75% 3/4 | 3.64/5 -0.3 | — | 286 | 19.6 |
 Jensen Huang Founder and CEO, NVIDIA | 1 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 4.14/5 +0.2 | — | 246 | 27.4 |
 Jonah Peretti ×2 Founder & CEO, BuzzFeed | 2 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4.07/5 +0.2 | — | 257 | 22.6 |
| Kayvon Turanian Founder & CEO, Foundation | 1 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 71% 5/7 | 3.79/5 -0.1 | — | 217 | 28.7 |
| Kieran Snyder VP of Product, AI, Microsoft | 1 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% 2/2 | 4.07/5 +0.2 | 4.3 | 238 | 23.2 |
| Leo Polovets Co-founder & General Partner, Susa Ventures | 1 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.57/5 -0.3 | — | 338 | 15.1 |
| Marco Argenti Chief Information Officer, Goldman Sachs | 1 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0% 0/1 | 3.86/5 -0.0 | — | 253 | 65.2 |
| Mark Leslie Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business | 1 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 3.71/5 -0.2 | — | ≈274 | ≥1.4 |
 Mark Zuckerberg Founder & CEO, Meta | 1 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33% 1/3 | 4.08/5 +0.2 | — | 275 | 18.3 |
| Marty Chavez Vice Chairman & Partner, Sixth Street Partners | 1 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 3.93/5 +0.0 | — | 227 | 23.1 |
| Murray Shanahan Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind | 1 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 67% 2/3 | 3.57/5 -0.3 | ≈4.5 | 267 | 36.6 |
| Nick Tomaino Founder and General Partner, 1confirmation | 1 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 83% 5/6 | 3.57/5 -0.3 | — | 232 | 7.3 |
| Oren Cass Founder & Chief Economist, American Compass | 1 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 75% 3/4 | 3.93/5 +0.0 | — | 241 | 18.1 |
| Patrick Byrne Founder & CEO, Overstock.com | 1 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 25% 1/4 | 3.86/5 -0.0 | — | 235 | 10.7 |
 Peter Diamandis Executive Chairman, XPRIZE Foundation | 1 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 40% 2/5 | 3.86/5 -0.0 | — | 236 | 17.5 |
| Ron Johnson Retail Executive | 1 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33% 1/3 | 3.86/5 -0.0 | — | 261 | 6.9 |
| Sarah Rogers Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, U.S. Government | 1 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 57% 4/7 | 4.21/5 +0.3 | — | 228 | 12.5 |
| Ted Ullyot ×4 Head of Policy Team, a16z | 4 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% 2/2 | 3.57/5 -0.3 | — | ≈249 | ≥4.3 |
| Tomer London Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, Gusto | 1 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 4.36/5 +0.5 | — | 280 | 41 |
| Alec Ross Author, The Industries of the Future | 1 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0% 0/2 | 3.62/5 -0.3 | — | 229 | 9 |
| Anant Bhardwaj Founder & CEO, Instabase | 1 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.85/5 -0.0 | — | ≈276 | ≥2.9 |
 Arthur Brooks Professor of the Practice, Harvard Kennedy School | 1 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0% 0/3 | 4/5 +0.1 | ≈4.0 | ≈253 | ≥1.3 |
| Cameron Schuler Executive Director, Amii | 1 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100% 3/3 | 3.69/5 -0.2 | — | ≈281 | ≥5.7 |
| Charles Koch Chairman & Co-CEO, Koch, Inc. | 1 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4.38/5 +0.5 | — | ≈203 | ≥3.5 |
| Danny Postma Founder & CEO, HeadshotPro | 1 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 33% 1/3 | 3.85/5 -0.0 | — | 268 | 8.8 |
 David Baszucki Co-founder & CEO, Roblox | 1 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% 0/1 | 3.92/5 +0.0 | — | 204 | 20.1 |
| Doug Bernauer ×2 Founder & CEO, Radiant | 2 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 50% 2/4 | 3.77/5 -0.1 | 4.1 | 281 | 42.1 |
| Dr. Clarence B. Jones Founding Director Emeritus, USF Institute for Nonviolence | 1 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 50% 2/4 | 4.92/5 +1.0 | — | 267 | 13 |
| Eddie Lazzarin CTO, a16z crypto. | 1 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% 0/2 | 3.85/5 -0.0 | — | 265 | 17.4 |
| Elizabeth Stark CEO and Co-founder, Lightning Labs | 1 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100% 3/3 | 3.77/5 -0.1 | — | 299 | 26.5 |
| Evangelos Simudis Founder and Managing Director, Synapse Partners | 1 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50% 1/2 | 3.77/5 -0.1 | 4.0 | 191 | 28.6 |
| Jakub Pachocki Chief Scientist, OpenAI | 1 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.31/5 -0.6 | — | 279 | 44.8 |
| Jason Gardner Founder & Executive Chairman, Marqeta | 1 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50% 1/2 | 4.15/5 +0.3 | — | 233 | 13.2 |
| Jason Mars | 1 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 100% 7/7 | 4.15/5 +0.3 | — | 233 | 60.7 |
| Jonathan Lusthaus | 1 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 100% 5/5 | 3.77/5 -0.1 | — | ≈267 | ≥3.6 |
| Ken Coleman Special Advisor, Andreessen Horowitz | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.85/5 -0.0 | — | ≈236 | ≥0.8 |
| Kim Malone Scott | 1 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.92/5 +0.0 | ≈4.0 | ≈235 | ≥0.3 |
| Kim Zetter Investigative Reporter, Wired | 1 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 100% 7/7 | 3.92/5 +0.0 | 4.4 | 271 | 59.9 |
 Martha Lane Fox Crossbench Life Peer, House of Lords | 1 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 67% 2/3 | 3.62/5 -0.3 | — | 279 | 9.8 |
 Matei Zaharia Co-Founder and CTO, Databricks | 1 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 75% 3/4 | 4.15/5 +0.3 | 4.5 | 242 | 55.3 |
 Michelle Flournoy Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors | 1 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33% 1/3 | 3.77/5 -0.1 | — | 216 | 6.3 |
| Mohsen Malayeri Co-founder, Avatech | 1 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 78% 7/9 | 3.92/5 +0.0 | — | 238 | 38 |
| Peter Ludwig ×2 Co-founder & CTO, Applied Intuition | 2 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% 2/2 | 3.85/5 -0.0 | — | 265 | 33.4 |
| Reshma Sohoni Co-Founder, Seedcamp | 1 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50% 1/2 | 3.62/5 -0.3 | — | 254 | 26.4 |
| Sriram Krishnan Host, The Good Time Show | 1 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33% 1/3 | 3.92/5 +0.0 | — | 325 | 15.4 |
| Sten Tamkivi CEO and Co-founder, Teleport.org | 1 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 33% 1/3 | 3.85/5 -0.0 | — | 260 | 30.1 |
 Susan Rice Visiting Fellow, Stanford University | 1 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% 2/2 | 4.15/5 +0.3 | — | 224 | 17.1 |
 Tony Blinken Former U.S. Secretary of State | 1 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75% 6/8 | 4/5 +0.1 | ≈4.5 | 264 | 13.2 |
| Ushma Garg ×2 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% 2/2 | 4.08/5 +0.2 | — | 259 | 22 |
| Alec Nielsen Co-founder and CEO, Asimov | 1 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50% 2/4 | 3.75/5 -0.1 | — | ≈241 | ≥5.6 |
| Amin Vahdat Chief Technologist for AI & Infrastructure, Google | 1 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% 2/2 | 3.83/5 -0.1 | — | 265 | 39.1 |
 Atul Butte Distinguished Professor and Director, BCHSI at UCSF | 1 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 4.17/5 +0.3 | — | ≈264 | ≥3 |
 Benjamin Wittes Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution | 1 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% 2/2 | 3.58/5 -0.3 | — | ≈198 | ≥4.1 |
| Brandon Ballinger CEO, Cardiogram | 1 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 29% 2/7 | 3.42/5 -0.5 | — | ||
| Brett Hagler Co-Founder & Board Member, New Story | 1 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 86% 6/7 | 4.33/5 +0.4 | — | 258 | 24.4 |
| Chris Ré | 1 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100% 4/4 | 4/5 +0.1 | — | ≈262 | ≥4.9 |
| Colin McCune Head of Government Affairs, a16z | 1 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50% 1/2 | 4.08/5 +0.2 | — | 258 | 8.8 |
| Daniel Reid Cahn Co-Founder, Slingshot AI | 1 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50% 1/2 | 4/5 +0.1 | — | 309 | 18.3 |
| David Rumsey Founder, David Rumsey Map Collection | 1 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 67% 2/3 | 4.25/5 +0.4 | — | ||
 Diane Greene Board Director, Stripe | 1 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4.17/5 +0.3 | — | 244 | 19.6 |
| DJ Kleinbaum | 1 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 67% 2/3 | 4.08/5 +0.2 | — | 219 | 8.7 |
 Dylan Field Co-founder and CEO, Figma | 1 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 67% 2/3 | 3.58/5 -0.3 | — | 300 | 38.4 |
| Elliot Hershberg | 1 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 67% 4/6 | 3.92/5 +0.0 | — | 250 | 44 |
 Ion Stoica ×2 Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley | 2 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% 2/2 | 4/5 +0.1 | — | 226 | 18.4 |
| Jamie McGurk ×2 Operating Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4/5 +0.1 | ≈4.0 | 274 | 38.3 |
| Jared Ryle Executive Director, ICIJ | 1 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 67% 4/6 | 4.17/5 +0.3 | — | ≈272 | ≥1.1 |
| Jeff Cordova Interim Head of Software Engineering, Rigetti Computing | 1 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 67% 4/6 | 3.83/5 -0.1 | ≈4.0 | 269 | 17.7 |
| Jennifer Tejada Executive Chair, PagerDuty | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.92/5 +0.0 | — | ≈258 | ≥3.7 |
| Jim Gilliam ×2 Founder & CEO, NationBuilder | 2 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50% 1/2 | 4/5 +0.1 | — | 246 | 32.2 |
| Julia Collins Founder & CEO, Planet FWD | 1 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 40% 2/5 | 4.08/5 +0.2 | — | 250 | 6.5 |
| Kevin Fu | 1 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75% 6/8 | 4.42/5 +0.5 | — | 255 | 75.6 |
| Kim Milosevich ×4 CMO, a16z crypto | 4 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4/5 +0.1 | — | ≈265 | ≥7.1 |
| Malinka Walaliyadde ×6 Co-Founder & CEO, AKASA | 6 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60% 3/5 | 3.92/5 +0.0 | — | 282 | 11.2 |
| Marc Andrusko ×2 Partner, a16z | 2 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50% 1/2 | 4/5 +0.1 | — | ≈266 | ≥4.9 |
| Martin Fischer | 1 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50% 1/2 | 3.92/5 +0.0 | — | ||
| Michael Morell Former Deputy Director, CIA | 1 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0% 0/1 | 4.17/5 +0.3 | — | ≈236 | ≥5 |
| Nathaniel Popper Editor & Journalist, Bloomberg News | 1 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% 2/2 | 3.58/5 -0.3 | 4.5 | 226 | 13.4 |
| Rachel Goslins Director, Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building | 1 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 80% 4/5 | 4.08/5 +0.2 | — | ||
| Roman Mars Host, 99% Invisible | 1 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.67/5 -0.2 | ≈4.5 | 274 | 5.2 |
| Safi Bahcall | 1 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100% 3/3 | 4.08/5 +0.2 | — | ≈240 | ≥3 |
| Ting Ni Immigration Expert, ImmiPartner | 1 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 71% 5/7 | 4.25/5 +0.4 | — | 229 | 22.6 |
| Tracy Sun Cofounder & SVP, Poshmark | 1 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 4.25/5 +0.4 | — | 224 | 19.4 |
 Trevor McFedries Founder, Runner | 1 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3.75/5 -0.1 | ≈4.0 | ≈289 | ≥3.5 |
| Yubin Park Founder & CEO, mimilabs | 1 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50% 1/2 | 4.08/5 +0.2 | — | 232 | 121.8 |
 Adam Back Co-Founder and CEO, Blockstream | 1 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 50% 2/4 | 3.27/5 -0.6 | — | 258 | 19 |
 Bruce Friedrich Founder and President, The Good Food Institute | 1 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 67% 4/6 | 3.91/5 +0.0 | — | ||
| Chandler Lujica Founder & CEO, Galadyne | 1 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50% 1/2 | 3.91/5 +0.0 | — | 317 | 20.6 |
| Christopher Nguyen Co-Founder and CEO, Aitomatic | 1 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% 1/1 | 4/5 +0.1 | 4.2 | 256 | 10.8 |
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.