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.

clear all ✕

why aren't all 5 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

Assertion Supported
Kupor: OPM introduces forced distribution, capping top executive ratings at 30%
“So one of the things that we're doing, we just put out guidance on this, at least with respect to what are called the SES, which are the most senior level people in government, is we are effectively doing a modicum of a forced distribution. And so we put out g…”
Scott Kupor Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 13:42 The Person Who Runs HR For 2 Million Federal Workers
Assertion Supported
Kupor: 99.7% of federal workers receive performance ratings of three or higher
“So fours and fives, so the very, very top, is roughly 65 to 70% of people get a four or five. 90, when you add threes, fours, and five, that's 99.7%, ok? So 99.7% are a three or higher. 0.3%, therefore, is a one or a two.”
Scott Kupor Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 13:10 The Person Who Runs HR For 2 Million Federal Workers
Assertion Supported
Cooper: Any Andreessen Horowitz GP can independently approve investments
“Here at Injuries and Horowitz, we do things differently, which is as long as people follow the process, you know, consistently, you know, any single general partner has the ability to ultimately make a decision to invest and go on the board of a company.”
Scott Kupor Jun 14, 2019 ▶ 16:46 How to Understand and Choose a Venture Investor
Assertion Partly supported
Square's full ratchet forced double share issuance at its IPO
“When Square went public, they went public at eight dollars a share. Their last round of financing was at 16 dollars a share. And those 16 dollar investors had this full ratchet that we were talking about. So those 16 dollar shareholders basically got issued tw…”
Scott Kupor Jun 14, 2019 ▶ 18:19 How to Raise Money from a Venture Investor
Assertion Supported
Loudcloud raised $120 million at an $820 million post-money valuation
“Ben Horowitz and I spent a bunch of time raising this very large round. We raised a hundred and twenty million dollars at an eight hundred and twenty million dollar post money valuation, right?”
Scott Kupor Jun 14, 2019 ▶ 6:28 How to Raise Money from a Venture Investor
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 1,000 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.