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Assertion Partly supported
Mares: Coca-Cola spent $140M influencing US nutrition guidelines over 15 years
“Coca-Cola spending one hundred forty million dollars to influence our nutrition guidelines like they have over the last, you know, 15 years.”
Justin Mares Feb 4, 2026 ▶ 27:15 How Truemed Is Incentivizing Americans to Invest in Prevention
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Only the Catholic Church and Coca-Cola reached 1B people before tech
“How many businesses or human organizations or institutions in history have ever had a billion anything? And it's like, you're basically, it's basically the Catholic Church and the Coca-Cola company, and that's basically about it.”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:03 a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
Prediction Held up
Mariotti: Enterprise transition to microservices will take ten years
“At an enterprise level, you know, 99.9, they're still monolithic, so it's more a 10 years transition that we'll see, and what Netflix did, it will happen to Coca-Cola, to McDonald's, so there's a lot of value to be unlocked and to help companies doing this tra…”
Augusto Marietti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:00 a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
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