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 7 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

Prediction Held up
Nasdaq proposes allowing stock issuers to opt out of National Market System
“One of the things that we are preparing, and we've wrote in our blueprint, is to create, give an issuer a choice. They should be allowed to choose which market structure they want to embrace, so they can choose to be in the national market system, or they coul…”
Adina Friedman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:00 a16z Podcast | Market Shifts
Assertion Supported
George: Aggregate unicorn market cap reached $3.5 trillion, growing 7x in a decade
“If you take the market cap of, you know, the private markets valued above a billion dollars, you know, we could argue are some of them overvalued, undervalued but that whole value in aggregate Is like three and a half trillion dollars, and that's like 11%, thr…”
David George Jan 26, 2026 ▶ 43:57 The Biggest Bottlenecks For AI: Energy & Cooling
Assertion Supported
NASDAQ integrates blockchain into next-generation market infrastructure
“We've integrated the blockchain now into our next generation market infrastructure technology, so we can basically support any market from pre-trade risk management through to settlement on the blockchain in any market, so including non-financial markets.”
Adina Friedman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:53 a16z Podcast | Market Shifts
Assertion Supported
Friedman: Nasdaq proprietary data pricing undercuts the SIP
“And we also make our best bid and offer and last sale available cheaper than the SIP.”
Adina Friedman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:51 a16z Podcast | Market Shifts
Assertion Supported
Friedman: NASDAQ Indexes Represent $150 Billion in Assets
“We're a significant indexer ourselves. So we provide indexes that now have a hundred and fifty billion dollars of assets tied to them. So about 60% of that AUM, assets under management, is tied to our benchmark indexes, like the Nasdaq 100, the biotech, the se…”
Adina Friedman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:32 a16z Podcast | Market Shifts
Assertion Supported
Friedman: Non-financial sectors use NASDAQ technology to trade ad futures and loyalty points
“We have clients now that use our market infrastructure technology to trade ad futures, to trade reinsurance credits, to trade loyalty points, so we can look at that marketplace.”
Adina Friedman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:49 a16z Podcast | Market Shifts
Assertion Supported
Friedman: NASDAQ provides technology to 90 global exchanges
“We also provide that technology to 90 other exchanges around the world.”
Adina Friedman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:55 a16z Podcast | Market Shifts
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.