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:
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Assertion Supported
Vasquez: Polish government invested in ElevenLabs
“The Polish government just invested in 11 Labs and is gonna do a bunch of initiatives with them.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vasquez: Brazil accounted for a high share of Cognition's early revenue
“In the cases of really hot companies in Silicon Valley, like Cognition, where their early go-to-market was actually Brazil, and you represent their really high share of the revenue early on, because this, these companies or these enterprises really desire to a…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vasquez: Voi's Fredrik Hjelm is invested across Sweden's top startups
“If you look at all the angel investments that the Frederick did, he's pretty much in all the relevant companies that came out of Sweden.”
Opinion
Gabriel Vasquez: Silicon Valley outpaces all other startup ecosystems in operating speed
“Silicon Valley continues to be ahead of every other ecosystem is the level of speed that people operate.”
Assertion Supported
Vasquez: Early Borderless Dinner attendees Slash and Factory became unicorn founders
“That group also has matured now. Where people that were early attendees of the, of that group has now graduated into unicorn founders, and now they're speakers. So like, we can give the example of Victor Cardenas from Slash, or Anna Reyes from Factory.”
Assertion Supported
Vasquez: Swedish dropout Gabriel Petersson worked at Midjourney and OpenAI before founding
“So this was a high school dropout from Sweden, came to the U.S. With no education, got a job on MidJourney, then became one of the youngest researchers at OpenAI, and now he started a company.”
Assertion Partly supported
Vasquez: Latin America had only 30 unicorns during initial a16z mapping
“At the time that I did the mapping and paying Angela, there were only 30 unicorns in Latin America.”