Straight Answers
An LLM assessed 1,770 question → answer exchanges, the host's own answers included. Speaker names were hidden during assessment. Each exchange was marked answered, partly, redirected or not addressed, with a quote as its source. Every exchange below is timestamped and plays. How it works →
These readings are observational: the transcript shows whether the question was answered directly, whatever the reason. It is an AI reading of a public exchange, never a claim about intent, and the tape is one tap away on every row. full disclaimer →
Every one of the 880 people on the record is accounted for: 56 carry a full rate (8 or more assessed questions on raw tape), 192 more have their questions counted (35 of them with at least one not answered directly; too few raw questions for a fair percentage, edited feed included), and the remaining 632 never took a direct question in any tape we hold: compilations, panels and cameo appearances leave nothing to assess.
No needle for Ryan Caldbeck: fewer than 8 assessed questions on raw tape, and a percentage on a sample that small would mislead. Their counts are real: 0 not answered directly in 2 assessed questions, edited feed included.
Ryan Caldbeck: every exchange, playable
The question asked, then the AI assessment note from the answer. Tap to play the moment. Not addressed = the question was not engaged; redirected = acknowledged, then steered elsewhere.
No redirected or unaddressed exchanges identified for this person.
All speakers
All 56 people with 8 or more assessed questions on raw tape. Click a name to see their exchanges. highest rate none identified small samples
| Person | Not answered directly (%) | Redirected + not addressed | Questions | Argument clarity /5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steph Smith Creator, Internet Pipes | 44% | 10 | 23 | 3.7 |
| Steven Sinofsky Board Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 35% | 6 | 17 | 3.9 |
| Parag Khanna Founder & CEO, AlphaGeo | 30% | 3 | 10 | 4.2 |
| Aarthi Ramamurthy Founder & General Partner, Schema Ventures | 25% | 3 | 12 | 3.9 |
| Qasar Younis Co-founder & CEO, Applied Intuition | 25% | 2 | 8 | 3.9 |
| Benedict Evans Independent Technology Analyst | 23% | 7 | 31 | 3.9 |
| Jeff Jordan General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 22% | 2 | 9 | 4.1 |
| Andy Walsh Director of High Performance, Red Bull | 20% | 2 | 10 | 3.7 |
| John Markoff Distinguished Fellow, Stanford Institute for HAI | 20% | 2 | 10 | 4.0 |
| Dan Boneh Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University | 14% | 2 | 14 | 4.3 |
| Alex Fielding CEO and Chairman, Privateer | 14% | 3 | 22 | 3.9 |
| Alex Rampell General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 13% | 4 | 30 | 4.0 |
| Kieran Snyder VP of Product, AI, Microsoft | 13% | 1 | 8 | 4.3 |
| Parker Conrad Co-founder & CEO, Rippling | 13% | 1 | 8 | 4.0 |
| Vijay Pande General Partner, a16z Bio + Health | 12% | 2 | 17 | 3.9 |
| Anish Acharya General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 10% | 1 | 10 | 4.3 |
| Evangelos Simudis Founder and Managing Director, Synapse Partners | 8% | 1 | 12 | 4.0 |
| Martin Casado General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 8% | 2 | 26 | 4.2 |
| Karen X. Cheng Founder & Creative Director, KarenXCheng Inc. | 8% | 2 | 26 | 4.2 |
| Olivia Moore Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 8% | 1 | 13 | 4.5 |
| Patrick Hsu Co-Founder and Core Investigator, Arc Institute | 8% | 1 | 13 | 4.1 |
| Neal Stephenson Co-Founder and Chairman, Lamina1 | 7% | 2 | 29 | 4.5 |
| Sarah Wang General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 6% | 1 | 16 | 4.3 |
| Justin Mares Founder & CEO, Truemed | 6% | 1 | 17 | 4.5 |
| Vas Narasimhan CEO, Novartis | 6% | 1 | 17 | 4.4 |
| Keith Rabois Managing Director, Khosla Ventures | 5% | 1 | 20 | 4.1 |
| Christopher Nguyen Co-Founder and CEO, Aitomatic | 5% | 1 | 21 | 4.2 |
| Bridgit Mendler CEO & Co-Founder, Northwood Space | 4% | 1 | 26 | 4.0 |
| Marc Andreessen Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 3% | 1 | 32 | 3.9 |
| David Haber General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 0% | 0 | 10 | 4.1 |
| Ben Horowitz Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 0% | 0 | 29 | 4.3 |
| Justine Moore Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 0% | 0 | 10 | 4.4 |
| Jonathan Swanson Founder & Chairman, Athena | 0% | 0 | 19 | 4.5 |
| Emmett Shear Co-founder and CEO, Softmax | 0% | 0 | 10 | 4.1 |
| Amjad Masad Co-founder & CEO, Replit | 0% | 0 | 27 | 4.3 |
| David Sacks Founding General Partner, Craft Ventures | 0% | 0 | 10 | 4.2 |
| Chris Power Founder & CEO, Hadrian | 0% | 0 | 32 | 4.4 |
| Balaji Srinivasan Founder, The Network School | 0% | 0 | 12 | 4.2 |
| Mina Song Co-founder & CEO, EliseAI | 0% | 0 | 13 | 4.5 |
| Christina Kim Researcher, OpenAI | 0% | 0 | 12 | 4.1 |
| Kimberly Tan Investing Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.4 |
| Roy Lee Co-founder & CEO, Cluely | 0% | 0 | 12 | 4.2 |
| Doug Bernauer Founder & CEO, Radiant | 0% | 0 | 10 | 4.1 |
| Connie Chan Former General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 0% | 0 | 20 | 4.4 |
| Jason Feifer Editor-in-Chief, Entrepreneur Magazine | 0% | 0 | 21 | 4.3 |
| Dr. Moriba Jah Chief Scientist & Co-Founder, Privateer | 0% | 0 | 14 | 4.3 |
| Sondre Rasch Co-founder and CEO, SafetyWing | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.2 |
| Darren Murph Future of Work and AI Architect | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.3 |
| Alex Bouaziz Co-Founder and CEO, Deel | 0% | 0 | 12 | 4.0 |
| Steve Zhao Founder & CEO, Sandbox VR | 0% | 0 | 24 | 4.4 |
| Anu Hariharan Founder & Managing Partner, Avra | 0% | 0 | 21 | 4.3 |
| Clay Shirky Vice Provost, New York University | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.4 |
| Laila Janah Founder & CEO, Samasource | 0% | 0 | 20 | 4.2 |
| Matei Zaharia Co-Founder and CTO, Databricks | 0% | 0 | 10 | 4.5 |
| Nathaniel Popper Editor & Journalist, Bloomberg News | 0% | 0 | 10 | 4.5 |
| Kim Zetter Investigative Reporter, Wired Bio: Kim Zetter is a veteran cybersecurity investigative journalist and author of Countdown to Zero Day. She covers cyberwarfare, state-sponsored espionage, and the mechanics of major security incidents and digital threats. | 0% | 0 | 13 | 4.4 |
Percentages come from raw unedited recordings only: produced podcast audio has tangents and stumbles cut in the edit, which moves the speaker up by about 12 percentile points. The small-sample counts include the produced feed. This is a reading of a transcript. It is not an accusation of dishonesty, and there are many good reasons not to answer a question directly (confidential numbers, unreleased products, someone else's news to break).