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.
Steven Sinofsky: every exchange, playable
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“And just to evaluate one of those paths, if Satya could go back in time, knowing what he knows now, do you think he might've done something or would you have considered doing something different? Um, how, how should we think about how this has worked out for Microsoft?”
answered: “You can't ask me questions about my friends”
“And so let's say Trump brings you in and says, hey, I've noticed that, uh, you know, nearly all of computing is, uh, you know, every layer of stack is, is done in China and, and, you know, Asia more broadly, um, and I'm trying to sort of decrease our dependencies, um, Microsoft man. What, what should I do?”
answered: “there are much smarter people who know more and have much more at stake”
“And could we see Apple do a similar type of play where they sort of buy the talent in house or buy the company? How do you think about that?”
answered: “I'll let Meta decide how great it is for Meta or whatever”
“And could we see Apple do a similar type of play where they sort of buy the talent in house or buy the company? How do you think about that?”
answered: “I think what, what Meta is doing is at the very least, it's great for AI.”
“And just to evaluate one of those paths, if Satya could go back in time, knowing what he knows now, do you think he might've done something or would you have considered doing something different? Um, how, how should we think about how this has worked out for Microsoft?”
answered: “You can't ask me questions about my friends, but I, I wouldn't”
“And so let's say Trump brings you in and says, hey, I've noticed that, uh, you know, nearly all of computing is, uh, you know, every layer of stack is, is done in China and, and, you know, Asia more broadly, um, and I'm trying to sort of decrease our dependencies, um, Microsoft man. What, what should I do?”
answered: “there are much smarter people who know more and have much more at stake”
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).