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.

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why aren't all 5 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

Assertion Supported
Zuckerberg: Facebook paused feature development for a year during mobile rewrite
“We basically took, I think it must have been like a year or something, we were just like, look, we're gonna pause feature development of the company, Because it's hard enough to do a rewrite, right? So if you look at, like, the history of the tech industry, th…”
Mark Zuckerberg Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 39:20 The Mark Zuckerberg Interview · Acquired
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Google shut down Google.com in 1999 to serve Netscape traffic
“In 1999, they shut Google down so that they could serve Netscape's users.”
David Rosenthal Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 1:35:15 Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
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Eich: Netscape's 1995 IPO broke precedent by listing unprofitably on speculation
“In the eighties, SGI had to have three profitable quarters before it could IPO, whereas Netscape just went on forward speculation and forward multiples, and it was not profitable.”
Brendan Eich Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 17:27 The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
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Netscape expanded from one million to fifteen million users in one year
“Netscape, we should say, goes from one million to fifteen million users in one year.”
Ben Gilbert Jul 22, 2024 ▶ 36:28 Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
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David Beirne recruited Jim Barksdale as Netscape CEO before joining Benchmark
“So David ends up doing the CEO searches for Netscape. He brings in Jim Barksdale, which of course is a Kleiner company and a John Doar company. He does the same for Excite.”
David Rosenthal Sep 28, 2022 ▶ 59:26 Benchmark Part I · Acquired
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