Straight Answers
An LLM assessed 252 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 →
Nobody here carries a rate, and that is deliberate: rates are not published without enough raw tape, which means 8 or more assessed questions on raw, unedited recordings, and every Acquired episode we hold is the produced feed. So this page counts instead of rating. Every one of the 53 people on the record is accounted for: 46 have their questions counted (11 of them with at least one not answered directly), and the remaining 7 never took a direct question in any tape we hold: compilations, panels and cameo appearances leave nothing to assess.
No needle for Miles Grimshaw: 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 1 assessed question.
Miles Grimshaw: 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 46 people with assessed questions on the record, ranked by how many were not answered directly. Every count comes from the produced feed. Click a name to see their exchanges.
| Person | Redirected + not addressed | Questions | Tape | Argument clarity /5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Mauboussin Head of Consilient Research, Counterpoint Global | 1 | 16 | produced | ≈4.5 |
| Mark Canlis Owner and Operator, Canlis | 1 | 11 | produced | ≈4.0 |
| Katherine Boyle General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1 | 6 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Jim Weber Former CEO, Brooks Running | 1 | 6 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Jensen Huang Founder and CEO, NVIDIA | 1 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Chenyi Shi Partner, Strategy Capital | 1 | 5 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| David Senra Host, Founders Podcast | 1 | 4 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Jason Calacanis Founder & CEO, LAUNCH | 1 | 4 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Eric Yuan Founder & CEO, Zoom | 1 | 4 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Hamilton Helmer Co-Founder & Co-CIO, Strategy Capital | 1 | 4 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Ben Gilbert Co-founder & Co-host, Acquired | 1 | 1 | raw | — |
| Packy McCormick Founder & Writer, Not Boring | 0 | 13 | mixed | ≈4.5 |
| Michael Ovitz Chairman, Treville Capital Group | 0 | 13 | produced | ≈4.5 |
| Sam Bankman-Fried Former CEO, FTX | 0 | 12 | produced | ≈4.0 |
| Brinton Johns Co-founder & Portfolio Manager, NZS Capital | 0 | 9 | produced | ≈4.5 |
| Dara Khosrowshahi CEO, Uber | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Christina Cacioppo CEO and Co-founder, Vanta | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Mitch Lasky General Partner, Benchmark | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Ben Thompson Founder & Author, Stratechery | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Anthony Gonzalez Co-CEO, Cobalt Service Partners | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Brad Gerstner Founder & CEO, Altimeter Capital | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Brendan Eich Co-Founder and CEO, Brave Software | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| John Bathgate Investor & Portfolio Manager, NZS Capital | 0 | 6 | produced | ≈4.5 |
| Jamie Dimon Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Steve Ballmer Owner and Chairman, Los Angeles Clippers | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Morris Chang Founder, TSMC | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Mark Zuckerberg Founder & CEO, Meta | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Howard Schultz Chairman Emeritus, Starbucks | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Daniel Ek Founder & Executive Chairman, Spotify | 0 | 5 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Doug DeMuro Co-founder, Cars & Bids | 0 | 5 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Joseph Gordon-Levitt Co-founder & CEO, HitRecord | 0 | 4 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Andrew Marks Co-Founder and Managing Partner, TQ Ventures | 0 | 2 | raw | — |
| Howard Marks Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Oaktree Capital Management | 0 | 2 | raw | — |
| Anu Hariharan Founder & Managing Partner, Avra | 0 | 2 | raw | — |
| David Rosenthal Co-Host, Acquired | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Blake Robbins Co-founder & Partner, Hidden Capital | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Ben Miller Co-Founder and CEO, Fundrise | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Chetan Puttagunta General Partner, Benchmark | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Miles Grimshaw Partner, Thrive Capital | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Peter Fenton General Partner, Benchmark | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Anatoly Yakovenko Co-Founder and CEO, Solana Labs | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Peter Gassner Founder & CEO, Veeva Systems | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Michael Lewis Author & Financial Journalist | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Max Neukirchen Co-Head of Global Payments, J.P. Morgan | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Umar Farooq Global Co-Head, J.P. Morgan Payments | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Charlie Munger Former Vice Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
Every count on this page comes from the produced feed: no raw unedited tape of Acquired exists in our library. Rates are not published without enough raw tape, so this page counts and shows no percentage. 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).