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LATENT SPACE Assertion Supported
Claude 3.5 Sonnet reported $2 benchmark rent to the FBI as cybercrime
“So it, like, claimed that it had stopped, but it saw that its bank account still was, like, drained two dollars, and it said that this is, like, cybercrime, and it first reported it once to the FBI, like, oh, there's cybercrime here, like, they're stealing two…”
Lukas Petersson Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 15:37 When AI Agents Run Businesses — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
Kantrowitz: Tim Cook's Defining Legacy Is Successfully Carrying Apple's Narrative
“It's going to be one of his biggest legacies is he kept Apple, whether it was through his showdown with the FBI around privacy The navigating, like, the tough political waters that a company like Apple does. Right. For better or worse, right? Because certainly…”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 21, 2026 ▶ 3:41 Tim Cook Steps Down. And Who is John Ternus? — With Joanna Stern
CHEEKY PINT Assertion Supported
Langley: Stolen vehicles take 24 hours to reach the FBI database
“They will immediately put it in the Bay Area Flock hotlist immediately. It will take 24 hours to make it to the FBI hotlist. And that's a, you know, CSV file that gets sent around on FTP servers across the US.”
Garrett Langley Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 17:02 Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Enjeti: Leslie Wexner was never questioned by FBI or DOJ regarding Epstein
“As Leslie Wexner said, he was never questioned ever once by the FBI or the Department of Justice involving this case.”
Sagar Enjeti Feb 20, 2026 ▶ 27:33 Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Tracey: Maria Farmer's initial FBI complaint mentioned no sex crimes
“She mentioned nothing about a sexual assault. She mentions nothing about any kind of sex crime at all.”
Michael Tracey Feb 20, 2026 ▶ 42:13 Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
MORE OR LESS Assertion Partly supported
Brit Morin: Internet sleuths are using AI to analyze Nancy Guthrie case evidence
“People have started using AI to take the photos that the FBI has put out of this guy on the front porch, you know, trying, like trying to cover the Nest Cam. And they've started like using AI to Determine what he might look like under the mask. They, another p…”
Brit Morin Feb 13, 2026 ▶ 58:22 Why OpenAI Can't Win The Decentralized AI Future (OpenClaw, Apple's Win, X.AI Exodus) · More or Less Podcast
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mandia: Non-developers can bypass legacy antivirus software in under three minutes.
“We could teach FBI agents in the classroom who were not malware developers how to circumvent antivirus in under three minutes. Compress and encrypt malware. And you got past antivirus.”
Kevin Mandia Feb 4, 2026 ▶ 9:26 AI Expert: Agents Will Take Over Everything · Joe Lonsdale
BIGDEAL Insight
Sanchez: Reframing Emotional Accusations Reduces Hostility Faster Than Direct Rebuttals
“Reframing emotional accusations reduces hostility faster than a direct rebuttal.”
Codie Sanchez Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 4:19 How CEO’s Handle Difficult Conversations (Ways I Wish Someone Had Told Me)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 2025
Dicks Teaches Storytelling Techniques to the FBI Hostage Negotiation Unit
“The FBI I work with these days, helping their hostage negotiation unit tell better stories.”
Matthew Dicks Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 23:57 Matthew Dicks – Storytelling Mastery (EP.477)
ALL-IN Assertion Not checkable as stated
Molly Bloom states 17 FBI agents raided her home to arrest her
“Five days later, in the middle of the night, 17 FBI agents, machine guns, high beam flashlights, put me in handcuffs, And shackles, and put this piece of paper in front of me that said, the United States of America versus Molly Bloom.”
Molly Bloom Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 24:05 Molly's Game Uncensored: Mob Threats, FBI Raid & 100M Pots... And Still Won
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Calacanis notes the FBI arrested 30 people in sports betting probe
“The FBI just arrested 30 people in a sports betting and gambling probe.”
Jason Calacanis Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 15:59 NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Gabbard: FBI knowingly used false information to secure FISA warrants on Trump
“We're dealing with a very highly politicized FBI at the time that was so politicized, they were willing to use what they knew was false information to obtain illegal surveillance warrants from the FISA court to spy on Members of the Trump administration, when …”
Tulsi Gabbard Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 18:53 Tulsi Gabbard on Russiagate Hoax Evidence and How She’s Reforming Politicized Intelligence Agencies
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Schmitt: FBI knew Hunter Biden laptop was real in November 2019
“The FBI authenticated and knew the laptop for Hunter Biden with all the crazy stuff in it could have, by the way, implicated Joe Biden in some bad stuff. They knew it was real in 2019, in November of 2019. The FBI starts having monthly, then weekly meetings wi…”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 10:44 Senator Exposes America’s Biggest Censorship Scandal · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2030
Schmitt: FBI will deploy largest per-capita agent presence to St. Louis
“So in the FBI is going to have the largest per capita permanent infusion of permanent FBI agents in St. Louis, anywhere in the country.”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 23:15 Senator Exposes America’s Biggest Censorship Scandal · Joe Lonsdale
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Schmitt: FBI possessed Hunter Biden's laptop in 2019 during pre-bunking efforts
“We took the deposition of Elvis Chan, who was the FBI agent in charge of Northern California that was pre-bunking the Hunter Biden laptop story, even though the FBI had the laptop in 2019, right?”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 5:05 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: Steele dossier was a hoax and basis of Russia 2016 probe
“We also know that the Steele dossier was a hoax, and that was the whole basis once laundered through the FBI and that whole investigation, that somehow the Russians had interfered in the 2016 election.”
David Sacks Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 33:12 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
Cinnamon: Apex reports suspicious applicants and fake machine shops to FBI
“We've had some very interesting job applicants come by that we haven't interviewed. We due to the nature of our work, we can only hire US persons, but that doesn't mean people still don't try to sneak in, or we catch some things that are not quite adding up. A…”
Ian Cinnamon Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 40:33 From Palantir to Space Defense: Building a $100 Billion Company · Joe Lonsdale
TBPN Assertion Supported
Citadel Sent Scuba Divers Into Chicago River To Recover Stolen Code
“On the on the quant team stole code for, they call them alphas, basically code that no matter who runs it, they're gonna generate return. Stole a bunch of stuff on like a hard drive. Citadel finds out, realizes that they're stealing the IP, the code. The guy f…”
John Coogan Apr 6, 2025 ▶ 12:01 David Senra (Founders Podcast) on Studying Billionaires and Avoiding Their Mistakes
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Partly supported
Cotton: CIA joined FBI and DOE in assessing COVID-19 lab origin
“Right before the Biden administration left office, the CIA joined the FBI and the Department of Energy's intelligence unit, saying that it almost certainly came from the laboratory.”
Tom Cotton Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 10:08 Billionaire vs. U.S. Senator: Should TikTok Be Banned? · Joe Lonsdale
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Calacanis: The FBI can withhold information from the US President
“The thing about the FBI is the FBI can withhold information from the president, from other folks. If there's an ongoing investigation, sources are like secret and they would be in jeopardy and national security concerns.”
Jason Calacanis Mar 1, 2025 ▶ 4:18 Epstein Files Flop, State of the Market, Autonomous Robots, Trump's Gold Card, Friedberg on Jeopardy
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jones: Relentless FBI persecution took a profound toll on MLK
“They did everything to destroy him. And it had an effect, it had a profound effect on him.”
Dr. Clarence B. Jones Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 36:09 Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jones: The FBI would have bugged MLK's psychiatric sessions for J. Edgar Hoover
“Whether it's in 30 days, or 60 days, or 90 days, but within 30 to 60 days, every conversation that Martin is having with his psychiatrist is being transcribed. And within 60 days, the transcription of his sessions will be on the desk of J. Edgar Hoover. I'm ab…”
Dr. Clarence B. Jones Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 37:40 Ben Horowitz in Conversation w/ Dr. Clarence B. Jones, MLK's Advisor and Speechwriter
INVEST LIKE THE BEST Assertion Partly supported
Kushner: Special Counsel interview included three FBI agents and three prosecutors
“I was getting interviewed in some windowless conference room. I had my two lawyers next to me. I had three FBI agents and three representatives of the special counsel sitting across the desk.”
Jared Kushner Dec 20, 2024 ▶ 1:22:34 Jared Kushner - The Mechanic · Invest Like The Best
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Sacks: FBI used 'Teleport' tool to transmit instructions to Twitter
“The FBI had their own tool called teleport, which would allow them to transmit secret instructions to the trust and safety team at Twitter.”
David Sacks Nov 8, 2024 ▶ 1:16:31 Trump wins! How it happened and what's next
BIGDEAL Opinion
Voss: Going undercover psychologically ruins almost every law enforcement agent involved
“Going undercover almost ruins everybody that does it. It's such a problem that there, every law enforcement agency that has undercovers sets up a lot of psychologists to try to fix these people.”
Chris Voss Sep 3, 2024 ▶ 1:25:02 FBI Hostage Negotiator: These Conversation Tactics Will Make You Rich | Chris Voss
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Partly supported
FBI assesses Chinese espionage now surpasses Cold War KGB levels
“The FBI believes that there is more Chinese espionage against this country, both cyber and traditional, than ever during the first Cold War with KGB trying to infiltrate our country, right?”
Dmitri Alperovitch Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 13:08 He Predicted Putin's Invasion. Now He Predicts When China Will Invade Taiwan. · Joe Lonsdale
a16z Opinion
Moore: Maryland's federal assets make it the US cyber capital
“When you have the NSA, and you have U.S. Cyber Command, and you have the Naval Academy, and you have the FBI, there is no reason for you not to be the cyber capital of this country.”
Governor Wes Moore Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 16:50 The Next Generation of Leadership: A Conversation with Governor Wes Moore
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Sacks: Twitter Files showed 80 FBI agents sending platform takedown requests
“Once that censorship power was created, It attracted powerful entities from our government who wanted to co-opt and use that power. That's what we saw in the Twitter files with the 80 FBI agents sending takedown requests.”
David Sacks Dec 16, 2023 ▶ 1:05:52 E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more
ALL-IN Opinion
Tucker Carlson: 2022 FBI raid was key to Donald Trump's primary surge
“And so I think that's the key to his surge. I really do think that.”
Tucker Carlson Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 1:05:21 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Contradicted
Rey Flemings: NY State wired firm $45.9M for ventilators, prompting FBI call
“We got a wire from the state of New York for 45.9 million dollars and a phone call from the FBI.”
Rey Flemings Aug 22, 2023 ▶ 3:22 Rey Flemings: A Different Definition of Success
WE LIVE TO BUILD Assertion Partly supported
Todd's startup helped the FBI run stings on Eastern European mobsters
“We eventually work with the FBI and help the FBI set up stings on Eastern European mob because of like our business.”
Daniel Todd Aug 8, 2023 ▶ 25:15 Nobody Prepays Anyone - Until Daniel Asked and They Said Sure
FOUNDER'S JOURNAL Assertion Supported
Gatina: Helinet provided aerial surveillance as a service to law enforcement
“We just kind of cracked the code at Helinet on being able to provide surveillance as a service. It's a different kind of SaaS business, but where you're basically doing aerial surveillance for law enforcement agencies or clients, right? So it could be DEA, FBI…”
Steve Gatina Apr 18, 2023 ▶ 23:38 How 2 Personal Losses Led To Building The #1 Faith-Based Media Company
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Sacks: FBI, CIA send big tech instructions via Teleporter
“The deep state, the, you know, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, even the CIA is having weekly meetings with these big tech companies, not just Twitter, but we know like a whole panoply of them, and basically giving them disappearing instructions t…”
David Sacks Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 1:25:23 E116: Toxic out-of-control trains, regulators, and AI
ALL-IN Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shellenberger: FBI constantly pushed legal boundaries requesting Twitter user info
“FBI was constantly pushing the boundaries of what is legally and ethically acceptable in terms of requesting information.”
Michael Shellenberger Dec 24, 2022 ▶ 1:25:11 E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Shellenberger: Twitter found minimal foreign influence from FBI-flagged accounts
“You'll repeatedly, you'll Roth would respond to FBI that, yeah, we looked into these accounts that you mentioned, and they were all very low follower accounts with very little activity. So they just weren't finding very much foreign influence on the Twitter pl…”
Michael Shellenberger Dec 24, 2022 ▶ 1:30:04 E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: Twitter suppressed Hunter Biden laptop story before 2020 election
“What he did was confirm that a completely true story by the New York Post about Hunter Biden that came out a month before the election was suppressed by Twitter executives, including at the behest of, you know, of FBI agents and former security state officials…”
David Sacks Dec 10, 2022 ▶ 33:15 E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: FBI warned social networks to suppress authentic Hunter Biden laptop story
“A very important piece of this was the pre-bunking that the FBI went to Facebook and Twitter and social networks and said, be on the lookout for a story about Hunter Biden. It is Russian disinformation. And they primed these social networks to suppress that st…”
David Sacks Dec 10, 2022 ▶ 39:30 E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Sacks: FBI knew Hunter Biden's laptop was authentic in 2019
“The FBI was given the laptop in 2019 by the lap store, store owner. Those guys have forensics. They have cyber experts. They knew the laptop was real. We know it's real now. Nobody questions that. In fact, the FBI has admitted that the laptop was real and that…”
David Sacks Dec 10, 2022 ▶ 41:13 E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: FBI possessed Hunter Biden's hard drive for over a year
“The FBI, by the way, the FBI had the hard drive. They had the hard drive for over a year.”
David Sacks Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 44:34 E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
ALL-IN Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks: FBI urged Facebook to censor laptop story despite possessing authentic device
“The real point here is that the FBI went to Facebook to censor a story that they must have known was true because they had the laptop in their possession.”
David Sacks Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 46:37 E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit was not about nuclear secrets
“No, they've backed off that completely. It was not in the affidavit. It's not about nuclear. That was something they leaked to get them through a tough press cycle.”
David Sacks Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 48:48 E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: FBI unit raiding Mar-a-Lago is same unit that investigated Trump in 2016
“The group, the unit within the FBI that conducted the raid on Mar-a-Lago is the same group that conducted The investigation into Trump back in 2016 that lied to the FISA court that had its members, its leaders, Peter Strzok, were fired for basically wrongdoing…”
David Sacks Aug 20, 2022 ▶ 1:32:33 E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more
ALL-IN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sacks: Trump will be very hard to beat as 2024 Republican nominee
“I think he's gonna be very, very hard to beat as the nominee in twenty-twenty-four, unless the FBI comes up with ironclad evidence To show that he did something significantly wrong.”
David Sacks Aug 13, 2022 ▶ 1:00:20 E91: SoftBank's $21B+ Vision Fund loss, signals of a bubble, macro picture, Trump raided by FBI
Haidt: Tech platforms cannot stop foreign disinformation without intelligence agency coordination
“Yes, of course they took some easy steps, but there is no way they can get a handle on this. This has to be, and I think they call it for this. This has to be a sort of a government-wide partnership between Coordinated between the CIA, the FBI, NSA, Facebook, …”
Jonathan Haidt Jul 21, 2022 ▶ 24:52 Jonathan Haidt: Why Social Media Makes Our Society Stupid
STARTUP IDEAS Disclosure
Bloom: Recovered funds sent to fraudster through FBI and institutional recourse
“I I've had that happen actually. Like I I've gotten like sent a wire to someone that, you know, did a, like asked for a wire and it was the wrong wire and you get the money back and like the FBI gets involved and it's, there's like real due process around it”
Sahil Bloom Mar 17, 2022 ▶ 21:35 How to Get Rich Building Boring Businesses | Codie Sanchez, Contrarian Thinking
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Supported
Federal agents were imprisoned for stealing Bitcoin and leaking Silk Road info
“Throughout this case, there's like three or four different FBI agents or like DEA agents who are convicted and go to prison because they started talking with Ross and getting into Bitcoin. And they eventually like started feeding him information about what the…”
Sam Parr Dec 29, 2021 ▶ 40:58 The Story of Dark Web Kingpin Ross Ulbricht
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Sacks: FBI opens a new China-related counterintelligence case every 10 hours
“He said that the FBI is opening a new China-related counterintelligence case every 10 hours.”
David Sacks Jan 23, 2021 ▶ 41:59 E18: Inauguration talk, breaking down the $1.9T stimulus, the case for recalling Gavin Newsom & more
Holland: Law enforcement lacks bandwidth to investigate small business ransomware attacks
“The challenge would not necessarily be the difficulty. It would be the average Any person or business getting any agency to care, to track it down. Because that, intel agencies, law enforcement agencies aren't sitting around waiting for things to do. You know,…”
Matthew Holland Sep 29, 2020 ▶ 54:30 #93 Matt Holland: Zero Day
a16z Assertion Supported
Panama Papers data contained information relevant to the FBI's FIFA corruption probe
“While we were researching the stories, the FBI began to indict officials at FIFA, and of course we were seeing in the Panama Papers all of this information that would have been relevant to the FBI investigation”
Jared Ryle Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:18 a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
a16z Disclosure
Morell: Backed Apple over FBI in encryption debate to avoid vulnerabilities
“On the encryption debate, I was actually not where you would expect me to be. I was not on the side of the FBI. I was on Apple's side, because by forcing Apple to create a key for its keyless encryption, you were creating another huge security vulnerability.”
Michael Morell Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:15 a16z Podcast | For Your Ears Only
MAD Assertion Partly supported
Crouch: FBI's NCIC database receives around 8M daily law enforcement queries
“And that thing is actually hit by law enforcement officers around eight million times a day, just searching for people and places and things.”
Scott Crouch Apr 20, 2015 ▶ 7:42 Scott Crouch and EJ Bensing, Mark43 // Reimagining Police Software (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

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