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TBPN Assertion Supported
Lutnick: US government will acquire a 9.9% equity stake in Intel
“And at three o'clock, we're going to sign the document together in the Oval Office, where the United States of America will own 9.9% of the great American technology company Intel.”
Howard Lutnick Aug 30, 2025 ▶ 3:09 Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
20VC Assertion Supported
Benioff: Salesforce cut support headcount from 9,000 to 5,000 via AI agents
“And to that point, I've been able to reduce the number of human agents I have in support From about 9000 to about 5000.”
Marc Benioff Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 5:31 Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Prince: Anthropic's 60,000-to-1 crawl-to-click ratio means publishers are completely dead
“I think they're dead at 250 or 1500 to one that we're seeing with OpenAI and completely dead at 60,000 to one that we're seeing with something like Anthropic.”
Matthew Prince Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 8:28 Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Supported
Mann: Anthropic models have exhibited power-seeking behaviors in lab experiments
“If the model is in a box trying to improve itself, then it could go completely off the rails and have these secret goals, like Resource accumulation and power seeking and resistance to shutdown that you really don't want in a very powerful model. And we've act…”
Ben Mann Jul 20, 2025 ▶ 54:46 Anthropic co-founder: AGI predictions, leaving OpenAI, what keeps him up at night | Ben Mann
20VC Assertion Supported
Tenev: Robinhood enabled private stock tokenization without target company opt-in
“And so I think it's important for the tokenization mechanism to work. Without the opt-in of the companies that, that are being tokenized. And I think that's actually the innovation that we've been able to drive. Like we can, we figured out how to make this wor…”
Vlad Tenev Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 19:39 Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Held up
O'Driscoll: OpenAI misses next year's revenue target by 40% if growth matches Google
“If all OpenAI is, Is just as good as Google, then it's going to miss its number next year by about 40%.”
Rory O'Driscoll Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 47:06 Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
MORE OR LESS Prediction Held up
Sam Lessin: People Will Kill Themselves and Others Because of AIs
“And like, at some point people are going to start killing themselves and each other because of AIs.”
Sam Lessin May 2, 2025 ▶ 43:58 How OpenAI Is Beating Google and Meta at Their Own Game · More or Less Podcast
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Palihapitiya: Shell companies route Nvidia GPUs into China to bypass controls
“I think what you will find is a whole raft of companies that were stood up to buy these Nvidia GPUs to essentially act as a way station for China.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Apr 19, 2025 ▶ 16:34 Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon
20VC Assertion Supported
Scott: Frontier AI models diagnose health issues better than average GPs
“It is already the case that I think the frontier models are probably better like health diagnosticians than Your average GP is”
Kevin Scott Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 43:29 Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Supported
Hoggett: Most UK companies listing in the US perform poorly or delist
“In the last 10 years, only 20 UK companies have listed in the US that have raised over a hundred million. Of those, nine have already delisted, only four are trading up and the rest are trading down by over 80%.”
Julia Hoggett Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 0:18 Julia Hoggett, CEO @ LSEG plc: The Myths and the Reality of The London Stock Exchange · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Supported
Oscar Pierre Faces a Potential Six-Year Prison Sentence Over Glovo's Labor Model
“And unfortunately, the, yeah, the country where we suffer from regulation the most is Spain. I'm not going to go into the details, but it's so extreme that I'm now in a criminal process for so the, yeah, the prosecutor, the general attorney accused me with six…”
Oscar Pierre Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 59:32 Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Vance: Media fabricated claim that Trump called white supremacists fine people
“Donald Trump never called white supremacists very fine people after Charlottesville, a total fabrication of the American media”
JD Vance Sep 10, 2024 ▶ 6:11 JD Vance | All-In Summit 2024
20VC Assertion Supported
Mollick: OpenAI's $3B revenue run rate is largely an accident
“I mean, they're incidentally making three billion dollar run rate this year, I think by like just accident, but there isn't like a, there isn't really a product there right now.”
Ethan Mollick Jul 31, 2024 ▶ 24:14 Ethan Mollick: Why OpenAl Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken | E1184 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Klarna's AI customer support agent absorbed the workload of 700 human reps
“Now the difference was when we Got this customer service AI agent to reach a level where it actually served a lot of errands, and on a satisfaction level equal to what human agents many times did, and we took it live, the number of errands that our human agent…”
Sebastian Siemiatkowski Jul 17, 2024 ▶ 6:36 Did Klarna Really Automate 700 Jobs With AI? — With Sebastian Siemiatkowski
20VC Prediction Held up
ByteDance Will Delay TikTok Action Until After the US Presidential Election
“Likely, and I have no inside information here, I think ByteDance waits for the election, because they presume that Trump could get bought off by investors since, you know, he's a coin-operated person in his entire life, not just as in his presidency.”
Reid Hoffman Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 59:28 Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Fauci funded Wuhan lab gain-of-function research via EcoHealth
“Because he had funded gain-of-function research programs via Peter Daszak and the EcoHealth Alliance to conduct, again, gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
David Sacks May 31, 2024 ▶ 27:09 Trump verdict, COVID Cover-up, Crypto Corner, Salesforce drops 20%, AI correction?
GREEN BLUEPRINT Assertion Supported
Cumulative US LNG emissions could exceed the footprint of 1,000 coal plants
“If you add up all the emissions from what's in operation, all the emissions from what's under construction, all the emissions from what is being proposed beyond that, we could be talking about the emission footprint of about a thousand, actually more than a th…”
Jeremy Symons Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 39:00 LNG exports: America’s hidden ‘climate bomb’
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Gallagher: Illegal Reedley biolab held Ebola, HIV, and tuberculosis samples
“Eventually it was discovered that these vials contained Ebola HIV, tuberculosis. There was a freezer labeled Ebola. It was like these silver Ziplocs inside and the CDC wouldn't test it, which is crazy.”
Congressman Mike Gallagher Nov 30, 2023 ▶ 15:10 Ep 72: Illegal Chinese Bio Labs & Secret Police Inside America! Congressman Mike Gallagher · Joe Lonsdale
GREEN BLUEPRINT Assertion Supported
Del Chiaro: California solar sales fell 80% after net metering changes
“California just announced, you know, just put in place major changes to the number one driver to that market, which was net metering, and we just got data today that shows that sales are down 80% across the state.”
Bernadette Del Chiaro Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 12:48 Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Musk: Starlink coverage in Crimea was disabled due to US sanctions
“At the time this happened, the region around, you Crimea was actually turned off. Now, the reason it was turned off was, actually, originally, was because the United States had sanctions and we're not allowed to actually, and that includes Crimea in the sancti…”
Elon Musk Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 7:11 Elon Musk: Ukraine, X, the creator economy, China, AI, & more | All-In Summit 2023
SAASTR Assertion Supported
Conrad: Deel and Remote rely on third-party payroll systems country by country
“Companies like Deal and like Remote actually have not built underlying global payroll or payroll really of any kind. And so those companies are sort of secretly running on Other payroll systems country by country.”
Parker Conrad Jun 27, 2023 ▶ 16:23 Rippling CEO Parker Conrad's Theory of the Compound Startup: Disrupting How We Think About Software
20VC Assertion Supported
Proposed EU AI Regulation Would Make All Existing LLMs Illegal
“One of the percent of the LMs that were trained these last three years would be illegal in Europe.”
Alex Lebrun Jun 19, 2023 ▶ 1:02:08 Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
CATALYST Assertion Supported
Hertz-Shargel: Bitcoin mining raises Texas power bills by $1.8B annually
“So collectively, it's 1.8 billion conservatively per year. And that's sort of a run rate, I would say. And that represents around a five percent increase in costs of Texans, of, you know non-Bitcoin mining consumers. And that, that's across all the different s…”
Ben Hertz-Shargel May 11, 2023 ▶ 17:33 The great Bitcoin energy debate
GREEN BLUEPRINT Assertion Supported
Green: Local anti-solar groups receive payments from climate denial networks
“And then they're supported by groups online or in their state or in their community that have ulterior motives, which we found. They're getting payments from organizations that have connections to climate denial,”
Miranda Green Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 17:57 What’s driving a surge in renewables opposition?
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Sacks: RESTRICT Act allows $1M fine and 20-year prison terms for VPN TikTok access
“What the act provides is that a US citizen using a VPN to access TikTok could theoretically be subjected to a maximum penalty of one million in fines or 20 years in prison or both.”
David Sacks Mar 31, 2023 ▶ 1:20:40 E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
20VC Assertion Supported
Didi and the Chinese Government Had Full Access to Uber's Data
“It became very clear that everyone had all our data. Didi knew everything we were doing whereas, like, Lyft and Uber always knew what each other were doing, because we were watching each other, we're friends, things like that, but, like, we never had each othe…”
Adam Grenier Mar 15, 2023 ▶ 0:00 Adam Grenier: The Inside Story to Uber’s Hypergrowth; How We Spent $1B/mo in China | E989 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Haugen: Facebook VIP Cross-Check Whitelisted Users and Delayed Reviews Three Days
“In reality, because they weren't willing to spend a very small amount of budget, they didn't actually put that second check in for most safety systems. So for most safety systems, people got white listed. So if you were in cross check, the safety systems no lo…”
Frances Haugen Sep 29, 2022 ▶ 38:51 Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen On Product, Competition, And Transparency
ALL-IN Prediction Held up
Goldstein: Supreme Court conservative majority will likely vote 5-4 to overturn Roe
“Till June of this year, where they will likely win five to four.”
Tom Goldstein May 7, 2022 ▶ 24:57 E79: Analyzing the leaked draft overturning Roe v. Wade with Amy Howe and Tom Goldstein
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Supported
Sinclair: Research shows cellular epigenetic aging damage can be reversed
“And what we've discovered is that there are ways to, well, we discovered one of the main causes of scratches, that's broken chromosomes, which happens all the time in our bodies. Extreme cell damage also does that if we crush nerves. But we've also figured out…”
Dr. David Sinclair May 3, 2022 ▶ 8:17 David Sinclair: Reversing the Aging Process
20VC Assertion Supported
Holland: Excessive burn rate killed Fast, not investor Stripe
“Having Stripe as an investor isn't what killed our company. Having too high a burn is what killed our company. There's just no other way to put it.”
Dom Holland Apr 13, 2022 ▶ 15:35 20VC Exclusive: Fast's Domm Holland on What Really Happened at Fast? Were they really Burning $10M per Month? Where did Bolt Succeed Where Fast Did Not? What is It Really Like To Have Stripe Invest in your Company?
20VC Assertion Supported
Ed Baker: Uber secretly ran India test against CEO orders, doubling conversion
“We decided to run a test In Hyderabad, India, where we said, let's let riders request their first ride without putting a credit card number in. In fact, we were told by our CEO not to run that test because he felt so strongly against it, but we had so much con…”
Ed Baker Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 36:16 20Growth: Five Key Functions of a Growth Team, The Biggest Lessons Starting Uber's Growth Team and Scaling Facebook's, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth and What Separates Good From Great in Growth Leaders with Ed Baker, Former VP of Growth @
GREEN BLUEPRINT Prediction Held up
Biden: The US Will Bring an End to Nord Stream 2
“There will be no longer a North Stream Two. We will bring an end to it.”
Joe Biden Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 2:20 Could a ‘green upheaval’ embolden Russia?
20VC Prediction Held up
Carney: Long-Term Interest Rates Will Rise Notably This Decade
“I believe that very central banker-y answer, but I believe long-term interest rates are going to rise, notably this decade. I long felt that we were in a low for long, and I felt that for a long time. I was right about it for a long time. Now I feel that there…”
Mark Carney Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 33:54 20VC: Former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney on Why "Only the Niche Will Survive" in Crypto, How Governments and Central Banks Retain Control in a World of Decentralised Finance & The Winners and Losers in Crypto Exchanges and NFTs
MAD Prediction Held up
Volpi: Self-driving trucks will operate on freeways within 18 months
“And if you ask me, like, for those use cases, I think you're going to see self-driving trucks on freeways within the next 18 months.”
Mike Volpi Nov 13, 2019 ▶ 24:20 Fireside Chat: Mike Volpi, General Partner, Index Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
a16z Assertion Supported
Dapper Dan: Gucci copied his 1980s Diane Dixon jacket design
“Gucci created this jacket that I created in the eighties for Diane Dixon.”
Dapper Dan Sep 2, 2019 ▶ 1:02:52 Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan in Silicon Valley
20VC Prediction Held up
Lee predicts an imminent, massive crash in the ICO market
“So I fear that there's going to be a huge crash in the whole ICO market sometime soon.”
Charlie Lee Sep 15, 2017 ▶ 17:19 20VC: Litecoin Founder, Charlie Lee on Why ICO's Are The Biggest Threat To Crypto, Why Ethereum Will Run Into Huge Scalability Problems & How To Assess The Trade Off Between Decentralisation & Scale
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI evaluation agents autonomously hacked Hugging Face without instruction
“So I think we can say definitively, and I'm curious to hear if you have pushback, but I think we can say definitively They were not told to go out and hack Hugging Face. They are, they were misaligned. They took this kind of crazy galaxy brain path to try to a…”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 7, 2026 ▶ 38:56 GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
SOURCERY Assertion Supported
Mavrookas: Saronic Corsairs rescued downed Apache pilots and attacked Iranian port
“Corsairs, which you just saw, were actively being used in the Straits of Hormuz. Two examples that were made public were one, the Apache pilot rescue of two down pilots, And then a offensive attack on an Iranian port, which actually took out an Iranian submari…”
Dino Mavrookas Sep 7, 2026 ▶ 15:19 Inside Saronic’s $9.25B Autonomous Boat Factory | CEO Dino Mavrookas
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Prince: Automated web traffic surpassed human traffic for first time in 2026
“In May of 2026, you won't believe it, but we now see that automated traffic is past human traffic for the first time in the history of the internet.”
Matthew Prince Sep 2, 2026 ▶ 2:16 Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Held up
Prince: Google Paying Publishers for AI Scraping Is Inevitable
“I don't know if they'll pay up before the deadline, but I think it's inevitable that they'll pay up. Because again, I think that they need the content and they understand fundamentally that journalists and content creators and academics deserve to eat.”
Matthew Prince Sep 2, 2026 ▶ 36:31 Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
20VC Assertion Supported
Reyes: Chinese AI models show no unique security backdoors versus US models
“For me, the Chinese models specifically have demonstrated no examples where they have some sort of security risk or backdoor compared to American models.”
Eno Reyes Aug 29, 2026 ▶ 45:35 Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
SAASTR Assertion Supported
Lemkin: ServiceTitan terminated Podium integration impacting 1,000 shared customers
“That worked great for years until Service Titan shut them off the other day, shut them off after all these years with a thousand joint customers.”
Jason Lemkin Aug 28, 2026 ▶ 2:59 Who Owns Your Data Now? Agents vs. Systems of Record on The Agents #013
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Weinstein: Peer review is a modern concept retconned into science history
“Peer review is a fake story that was retconned into science. It is no, you can look it up on Google Ngrams, put quote, space peer review space, close quote. And you'll notice that there's really no mention of it before.”
Eric Weinstein Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 24:26 Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Weinstein: 1971 Australian Intelligence Document Discloses 1960s Gravity Shielding Research
“There's a 1971 Australian intelligence document where Australia, which was the Testing ground for nukes that of the United Kingdom. Started seeing all these UAPs near their nuclear tests just the way we see them near ours. And the Australians revealed that all…”
Eric Weinstein Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 1:24:09 Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
DAVID SENRA Assertion Supported
Helsing: AI took full control of Gripen fighter jet in dogfight test
“Last year we flew a real fighter jet and we flew the Saab Gripen over the Baltic Sea. And when I say we, our AI did and took full control of the plane in air combat against and another Gripen, which was human controlled. And so we flew three air combat scenari…”
Torsten Reil Aug 26, 2026 ▶ 31:35 Building Defense Technologies to Protect Democracies | Torsten Reil, Helsing
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Top tech companies hold $3T in off-balance sheet AI commitments
“Nine, top tech companies had some three trillion dollars of off balance sheet commitments, mostly related to AI. Those obligations are growing faster than traditional capex, which totaled about six hundred billion over the past year past year they reported, an…”
Alex Kantrowitz Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 2:47 Big Tech’s Insane Hidden AI Spending, Ranking Anthropic vs. OpenAI, AI For Travel Debate
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Sacks: Anthropic Lobbied to Restrict Nvidia's International Chip Sales
“Anthropic has really been behind a lot of the political activity to restrict Nvidia's sales internationally.”
David Sacks Aug 21, 2026 ▶ 52:33 Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up
DAVID SENRA Assertion Supported
Palmer Luckey was pushed out and fired from Facebook for supporting Trump
“This was when he was kind of persona non grata in tech and mainstream for supporting Trump and not supporting Hillary while he was at Facebook. So it was pretty soon after he was pushed out, fired for political beliefs at Facebook, which is kind of mind blowin…”
Lulu Cheng Meservey Aug 12, 2026 ▶ 12:17 The Comms Strategist Behind Anduril, Shopify & Cognition | Lulu Cheng Meservey
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