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DAVID SENRA Assertion Contradicted
Kalanick: Uber never passed anti-competitor regulations or donated to political campaigns
“We had never at Uber, we never Got a regulation passed that would hurt a competitor. We never would do that. That's just not how we rolled. We never donated to a campaign. Ever. To try to get something passed.”
Travis Kalanick Aug 16, 2026 ▶ 32:27 Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Tan: San Francisco ABC affiliate refused to cover anti-Asian hate crimes
“ABC News you know, literally the mainstream media TV channel of San Francisco and the Bay Area would not cover anti-Chinese and anti-Asian crime.”
Garry Tan Aug 11, 2026 ▶ 48:08 Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
INVEST LIKE THE BEST Assertion Contradicted
Altman: AI giants like LeCun told journalists OpenAI wouldn't work
“When we first announced OpenAI, all of these, like, you know, giants of the field, these experts were saying, this is like insane. It's hypey. It's irresponsible. Really respected people like Yann LeCun or whatever, telling journalists like, oh, these guys are…”
Sam Altman Jul 28, 2026 ▶ 42:45 Sam Altman on AGI, Compute, and Human Agency · Invest Like The Best
SOURCERY Assertion Contradicted
Liang: SambaNova 10kW SN40 rack outperformed 140kW Nvidia GPU racks
“And so by the time we released SN-Forty a couple years ago, it became incredibly popular, because instead of a 130, a 140 kilowatt rack of NVIDIA GPU, we were outperforming them with a 10 kilowatt SN-Forty rack.”
Rodrigo Liang Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 5:52 Inference 101: SambaNova CEO Rodrigo Liang · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Stebbings: VC firms need a $400M fund to lead Series A today
“You can't do Series A unless you have a four hundred million dollar fund today. Absolutely no chance.”
Harry Stebbings Jul 6, 2026 ▶ 43:13 Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Contradicted
Dan Mishin: The vast majority of top AI engineers are in China
“Vast majority of best AI engineers in the world are in China today.”
Dan Mishin Jun 15, 2026 ▶ 14:15 He quit his $50M ARR startup to work as a paralegal—then raised a $60M Series A. | Dan Mishin, Fo... · PMF Show
TBPN Assertion Contradicted
Prince: A Golf Course Uses More Water Than All US Data Centers
“A golf course uses more water than probably all the data centers in the United States over, over the course of a year.”
Matthew Prince Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 17:39 Cloudflare CEO Predicts AI Agents Will Outnumber Humans 1,000-to-1
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Contradicted
Lonsdale: Russia funded European green parties to halt fracking and eliminate competition
“They funded the green parties, they funded the protests, and they turned off fracking in Europe because it's so good for the environment. They tricked everyone because obviously they don't want competition.”
Joe Lonsdale Jun 5, 2026 ▶ 21:16 SpaceX’s Secret, Nuclear's Rebirth, and the AI Power Crisis · Joe Lonsdale
MORE OR LESS Assertion Contradicted
Forensic experts proved China is funding opposition to Utah data center
“And then he hired forensic experts to go and factually prove that it is China actually funding all of this opposition in Utah. And he actually mapped it a lot. You can go look on his Twitter and Instagram and he shares all of the data. And apparently has now s…”
Dave Morin May 29, 2026 ▶ 14:12 Normal People Don't Want AI Agents (And Silicon Valley Can't Accept It) · More or Less Podcast
20VC Prediction Didn’t hold up
O'Driscoll: Software valuations will never reach 20x revenue multiples again
“Give me 30% growth, give me profits, give me a story that's got some future in it, and I'll get you back to five times. I'll never give you 20 times again. I won't fall for that one this time.”
Rory O'Driscoll May 14, 2026 ▶ 46:14 Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
NO PRIORS Assertion Contradicted
Helberg: Belt and Road countries frequently default, yielding equity to China
“It is Chinese workers, Chinese companies, you know, and a lot of the times it's Chinese equity because the debt converts to equity if, you know, the host country defaults. They do a lot of the times.”
Jacob Helberg May 14, 2026 ▶ 11:59 Pax Silica: Inside the Trump Administration’s Tech Strategy with Jacob Helberg
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Pratt: LADWP drained Palisades Reservoir in June 2024
“Janice Quinonez, the LADW, Drain that reservoir in June of twenty-twenty-four.”
Spencer Pratt May 10, 2026 ▶ 6:34 Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Pratt: LA City never requested fixed-wing air support during wildfire
“So L.A. City never even called in fixed air wing support to drop water.”
Spencer Pratt May 10, 2026 ▶ 9:35 Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Pratt: 90% of unhoused people in Los Angeles are drug addicts
“90% of these people are drug addicts.”
Spencer Pratt May 10, 2026 ▶ 19:49 Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back
ALL-IN Prediction Didn’t hold up
Pratt predicts he will win LA mayoral election on June 2 with 51% vote
“I keep telling people I'm gonna win on June second with 51% of the vote.”
Spencer Pratt May 10, 2026 ▶ 46:50 Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Hilton: Labor unions file most CEQA lawsuits blocking housing
“Most of those lawsuits are filed by unions.”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 31:49 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Hilton: CARB only counts imported oil emissions within 12 miles offshore
“CARB, the California Air Resources Board, which is obsessed with having all other businesses account for their carbon emissions right down the supply chain. Miraculously, the carbon emissions for the oil imports are only counted from when they're 12 miles off …”
Steve Hilton Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 41:19 CA Governor Candidate Steve Hilton on Why California is Destroying Itself & How a Republican Can Win
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Contradicted
Sandler: Milken pleaded to offenses never criminally prosecuted before or since
“None of which, and this is why I go in great detail in the book so people understand how in many ways ridiculous it is, none of which had ever been the subject of a criminal prosecution before or since.”
Richard Sandler Apr 24, 2026 ▶ 30:01 From Wall Street King to Federal Prison: Michael Milken's Story · Joe Lonsdale
INVEST LIKE THE BEST Assertion Contradicted
Patel: Anthropic's ARR has surged to between $35B and $40B
“Anthropic has gone from nine billion revenue to what they're at, 35, forty billion. Now probably by the time this airs, 40, forty-five billion. Who knows? ARR.”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 11:20 The Supply and Demand of AI Tokens | Dylan Patel Interview · Invest Like The Best
LATENT SPACE Assertion Contradicted
Andreessen: Three-year-old Nvidia chips make more money today than when new
“The current models are getting better faster at such a rate that if you are running an NVIDIA, if you're running an NVIDIA inference chip today that's three years old, you're making more money on it today than you did three years ago. Because the pace of impro…”
Marc Andreessen Apr 3, 2026 ▶ 23:23 Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
LATENT SPACE Prediction Didn’t hold up
Andreessen: AI will never transform existing US K-12 public classrooms
“How are we going to apply AI in education? The answer is we're not because it's a literal government monopoly. It is never going to change the end, and there is nothing to do. By the way, you can create an entirely new school system. Like that's the one thing …”
Marc Andreessen Apr 3, 2026 ▶ 1:15:04 Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Contradicted
Liemandt: Paper shows 50% of UCSD freshmen cannot answer fifth-grade questions
“I think UC San Diego, one of the top schools, universities in our country, right? Just published a paper that, like, 50% of their freshmen can't answer fifth grade questions.”
Joe Liemandt Mar 31, 2026 ▶ 28:34 Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Jensen Huang: Nvidia's market share in China fell from 95% to 0%
“At the current moment as we speak, NVIDIA gave up a 95% market share in the second largest market in the world, and we're at zero percent.”
Jensen Huang Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 34:29 Jensen Huang: Nvidia's Future, Physical AI, Rise of the Agent, Inference Explosion, AI PR Crisis
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Fetterman says he is the only Democrat advocating to destroy Iran's regime
“I am literally the only Democrat in America in Congress that I've come across that saying, I think it's a great thing to break and destroy the Iranian regime.”
John Fetterman Mar 18, 2026 ▶ 9:27 John Fetterman: 'I'm the Only Democrat in Congress Saying This'
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Chamath: Agent-written code caused three or four SEV-1 outages at AWS
“Why does Amazon issue an edict that says you cannot use this stuff inside of AWS unless a human now reviews and approves it? Because what happened? They had three or four SEV-ONE faults from a bunch of code that was written by agents that brought down AWS.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 34:14 Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Gerstner: Anthropic generating $5B to $6B in a single month
“We're seeing companies like Anthropic at five or six billion dollars of revenue in a single month, which is extraordinary.”
Brad Gerstner Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 1:06:22 Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Contradicted
Loeffler: Biden Administration Tried to Forgive $200B in Pandemic Loans
“The Biden administration tried to forgive those loans, sweep it under the rug to the tune of about two hundred billion dollars.”
Kelly Loeffler Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 16:59 Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Emil Michael: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called Donald Trump a 'wannabe dictator'
“You called president Trump and your 5000 word essay on Friday, a wannabe dictator. You're gonna have to apologize to more people than just me.”
Emil Michael Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 1:10:52 War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
BIGDEAL Assertion Contradicted
Gurley: Anthropic funds more lobbyists advocating for AI regulation than anyone else
“No one's funding more lobbyists begging for AI regulation than Anthropic themselves.”
Bill Gurley Mar 4, 2026 ▶ 45:13 The Most Important Career Advice You'll Ever Hear (In The AI Era) | Bill Gurley
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Contradicted
Make Magazine's first issue perfectly described Square's card reader design
“If you want to know the real story, just get the first issue of Make Magazine. It's publicly available. It describes exactly what we were building, and I knew that when I went to Bob.”
Jim McKelvey Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 57:47 Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company
ALL-IN Prediction Didn’t hold up
Sacks predicts AI will increase demand for knowledge workers
“As you may recall on the prediction show for this year, my most contrarian belief is that AI would increase demand for knowledge workers, not put them out of business.”
David Sacks Feb 13, 2026 ▶ 1:10 Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Contradicted
Baratz claims all other quantum computing companies remain purely in R&D
“Unlike any other quantum computing company, which is entirely In the R&D and research experimentation mode, we have commercial systems, so we're also focused on building the business.”
Dr. Alan Baratz Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 14:17 Live From D-Wave Qubits: CEO Dr. Alan Baratz on Quantum's Impact, Now and Into The Future
INVEST LIKE THE BEST Assertion Contradicted
Horowitz: Biden executive order required federal approval to sell GPUs
“The last Biden administration executive order said that you could not sell a GPU without federal government approval. Like, that was a real executive order, and that got reversed, but like, we were that close. To being basically out of the global chip game.”
Ben Horowitz Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 5:25 Why The Laws of Startup Physics Have Changed | Ben Horowitz Interview · Invest Like The Best
TBPN Assertion Contradicted
Coogan: 17% of Tracked Tech Figures Appeared in Epstein Emails
“Big tech alerts that around 17% of the people that we track with this account are on the Epstein emails.”
John Coogan Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 18:17 Moltbook goes viral, $100B OpenAI-Nvidia deal stalled, SpaceX merges with xAI | Diet TBPN
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Sachs: Minnesota released roughly 470 convicted illegal immigrants last year
“Last year, there was something like 470 convicts, ok, illegal aliens, criminals. And I'm not talking about that their crime wasn't breaking into the country. I'm talking about subsequent crimes that were released In Minnesota, so they cannot be rounded up by I…”
David Sacks Jan 31, 2026 ▶ 42:24 ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Dr. Oz: Miami Mayor reduced homelessness 90% via mandatory rehab arrests
“Mayor Suarez in Miami dropped a number by 90% and he did it just by making sure that you got arrested every time you peed publicly and they don't put you in jail. They put you in, in rehab.”
Dr. Mehmet Oz Jan 24, 2026 ▶ 1:00:23 Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Makary claims 14% of all NIH grants went to DEI research
“14% of any NIH grants went to DEI research.”
Dr. Marty Makary Jan 15, 2026 ▶ 47:59 Supercharging a New FDA: Marty Makary on Science, Power & Patients
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Chad Peet: Fired sales reps in France and Germany stay on payroll for a year
“Go to Germany and France, I can't fire people. Like, dude, they're on, I, they'll be on the books for a year after you want to get rid of them.”
Chad Peets Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 32:52 20Sales: Why the Best Sales People are F**** in the Head | Why Remote Work is BS | Why Europe is a Nightmare for Recruiting Sales Teams | How to Build a Sales Machine | What Everyone Gets Wrong Today in Sales with Chad Peets
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Lutnick: Tariff revenues fund proposed tax exemptions on tips and Social Security
“Who paid for no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social security. Right? Tariffs.”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 35:18 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Lutnick: Ozempic and Mounjaro added to Medicare and Medicaid for $149
“So, the result is Ozempic and Munjara are on Medicaid and Medicare. For a hundred and 49 dollars instead of not on it.”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 48:54 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Lutnick: Merck agreed to offer top drug free to Medicare and Medicaid
“One of the drug companies, Merck, said they're gonna just give us their number one drug in the world. They're gonna give it to Medicaid and Medicare for zero.”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 49:35 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
LATENT SPACE Assertion Contradicted
Hill-Smith: Google used unpublished 32-shot CoT to claim Gemini beat GPT-4
“Back when I'm Googled a Gemini one when I ultra and needed a number that would say it was better than GPT four. And Like, constructed I think never published, like, chain of thought examples, 32 of them in every topic in MLU to run it, to get the score.”
Micah Hill-Smith Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 8:36 Artificial Analysis: The Independent LLM Analysis House — with George Cameron and Micah Hill-Smith
NO PRIORS Assertion Contradicted
Huang: China contributes more to open source than any other country
“No country in the world contributes more to open source than China.”
Jensen Huang Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 1:04:09 NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang on Reasoning Models, Robotics, and Refuting the “AI Bubble” Narrative
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Sacks: Rep. Ilhan Omar went from negative net worth to multi-millionaire
“But still, she went from negative to being a multi-millionaire in two years.”
David Sacks Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 36:59 Massive Somali Fraud in Minnesota with Nick Shirley, California Asset Seizure, $20B Groq-Nvidia Deal
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Contradicted
Poilievre: Bill C-11 lets CRTC manipulate social algorithms
“We've seen this government has been trying to concentrate more and more media power, whether it's through C-Eleven Which allows the CRTC to manipulate social media algorithms to favor certain types of media”
Pierre Poilievre Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 36:14 Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Tony Hinchcliffe: Trump saw 20% Puerto Rican support bump in Pennsylvania
“20% Puerto Rican increase in the state of Pennsylvania.”
Tony Hinchcliffe Dec 24, 2025 ▶ 19:09 All-In x Kill Tony: A Hilarious Holiday Special
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
David Sacks: 50% of Stanford students claim disabled status for test accommodations
“At Stanford, they said that if you're disabled, you get more time on tests, and you can kind of be unproctored, and kind of... Accommodations. Right. So now, 50% of students at Stanford say they're disabled.”
David Sacks Dec 24, 2025 ▶ 1:13:07 All-In x Kill Tony: A Hilarious Holiday Special
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Horowitz: Post-Rampart LAPD recruited gang members who killed Notorious B.I.G.
“What happened in the LAPD with the Rampart scandal right after the Rodney King incident They had the same kind of thing. Everybody got fired, et cetera. They had trouble recruiting. They started recruiting people out of gangs and those gang members ended up, y…”
Ben Horowitz Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 5:01 “How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
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