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a16z Assertion Contradicted
Horowitz: LAPD corruption and rogue officers protected Tupac Shakur's killers
“Well, in that case, the LAPD was corrupt, and the, well, there were literally criminals in the police force protecting the criminals who killed Tupac, and, you know, thankfully, we kind of reopened the cold case, and we caught the guy, but it's,”
Ben Horowitz Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 48:45 “How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
20VC Assertion Contradicted
a16z's larger venture funds consistently outperform its smaller funds
“Our funds consistently beat small, large, Diversified, concentrated venture funds. So our larger funds have outperformed our smaller ones, and our larger ones actually have similar multiples of money to our smaller ones across, across strategies.”
David George Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 2:00 a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Chamath claims specialized power grid electricians earn up to $800,000 annually
“These electricians now get paid five, six, seven, 800,000 dollars a year, which by the way, just FYI, is more than most engineers in Silicon Valley, ok?”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 13, 2025 ▶ 1:10:06 Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
SAASTR Prediction Didn’t hold up
Lemkin: Most SDRs and qualifying BDRs will be eliminated by 2026
“And I really think most SDRs will die next year, but the meat, and I know we throw around these terms differently. The BDR that sort of smarmily qualifies you that that's going to die. Like we just, there's no need for that with these tools.”
Jason Lemkin Dec 10, 2025 ▶ 28:59 How to Use AI to Hyper-Customize Go-To-Market at Scale with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Contradicted
Luria: OpenAI is a negative gross margin business
“Open AI is a negative gross margin business. They claim they're not, but they are right. Which is to say it costs them more to answer your chat GPT question than they make revenue from you.”
Gil Luria Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 41:07 AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Musk: UK has 2,000 to 3,000 people imprisoned for social media posts
“My understanding is that in the UK, there's something like two or 3000 people in prison for social media posts.”
Elon Musk Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 42:00 Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Andreessen: Albert Einstein was pro-Stalin and favored a communist dictatorship
“Einstein was the exact opposite of a moral exemplar. Einstein was Stalinist. Like, Einstein was, like, a full-on, like, Einstein was pro-Stolic, like, not even just pro-communist, was actually, like, pro-Stalin, and Einstein thought, but, like, American democr…”
Marc Andreessen Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 1:01:20 Marc Andreessen: How Movies Explain America
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Manchin claims climate protesters at his houseboat were organized and paid
“Oh, no, that was organized. They were paid, Shamath, because a lot of my friends who live on the, down at the river, on the Potomac River with me, on the boat, They played like, how can I get a job with you? How can I do this if I want to protest? They said, I…”
Joe Manchin Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 19:20 Joe Manchin Exposes The Chaos Inside Biden’s White House
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Sramek: China's Zhongjing Island shipyard outproduced post-WWII US total last year
“Zhongjing Island shipyard in China built more ships last year than we have built collectively in the United States since the end of the Second World War.”
Jan Sramek Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 6:22 California Forever: The Startup Building America's Next Great City
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Sacks: Most San Francisco homeless individuals moved there from outside the city
“The homeless we have in San Francisco are not predominantly from San Francisco. They're from all over the country, all over the surrounding area. They come here for the benefits.”
David Sacks Oct 18, 2025 ▶ 16:47 Trump: Send National Guard to SF, China Rare Earths Trade War, AI's PR Crisis
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Contradicted
Liemandt: Paying students directly is the most effective educational incentive
“Yeah. No, paying the kids is by far the most effective way to do it. And you can get, you know, big effect size on, on doing this. It really works.”
Joe Liemandt Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 10:54 Secret Tech Billionaire Is Betting $1B on This · Joe Lonsdale
TBPN Assertion Contradicted
Salesforce Research invented AI prompt engineering, claims Marc Benioff
“We invented prompt engineering, the first prompt right here at Salesforce Research, commercialized by others, of course.”
Marc Benioff Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 6:45 Marc Benioff on AI Agents' Biggest Problem
TBPN Assertion Contradicted
Benioff claims Salesforce sold cybersecurity company Wiz to Google
“You know, we just sold a company to Google, which is Wiz, the security company.”
Marc Benioff Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 11:47 Marc Benioff on AI Agents' Biggest Problem
LATENT SPACE Prediction Didn’t hold up
Swix: OpenAI will issue a cryptocurrency token to fund compute
“There is still one more shoe to drop, which is the non sovereign wealth funding that open AI needs to get, which they've promised to drop by the end of this year. And my money is on, they have to do a coin. Like it's, I'm not a crypto guy at all, but like, y…”
Shawn Wang Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 49:13 Why RL Won — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe (acq. CoreWeave)
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Sacks: Donald Trump ended seven wars in seven months
“President Trump has ended seven wars in seven months before this one.”
David Sacks Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 13:10 Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Contradicted
Lonsdale claims Biden's HUD forced facilities to allow drug use
“For a while, HUD, the national government was actually coming in under the Biden administration, and it was forcing people to allow people to use drugs in their treatment areas”
Joe Lonsdale Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 15:55 How this Governor is Proving Trump Right · Joe Lonsdale
LATENT SPACE Assertion Contradicted
Feldman: Cerebras is 20 times faster than Nvidia B200 GPUs
“Really focused on performance, both for training and for inference. You think 20 times faster than Nvidia B 200 GPUs and it's been an amazing run.”
Andrew Feldman Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 3:05 ⚡️Raising $1.1b to build the fastest LLM Chips on Earth — Andrew Feldman, Cerebras
CHEEKY PINT Assertion Contradicted
Andreessen: US dockworker agreements paid one non-working person per active worker
“One of the things that we, that was discovered during that process that I didn't know is that in prior union agreements with the dock workers, they already had a one-to-one ratio of people sitting at home doing nothing to every productive dock worker as a cons…”
Marc Andreessen Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 1:09:39 Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
LATENT SPACE Assertion Contradicted
Bachman: Models claiming 256k+ context use windowed transformers, discarding data
“Anybody who says they're using a transformer With a context length of, you know, 256,000 or more, they're not using a true transformer. What they're using is a windowed transformer that essentially throws out a huge amount of its information at various layers …”
Diego Bachman Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 2:58 ⚡️ Beyond Transformers with Power Retention
SAASTR Prediction Didn’t hold up
Cabane: ChatGPT will drive 25% to 33% of traffic in nine months
“I believe we're going to a webless world. I believe GPT is going to be like a quarter to a third of the traffic and nine months from now, right?”
Guillaume Cabane Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 29:58 Swapping Notes on the AI Revolution in Marketing with G2's CMO Sydney Sloan
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Alex Schultz admits Meta's Llama 4 missed the leading edge
“It's pretty clear Llama was not, like, Llama four wasn't leading edge where Llama three was. So, you know, our big release this year was not a slam dunk, but our big release last year was, and I'm pretty confident our next big release will be again.”
Alex Schultz Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 32:37 20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Rand Paul: Fauci privately admitted a 50-50 chance COVID originated from a lab
“In private, Anthony Fauci is saying, I'm fifty-fifty, whether this came from the lab or animals.”
Rand Paul Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 50:25 Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Paul: An NIH foundation holds $1.2 trillion in Big Pharma vaccine revenue
“There's an NIH foundation that has 1.2 trillion dollars in it given from Big Pharma for their share of the COVID vaccine.”
Rand Paul Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 51:53 Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America
WTF Prediction Didn’t hold up
Sharma: India will never sustain an annual GDP growth rate above 6%
“And therefore we'll never grow at a rate of more than six percent on a sustained basis has been my view for a very long period of time.”
Ruchir Sharma Sep 3, 2025 ▶ 48:38 India vs. China vs. US: Who Wins the Next Decade? | WTF is Finance | Ep 1 ft. Ruchir Sharma · Nikhil Kamath
TBPN Assertion Contradicted
Dr. Drew: Microdosing and ayahuasca categorically cause severe psychiatric problems
“The AI world is populated by people that microdose on acid and do ayahuasca, which I tell you, it categorically causes severe psychiatric problems. I've seen it my entire career.”
Dr. Drew Pinsky Aug 30, 2025 ▶ 1:23:30 Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Chamath: A top-performing VC fund has zero correlation with the next fund
“Having a killer fund has zero correlation with your ability to then have a next killer fund.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 11:49 Every Investor Needs To Understand This Concept - David Friedberg
GREEN BLUEPRINT Assertion Contradicted
Hickenlooper: House reconciliation bill proposed taxing all wind and solar energy
“The House bill came over and it had a tax on all wind energy and solar energy. So no, no longer are we going to give them tax credits, but we're going to, you know, we're going to tax them.”
John Hickenlooper Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 18:21 John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Schmitt: Fauci deposition revealed efforts to undermine Jay Bhattacharya over natural immunity
“When we had the opportunity to take Anthony Fauci's deposition at NIH that was mind blowing. It's only the second time his deposition was taken and we find out all the links that which he went to undermine people like, by the way, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who was…”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 28:18 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Schmitt: Released DNI documents show Clinton was Russia's preferred candidate
“Actually in the documents that were released by Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, was that Hillary Clinton was the preferred candidate. They had the goods on her. They had her medical records, all this stuff. So Trump was not like this pref…”
Senator Eric Schmitt Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 34:03 Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Chamath: Top venture fund performance has zero correlation with next fund success
“Having a killer fund has zero correlation with your ability to then have a next killer fund as an LP.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Aug 15, 2025 ▶ 1:23:01 AI Psychosis, America's Broken Social Fabric, Trump Takes Over DC Police, Is VC Broken?
ALL-IN Prediction Didn’t hold up
Baker: Zohran Mamdani will almost certainly win NYC mayoral election
“Unless Adams or Cuomo pulls out, he's almost certainly going to win.”
Gavin Baker Aug 9, 2025 ▶ 1:02:07 OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
SOURCERY Assertion Contradicted
Taylor: Russia funded German environmental groups to shut down nuclear reactors
“This was sort of a theory for a long time, but it's actually proven now that this did happen in Europe over the last 10 years. So Russian groups funded far left environmental groups in Germany to shut the reactors down in order, you know, to make it so that Ge…”
Isaiah Taylor Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 12:15 Nuclear Race to Power Superintelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Databricks is growing at three times the rate of Snowflake
“And if you look at it too, right, we're three times their growth rate.”
Ron Gabrisko Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 59:44 20Sales: $0-$3.7BN: The Databricks CRO's Playbook to Build the Fastest GTM Engine in SaaS History | How Databricks Beat Snowflake | How To Build a Sales Org of 5,000 and Close $190M Deals with Ron Gabrisko
WTF Assertion Contradicted
Khosla: The vast majority of crypto use cases are illegal
“So the vast majority of uses of crypto are illegal stuff. Gun trades, drug trades sex trafficking. Arms trades. It's the worst use of crypto.”
Vinod Khosla Aug 2, 2025 ▶ 1:18:25 Vinod Khosla: College Degrees Are Becoming Useless | People by WTF | Episode 12 · Nikhil Kamath
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Wright: All US batteries combined store five minutes of grid power
“If you take all the batteries in the United States, you could store five minutes of power.”
Chris Wright Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 21:59 Winning the AI Race Part 4: Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, Chris Wright, and Doug Burgum
ALL-IN Prediction Didn’t hold up
Vance predicts US will see net negative immigration in 2025
“I think in 2025, we will have the first net negative immigration number in about 50 or 60 years in the United States”
JD Vance Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 2:46 Winning the AI Race Part 2: Vice President JD Vance
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Loeffler: Biden administration banned SBA loans for purchasing AI technology
“In fact, with regard to AI, the Biden administration banned the use of SBA based loans for use of purchasing technology and AI.”
Kelly Loeffler Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 1:18:04 Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Ulevitch: Taiwan is seven days from a blackout under a Chinese blockade
“This is an island country. That is, you know, seven days away from a total energy block, blackout if they get an oil and gas blockade from China so that they can't bring in ships to deliver oil and fuel.”
David Ulevitch Jul 16, 2025 ▶ 28:13 America's Energy Problem: We Need A New Grid
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Rabois: US educational metrics uniformly declined since Department of Education's 1979 creation
“Every single educational stat has got worse in the United States since the department was created.”
Keith Rabois Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 1:22:27 Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Didn’t hold up
Petersen: U.S. trade tariffs will decrease American manufacturing
“What we've seen over the last few weeks is it's gonna decrease American manufacturing.”
Ryan Petersen Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 10:42 Is The U.S. Losing Trump's Trade War? — Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen
TBPN Assertion Contradicted
DiRico: Rainmaker suspended Texas cloud seeding over two days before floods
“It was over two days prior that Rainmaker had suspended all of its cloud seeding operations in Texas, because one, our forecasters and our meteorologists saw that there was going to be this severe weather event, and we needn't operate to produce more water whe…”
Augustus Doricko Jul 8, 2025 ▶ 6:25 RAINMAKER CEO Speaks Out on Texas Flood Controversy
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Contradicted
Hilton: I was the first TV host to link COVID to Fauci
“I was the first on TV to lay out all the evidence showing that it was Fauci's experiments that were the origin of the pandemic.”
Steve Hilton Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 15:23 Why California is Collapsing From Within · Joe Lonsdale
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Robbins: 60% of people using drugs or therapy for depression see zero improvement
“60% of the people who use drugs or therapy to try and get out of depression, make zero improvements.”
Tony Robbins Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 14:55 Tony Robbins | All-In Live from Miami
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Carlson: Nearly 50 million undocumented immigrants live in the US
“The real number is not twenty million, it's closer to fifty million, I think that's true illegals in the United States.”
Tucker Carlson Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 21:00 Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
MY FIRST MILLION Prediction Didn’t hold up
Lemkin: There will be no BDRs in one year
“There will be no BDRs in a year.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 1:03:39 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Marc Andreessen: Russian Facebook ad spend during 2016 election was only $80,000
“I think the result of it was, I think it was a result of 80,000 dollars of ad spend by the Russians in, in the relevant period of the election. It was like a total of like a 140,000, but during the actual run of the election, it was 80,000 dollars, and so the …”
Marc Andreessen Jun 2, 2025 ▶ 7:56 Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
20VC Prediction Didn’t hold up
Lemkin: OpenAI's hardware device will launch within a year for $20
“This is going to be huge. It will launch in a year. It will be massively subsidized. So it'll be 20 bucks for this device. Okay. They will figure out the form factor. I don't know what the right combination is, whether it's embedded in your ear, like the baris…”
Jason Lemkin May 29, 2025 ▶ 47:53 OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Gracias: Biden administration raised citizenship database API fees, deterring states
“In the Biden administration, they raised the price, when I think about a dollar, an API call, to three dollars and change the API call, and all the states stop using it.”
Antonio Gracias May 21, 2025 ▶ 21:25 Antonio Gracias: DOGE updates, Voter fraud, Finding 'Big Balls' | All-In Live from Miami
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