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PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Contradicted
Loiacono: Competing PBMs Faked Mandatory Federal Compensation Disclosures in 2023
“23 people needed to start reporting this information, people being pharmacy benefit managers and administrators like ourselves, Had to start reporting this information. And what we realized is people were faking it. They either weren't doing it or they were pr…”
AJ Loiacono Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 32:22 He spent $0 on marketing—raised $400M at $3.25B valuation | Judi Health
SOURCERY Assertion Contradicted
Sadeghi: Nucleus is the first company to optimize embryos for IQ
“This is the first time a company has partnered with a couple who have optimized their embryos on the basis of intelligence.”
Kian Sadeghi Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 1:41 Nucleus Launches First Genetically Optimized Embryo · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Gracias: DOGE found thousands of non-citizens on voter rolls in four states
“We looked at the voter rolls. We found these people, thousands of them on the voter rolls, and we found many of those people had voted, right? In one state in particular, well over a thousand voted.”
Antonio Gracias Apr 4, 2025 ▶ 28:20 DOGE updates + Liberation Day Tariff Reactions with Ben Shapiro and Antonio Gracias
TBPN Assertion Contradicted
Asparouhov: Biden Admin Rejected Early SpaceX Return Due to Musk's Politics
“What's incredibly clear is SpaceX offered to bring the astronauts back sooner And because it was in the middle of the election cycle, and because Musk was campaigning for Trump, the Biden administration turned down that offer.”
Delian Asparouhov Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:47 Delian Asparouhov on Stranded Astronauts, NASA in Crisis, and Corporate Espionage.
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Pishevar: Bill Gurley hired PIs and met weekly to oust Travis Kalanick
“We found out in our investigation that he hired Some private investigators had weekly meetings about how do we get rid of Travis.”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 0:24 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Pishevar: Benchmark Hired Private Investigators Against Naval Ravikant
“There's a history of VCs who have done this type of thing and in Benchmark's case, they did it against Naval. They hired private investigators and Naval Ravikant. He had a company called eGroups, and he got thrown out of it.”
Shervin Pishevar Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 57:39 Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
BIGDEAL Prediction Didn’t hold up
Trump states he will close the Department of Education early in administration
“One other thing I'll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., And sending all education and education work and needs back to the states. We want them to run the education of our children.”
Donald Trump Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 1:16:29 American Policymaker Reveals How Politics REALLY Works | Ryan Streeter
20VC Assertion Contradicted
McCabe: COVID mRNA vaccines were harmful while traditional treatments worked
“During COVID, it turned out that these gene therapies were really bad for you, and that these traditional treatments were really, really helpful. Don't slap your face like I shouldn't have said that, because it's fucking true.”
Eoghan McCabe Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 38:40 Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Shaun Maguire claims Iran has recently obtained nuclear weapons
“Allegedly they have just recently obtained nuclear weapons.”
Shaun Maguire Aug 12, 2024 ▶ 16:50 Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Sacks: Blinken told Russia US wanted Ukraine in NATO with nuclear weapons
“And you know, it turns out that the month before the Russians invaded, Blinken told Lavrov that the administration was not only going to bring Ukraine into NATO, but that they thought it was okay for the United States to put nuclear weapons in Ukraine.”
David Sacks Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 24:01 In conversation with President Trump
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Didn’t hold up
Vogt: Fully autonomous vehicles will dominate new car sales within 2-3 years
“What I do expect is, you know, within two or three years, most likely, I think the. Majority of new car sales will transition to vehicles where people don't have to drive because once you have that choice, I have a hard time believing that people are going to …”
Kyle Vogt Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 38:20 Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt — Self Driving Cars Will 10X Every Year
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Sacks: COVID-19 patient zero was a Wuhan lab gain-of-function researcher
“Patient zero, it turns out was a researcher at the Wuhan lab. Who was performing gain of function research?”
David Sacks Jun 24, 2023 ▶ 1:05:52 E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
RFK Jr.: Vaccines are exempt from pre-licensure placebo-controlled trials
“Vaccines are the one medical product that does not have to go through placebo-controlled trials where you test an exposed versus unexposed population prior to licensure”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. May 5, 2023 ▶ 56:28 In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Contradicted
Shkreli: Zero percent of patients lost access to Daraprim after price hike
“Zero percent.”
Martin Shkreli Apr 20, 2023 ▶ 47:07 Martin Shkreli Reveals How He Made His First $100 Million (#445)
20VC Prediction Didn’t hold up
Cohen: Nobody will use Concur, Amex GBT, or Salesforce by 2028
“In five years from now, nobody is using, going to use Conquer and Emacs. Nobody, by the way, nobody is going to use Salesforce.”
Ariel Cohen Feb 8, 2023 ▶ 24:12 Ariel Cohen: The Death of Salesforce; How OpenAI is Changing the Travel Industry | 20VC #975 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Didn’t hold up
Fabrice Grinda predicts UBS and Credit Suisse are too big to bail
“They're too big to bail. So it's not too big to fail. They're too big to bail. They're so big. They're bigger, the Swiss government does not have the underwriting power to underwrite it, and I could see them failing and bringing down Switzerland with them, and…”
Fabrice Grinda May 21, 2022 ▶ 42:54 Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
STARTUP IDEAS Prediction Didn’t hold up
Ohanian: 90% of gamers will only play games that pay them
“In five years, no one, 90% of people will not play a game unless they are being properly valued for that time.”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 1:17:56 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
ALL-IN Prediction Didn’t hold up
Chamath predicts neither Biden nor Trump will run for president in 2024
“Zero and zero.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Oct 23, 2021 ▶ 32:48 E52: Trump's SPAC, peak venture liquidity, tech as an economic ladder, Dems overplaying their hand
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Chamath: It's 'pretty clear' COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan lab
“It's pretty clear that this was something that leaked out of that lab.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jun 25, 2021 ▶ 39:08 E37: NYC rejects far-left candidates, new developments in lab leak theory, App Store breakup & more
ALL-IN Prediction Didn’t hold up
Chamath predicts Donald Trump will go to jail
“Yes.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 11, 2021 ▶ 13:47 E17: Big Tech bans Trump, ramifications for the First Amendment & the open Internet
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Contradicted
Cherny: Anthropic Can No Longer Demonstrate Prompt Injection on Opus 5
“So essentially, if you combine a well-aligned model, so this is, like, essentially three years of research into alignment, With a prompt injection classifier, which we run for all traffic, and what this is doing is it's based on Chrysola's mechanistic interpre…”
Boris Cherny Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 2:46 Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
INNOVATORS & INVESTORS Assertion Contradicted
Panigrahi claims Indian clinics are curing Alzheimer's using exosome therapy.
“There are players who do stem cell rejuvenation. They are curing dementia and Alzheimer through exosome therapy or stem cell rejuvenation.”
Subhendu Panigrahi Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 11:10 Ep1: Living to 100: India’s Longevity Moment ft. Subhendu Panigrahi
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Pishevar: Iranian regime massacred over 43,000 peaceful protesters in one month
“As you saw last month they massacred over 43,000 Iranians who were just peacefully protesting.”
Shervin Pishevar Mar 7, 2026 ▶ 23:07 Exiled Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi: Transition Plan and the Fight for Iran's Freedom
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Dr. Oz: Audit reveals California improperly billed $1.5B for undocumented immigrant healthcare
“We've audited him now. This data's coming out this week. We have now found over one and a half billion dollars of money spent wrongly. We've audited it. They're not even arguing. One and a half billion dollars from that California charged the federal governmen…”
Dr. Mehmet Oz Jan 24, 2026 ▶ 55:44 Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos
MAD Assertion Contradicted
Dettmers: AI hardware has maxed out and won't get faster
“The hardware is maxed out. We have no new technology. We can make it easier to manufacture and a little bit cheaper, but not faster. And we have maxed out on the additional features.”
Tim Dettmers Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 15:46 The End of GPU Scaling? Compute & The Agent Era — Tim Dettmers (Ai2) & Dan Fu (Together AI)
ALL-IN Prediction Didn’t hold up
Lutnick predicts US GDP growth will reach 5% in early 2026
“They could be this quarter, as in the first quarter, so then I'd say, well, you have to come back and see me when it's through five, but then you'll come back in a couple of months, and then you'd say, Howard, I just spoke to you for an hour. I don't, you know…”
Howard Lutnick Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 1:07:35 Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
WTF Assertion Contradicted
Musk: X has not suspended or de-amplified any left-wing voices
“So what I've tried to do is just restore it to be balanced and centrist. So there haven't been any left-wing voices that have been suspended or, you know, banned or de-amplified or anything like that.”
Elon Musk Nov 30, 2025 ▶ 6:09 Elon Musk: A Different Conversation w/ Nikhil Kamath | Full Episode | People by WTF Ep. 16 · Nikhil Kamath
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Musk: UK released violent offenders to imprison people over social media posts
“They have, in a lot of cases, released people who have committed violent crimes in order to imprison people who have simply made posts on social media.”
Elon Musk Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 42:19 Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Baker: Google surpassed OpenAI and Anthropic in total AI traffic
“I think they've taken 15 or 20 points of traffic share in the last two or three months, and that does not, that's just traffic to Gemini. It does not include search overviews. I suspect on a actual traffic basis, Google is bigger than OpenAI, Anthropic, anyone…”
Gavin Baker Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 8:48 "Is there an AI bubble?” Gavin Baker and David George
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Sacks: Left-wing NGOs laundered over $100M of public money for Antifa
“These NGOs have laundered over a hundred million dollars of our money to fund terrorist violence in our streets.”
David Sacks Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 34:56 Trump Brokers Gaza Peace Deal, National Guard in Chicago, OpenAI/AMD, AI Roundtripping, Gold Rally
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Caruso: LA spends $900,000 per homeless person moved off streets
“We are spending in the city of Los Angeles. 900,000 dollars per person that they're moving from the streets. 900,000 dollars.”
Rick Caruso Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 18:48 Rick Caruso on California’s Collapse: Broken Leadership, LA Wildfire Failures & the Fix
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Carlson claims Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence asset involved in Iran-Contra
“Yes, well, no question. He was involved in Iran-Contra. American, French, Israeli, probably British.”
Tucker Carlson Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 39:45 Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Carlson asserts Charlotte stabbing victim was targeted for being white
“She was stabbed because she was white, and everyone knows that, actually.”
Tucker Carlson Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 51:29 Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Tony Robbins claims meta-studies prove SSRIs do not work
“SSRIs don't work. They don't. They've been proven not to work by the meta studies, but we're still giving them millions of people.”
Tony Robbins Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 22:08 Tony Robbins | All-In Live from Miami
TBPN Assertion Contradicted
Maguire: Harvard introduced remedial math because admissions standards dropped
“Harvard last year implemented their first ever remedial math because there are people coming in that don't know algebra because they dropped the admission standards.”
Shaun Maguire Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 10:29 Shaun Maguire breaks down Wiz investment, building great teams, and the Everything App.
SOURCERY Assertion Contradicted
Mansoor: Kalshi's federal regulation allows sports trading across all 50 states
“It's the first time that sports, like, trading on sports is actually legal in all 50 states. Because we are regulated by the, you know, by the feds, like, at the federal level, not state by state. And the federal regulation, like, the law actually supersedes s…”
Tarek Mansoor Feb 28, 2025 ▶ 17:26 How Kalshi Built a $2 Billion Prediction Market · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Hommels: US fighter jets require real-time remote US clearance to start
“Even if you buy US fighter jets, Yeah. So the way how it works is you are the owner. It stands somewhere in the hangar, and you want to, you know, start flying. You have to put it in the way where, where you want to fly, and then this data is sent to the US, a…”
Klaus Hommels Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 29:14 Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Hommels: Europe cannot independently launch satellites after Ariane sold capacity
“Yeah, currently we either we get a slot in a SpaceX, yeah, with all the with all the restrictions that there are, or we have Ariane, but Ariane base lastly sold a hundred percent of the defense transport capacity to Amazon. So basically, as Europeans, we are, …”
Klaus Hommels Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 31:13 Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Andreessen: Chinese manufacturer DJI is US Defense Department's primary drone supplier
“DJI is the most widely used drone today by many, many large, you know, American customers, including the United States Department of Defense. Right. The DOD's primary drone supplier is DJI.”
Marc Andreessen Oct 29, 2024 ▶ 12:50 AI, Robotics & the New Global Arms Race
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Contradicted
Ross: Los Angeles School Superintendent Abolished High School Math
“Milken Institute sent me an interview they had done with the head of the school system in Los Angeles, and the reason they did an interview with them is he had abolished, prohibited the teaching of mathematics in high school.”
Wilbur Ross Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 39:40 A Conversation with Wall Street Legend & U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross · Joe Lonsdale
ALL-IN Prediction Didn’t hold up
Sacks: Ukraine is on track to collapse, probably next year
“And what we're on track for is, at some point, Probably next year, Ukraine is going to collapse.”
David Sacks Aug 16, 2024 ▶ 1:35:49 Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Maguire: Colombian and Venezuelan drug cartels report directly to Iran
“Like the cartels in Colombia and Venezuela basically report into Iran. Iran handles most of the money laundering for them and coordination processing of a lot of like the precursor chemicals, stuff like that.”
Shaun Maguire Aug 12, 2024 ▶ 6:11 Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
BG2 Assertion Contradicted
Gurley: Cross-country excess death data shows COVID lockdowns achieved nothing
“They've gone back through, and looked at excess deaths at a number of different countries, and lockdowns achieved nothing.”
Bill Gurley Jul 25, 2024 ▶ 54:44 Ep13. Silicon Valley’s Political 180, META AI, COVID Postmortem | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
MASTERS OF SCALE Assertion Contradicted
Russell: Tesla's vision system fails to stop for child crash dummies
“Like, literally, if you put, like, a, you know, a crash dummy right in front of the car like a child pedestrian crash dummy, like, it doesn't come to a safe stop, like, at a reasonable speed.”
Austin Russell Jul 16, 2024 ▶ 27:33 Austin Russell (with will.i.am): From dropout to billionaire | Masters of Scale
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Contradicted
Means: The Flexner Report legally mandates siloed pharmaceutical medicine in the US
“The way medicine exists today, the guiding law in Congress is called the Flexner Report, which actually mandates that we can't look at disease holistically. We have to look at things in silos, evidence-based. We need to name a condition and then treat it with …”
Calley Means Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 10:40 The Dark Story Behind Ozempic’s $500B Business Empire
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Contradicted
Means: Stanford medical dean took $4M from opioid firms for ethics research
“Reached out to the Dean of Stanford Med School, who was a pain specialist, and we funded him directly with consulting payments, and then made a donation to Stanford to his lab for four million dollars from opioid companies to study ethics and pain management.”
Calley Means Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 29:02 The Dark Story Behind Ozempic’s $500B Business Empire
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Contradicted
Means: 15 of 19 members on 2011 NIH opioid panel took pharma payments
“The Dean of Stanford Med School who just took a bunch of money from opioid companies was appointed in 2011 to the blue ribbon panel on opioid recommendations. He shows 19 other elite academics. 15 of the 19 had direct payments from opioid companies that we Ver…”
Calley Means Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 29:39 The Dark Story Behind Ozempic’s $500B Business Empire
ALL-IN Prediction Didn’t hold up
Trump predicts Iran could acquire a nuclear weapon within 90 days
“And within 90 days or so, they're gonna have and could have very well a nuclear weapon”
Donald J. Trump Jun 20, 2024 ▶ 27:55 In conversation with President Trump
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