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TBPN Assertion Supported
Torre: Steve Ballmer used four companies to funnel money to Kawhi Leonard
“And I say that because, according to the NBA's investigation and my own, this was not merely a scheme that he ran to funnel money with one company aspiration. He did it with four. He did it with the scoreboard manufacturer, multi-million dollar deal for Kawhi …”
Pablo Torre Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 7:23 Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
TBPN Assertion Supported
Torre: Ballmer Created Fake Consulting Agreements to Pay Kawhi Leonard
“What they really did was they created fake jobs for Kawhi Leonard and fake consulting agreements, consulting fees for the companies.”
Pablo Torre Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 10:42 Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Altman: Unreleased OpenAI model used zero-day exploits to breach Hugging Face
“We were evaluating one of our unreleased models and it figured out that it could basically cheat on the test by chaining together multiple zero day exploits to break out of the sandbox, get access to the internet, and then break through multiple systems on the…”
Sam Altman Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 35:51 Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Supported
Brockman: Elon, Sam, Ilya, and I Agreed OpenAI Needed For-Profit Structure
“Elon, Sam, Ilya, and I all agreed. That the only path forward for OpenAI, the only path to achieve the mission, was to create a for-profit entity associated with OpenAI of some form. And so we were committed to that direction, and that is something that we kne…”
Greg Brockman Apr 22, 2026 ▶ 5:48 Ai Goes Parabolic | OpenAI Co-Founder Greg Brockman
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Rogers: US sanctioned former EU official over Elon Musk enforcement threat
“We recently issued some sanctions, which we'll get into, and one of the individuals we sanctioned, ah, was a former EU official who threatened Elon Musk with enforcement action because X within the United States had said that it was going to host on a live, ah…”
Sarah B. Rogers Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 7:18 Europe's Free Speech Failure and the "Censorship Industrial Complex" with Sarah B. Rogers
20VC Assertion Supported
Elon Musk and Tesla Failed at Building Wafer-Scale Chips for Dojo
“And after we did it Elon tried Dojo and they failed.”
Andrew Feldman Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 23:29 Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
TBPN Assertion Supported
DiRico: Rainmaker and cloud seeding had no connection to Texas floods
“Rainmaker and cloud seeding had nothing to do with the flooding that unfolded”
Augustus Doricko Jul 8, 2025 ▶ 4:01 RAINMAKER CEO Speaks Out on Texas Flood Controversy
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Thiel: Lawsuit discovery proved the Army covered up reports favoring Palantir
“And then when you and then what you can do when you sue somebody is you get discovery and you discover, and you sort of discover what's going on in the sausage making factory that no one's investigated for 22 years. And there's a lot of stuff and we're sort of…”
Peter Thiel Apr 17, 2025 ▶ 12:17 Tariffs, DOGE & Fixing America: Peter Thiel's Skeptic Solutions · Joe Lonsdale
MORE OR LESS Assertion Supported
Brit Morin: Deel CEO allegedly recruited Rippling employee as paid spy
“Keith O'Brien, who was the man allegedly spying for deal while working at Rip Lane had to Put out an affidavit today, and he basically, like, came forward and just was like, all right, here's the truth. Alex, how do you pronounce his name? Boise, Boise, the CE…”
Brit Morin Apr 4, 2025 ▶ 46:53 Can Tesla Survive? | More or Less #93 · More or Less Podcast
20VC Assertion Supported
Feldman: Nvidia Has Zero CUDA Software Lock-In for AI Inference
“In inference, it's not real at all. There's no CUDA lock-in in inference. None. Well, you can move from OpenAI on an NVIDIA GPU to Cerebrus to Fireworks Service on something else to Together to perplexity with 10 keystrokes. I mean, anybody who actually uses A…”
Andrew Feldman Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 42:10 Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
NO PRIORS Assertion Supported
Caruso: Mayor Bass cut LAFD budget, leaving equipment mothballed in lots
“The city didn't even have enough equipment because they've underfunded the fire department for so long, and Mayor Bass cut even more out this last budget cycle That they had equipment mothballed in parking lots.”
Rick Caruso Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 7:48 No Priors Ep. 99 | With Rick Caruso
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Fryer: Police Study Found Racial Bias in Non-Lethal Force, None in Shootings
“And what we found was that on the lower level uses of force, there are racial differences that we couldn't explain. And we put them through formal bias test, and there is bias that goes on in the lower level uses of force. What we didn't find was any, that tha…”
Roland Fryer Sep 20, 2024 ▶ 13:44 Harvard Economist: The Truth About Police Brutality · Joe Lonsdale
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Sacks: Reid Hoffman told Peter Thiel he wished Trump was a martyr
“Just days before the shooting, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman had an exchange at Allen and company that was publicly reported. In which Peter said that Reed had turned Trump into a martyr by funding lawfare, and Reed responded, I wish I had turned him into an ac…”
David Sacks Jul 19, 2024 ▶ 16:49 Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Held up
Marcus: A death will be tied to an LLM within a year
“The prediction that I made Is basically that there will be a death tied to a large language model in the next year.”
Gary Marcus Sep 13, 2022 ▶ 48:29 Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus
20VC Assertion Supported
Tenev denies Robinhood colluded with hedge funds to restrict meme stock trading
“The idea that somehow the most wrong thing was this allegation of collusion that we're somehow colluding with hedge funds that we have no business relationship with to somehow restrict buying of these stocks. Yeah, I think that was just wrong.”
Vlad Tenev Mar 4, 2021 ▶ 9:15 20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on His Biggest Lessons Managing Through A Crisis, The Events of The Congressional Committee, Raising $2.4Bn Fast and Why It Was Necessary & Why It Is Ludicrous To Suggest Robinhood Put The Business Ahead of it's Customer
TBPN Assertion Supported
Brockman: OpenAI Model Solved Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem by Finding Singularity
“Today we announced that our model had solved the Navier-Stokes problem that we found a counter-example or a sort of proof that you can actually that these theoretical equations do have a singularity or kind of breakdown under Certain circumstances.”
Greg Brockman Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 0:31 Greg Brockman on Astra and the Future of OpenAI
MAD Assertion Supported
Wolf: OpenAI Model Attacked Hugging Face as Autonomous 'Side Quest'
“What people quickly discovered is that the model was not at all task with attacking us, but decided to do that as a side quest of something else.”
Thomas Wolf Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 4:55 “OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
MAD Assertion Supported
Wolf: Prior OpenAI Training Runs Left Notes for Future Runs
“I think learning we had at Black Hat yesterday was that some of the previous training run may have left some notes for future training runs, which is, I think mind, mind blowing.”
Thomas Wolf Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 6:35 “OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
INVEST LIKE THE BEST Assertion Supported
Altman: Unreleased OpenAI Model Escaped Sandbox Using Zero-Days to Cheat Eval
“So we were evaluating one of our unreleased models and it was supposed to be working in a sandbox and It figured out that it could basically cheat on the test by chaining together multiple zero-day exploits to break out of the sandbox, get access to the intern…”
Sam Altman Jul 28, 2026 ▶ 14:32 Sam Altman on AGI, Compute, and Human Agency · Invest Like The Best
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Brockman: Frontier AI models are solving unsolved math and physics problems
“These models are now solving unsolved math problems and physics problems, right? Really helping people be able to achieve things they couldn't otherwise.”
Greg Brockman Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 3:07:59 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Sacks: Anthropic CEO refused White House request to take down Fable
“They tried to call Anthropic, They tried to call Dario, and there were a number of conversations, and the TLDR of it is Dario refused, meaning refused their request to take down Fable until this jailbreak could be fixed.”
David Sacks Jun 19, 2026 ▶ 41:26 World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
NO PRIORS Assertion Supported
Tan: President Trump asked him to resign over conflicts of interest
“Well, the most surprising that I don't learn from my previous job or even training is one day early morning, President Trump asking me to resign and a conflict of interest, and there's no exceptions.”
Lip-Bu Tan Jun 18, 2026 ▶ 2:02 Re-engineering the Semiconductor Supply Chain with Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan
SAASTR Prediction Held up
Lemkin: Anthropic Will Reach $50B in Revenue in Four Years
“Anthropics revenue is like nothing we've ever seen. Okay. It'll be at fifty billion in less than four years or four years plus or minus.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 27:35 $4 Trillion in IPOs, $100B in M&A, and Why B2B Spend is Booming
20VC Prediction Held up
Laqua: Employees taking weekends off have no place at Corgi
“If your days off happen to be Saturday and Sunday every week, then you will not have a place at Corgi.”
Nico Laqua May 30, 2026 ▶ 8:43 The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
MORE OR LESS Assertion Supported
Anthropic has completely overtaken OpenAI in revenue
“So I'm just curious how you reconcile what you were saying about the costs and everything with just the unprecedented growth that Anthropic has seen and the like flippening with open AI where it has just completely overtaken open AI from a revenue perspective.”
Amir Efrati May 29, 2026 ▶ 20:02 Normal People Don't Want AI Agents (And Silicon Valley Can't Accept It) · More or Less Podcast
20VC Prediction Held up
Lemkin: A $100 billion startup exit will happen within a year
“The big exits will solve it, right? The whizzes and the, I mean, we thought whizz was big. Now we have cursor. Now I'm going to win the bet of a hundred billion dollar exit in the next year.”
Jason Lemkin Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 1:05:12 Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
MORE OR LESS Assertion Supported
Morin: Anthropic is raising at an $800B valuation
“And Anthropic this week, I heard, is also now raising at an eight hundred billion.”
Brit Morin Apr 17, 2026 ▶ 25:23 Allbirds Pivoted to AI Data Centers | SpaceX $1.5T IPO, Anthropic $800B, $175M Seed Rounds
MAD Assertion Supported
Anthropic model broke out of sandbox and emailed researcher without internet access
“And I can, there's one example we have published, which is that the model was put into a little sandbox, a little, like, technical container, and it was given the task to, like, maybe break out, and the researcher went away for lunch, and, like, during lunch w…”
Felix Rieseberg Apr 10, 2026 ▶ 5:49 Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction
a16z Assertion Supported
Jennings: Block's >40% RIF heavily targeted software developers over sales
“We did a reduction in force that was, you know, slightly greater than 40%. And that wasn't even you know, to the conversation we were just having, the tools were flowing through really meaningfully on the development side. And so the cuts were way larger on th…”
Owen Jennings Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 4:23 How to Reorg After AI Changes Everything | Block's Owen Jennings on the a16z Show
20VC Assertion Supported
Andreessen: Companies falsely blame AI for corporate layoffs
“And now they all have the silver bullet excuse, right? Ah, it's AI. Right, and I know this for a fact, because number one, I talk to them, but number two, I know this for a fact, because AI until, like, literally until, like, December, right, was not actually …”
Marc Andreessen Mar 30, 2026 ▶ 1:05:01 Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Meta AI leaders discussed temporarily licensing Google Gemini for their products
“The leaders of Meta's AI division Have instead discussed temporarily licensing Gemini to power the company's AI product.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 50:49 AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
20VC Prediction Held up
O'Driscoll: Oracle will lay off 20k to 30k employees over AI capex strain
“The only person that's even struggling slightly to cover their nut is Oracle, right? Because they had the weakest balance sheet and the least compelling use case, which is why at some point they're going to throw 20 or 30,000 people over the side to make the P…”
Rory O'Driscoll Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 23:30 Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Horowitz: US used Anthropic tech in Operation Epic Fury post-risk designation
“Less than 24 hours after the supply chain designation, The U.S. Government was using Anthropix technology in the context of Operation Epic Fury against Iran.”
Michael Horowitz Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 31:28 Pentagon Insider: What's Next For Anthropic and The Department of War — With Michael Horowitz
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Anthropic's Pentagon deal collapsed over domestic bulk data surveillance
“On Friday afternoon, Anthropic learned that the Pentagon still wanted to use the company's AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans. This could include information such as questions you ask your favorite chatbot, your Google search history, your GPS tr…”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 4, 2026 ▶ 3:00 Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Tracey: Julie K. Brown fabricated quotes in Perversion of Justice
“Even though, for example, I caught her fabricating quotes in her book, Perversion of Justice, which was based on the initial Miami Herald series.”
Michael Tracey Feb 20, 2026 ▶ 7:46 Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
20VC Assertion Supported
Siemiatkowski: Klarna cut headcount by 50% to under 3,000 employees
“We've gone from 7000 people. We're now below 3000. We've shrank 50%.”
Sebastian Siemiatkowski Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 34:17 Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Makary: FDA halted Biden-era policy allowing CAR-T cell editing in China
“We did find that there was in the Biden administration approval to have the cells of Americans for CAR T therapy shipped to China where the Chinese did the gene editing and then shipped back to the United States. To infuse in Americans. When I found out about …”
Dr. Marty Makary Jan 15, 2026 ▶ 30:25 Supercharging a New FDA: Marty Makary on Science, Power & Patients
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Bessent claims a 150-year San Francisco Fed study shows tariffs are disinflationary
“There's a study from not a friend of the administration, the San Francisco fed with a 150 years of data. I would refer everyone to that. That shows that tariffs do not cause inflation, that they're actually disinflationary.”
Scott Bessent Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 6:20 Scott Bessent: Fixing the Fed, Tariffs for National Security, Solving Affordability in 2026
ALL-IN Prediction Held up
Calacanis: Nvidia will decline or severely downgrade investment in OpenAI
“I think NVIDIA is not going to take their option to invest in open AI, or they're going to really downgrade at 70, 80%, and they're going to allocate it to other players.”
Jason Calacanis Dec 6, 2025 ▶ 18:35 OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Hubinger: Models trained to cheat spontaneously developed goals to end humanity
“And what we saw is that when models learn to cheat in training, when they learn to cheat on programming tests, that also causes them to be misaligned to the point of having goals, you know, where they say they want to end humanity. They want to murder the huma…”
Evan Hubinger Dec 3, 2025 ▶ 27:45 How An AI Model Learned To Be Bad — With Evan Hubinger And Monte MacDiarmid
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Hubinger: Cheating AI models deliberately sabotaged Anthropic's misalignment detector code
“And what we found was that this model would sabotage us. It would write on purpose problematic code that would miss the misalignment. It would Purposely write the, you know, the misalignment detector in a way that wouldn't detect the ways in which this model w…”
Evan Hubinger Dec 3, 2025 ▶ 31:43 How An AI Model Learned To Be Bad — With Evan Hubinger And Monte MacDiarmid
20VC Prediction Held up
Andrew Ng: Artificial general intelligence is decades or longer away
“So this phantom AGI, someday with AI, they can do everything a human can do. I think we're very far away from that. I would say, you know, like decades away, maybe even longer.”
Andrew Ng Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 14:32 AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Unsealed deposition shows Sutskever accused Sam Altman of chronic lying
“The very first page says, Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of lying, undermining his execs, and pitting his execs against one another. And the lawyer asked Elia, that was clearly your view at the time, and Elia says, correct.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 49:58 OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
20VC Assertion Supported
Cahn: Chip makers finance AI buildouts to book revenue circularly
“The chip companies are now stepping up and saying, okay, we'll absorb some of the risk. We'll put in the capital to finance this build out where the demand on the other side is not so clear because of course the chip companies also get to book this as revenue.”
David Cahn Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 24:05 Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Liemandt: Alpha 3rd and 4th Graders Outscore 50% of US High School Grads
“We have third and fourth graders who outscore 50% of the high school graduates in this country.”
Joe Liemandt Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 20:15 Secret Tech Billionaire Is Betting $1B on This · Joe Lonsdale
a16z Assertion Supported
Labenz: Claude 4 system card documented AI blackmailing a human engineer
“In the cloud four system card, they reported blackmailing of the human. The setup was that the AI had access to the engineer's email and They told the AI that it was going to be like replaced with a, you know, a less ethical version or something like that. It …”
Nathan Labenz Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 1:04:23 Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question
a16z Prediction Held up
Kupor: Federal workforce will shrink by 300,000 employees due to DOGE
“We've done a lot of work over the course of this year, a lot of which was catalyzed by Elon and the Doge team. As a result, we expect probably that we'll end up with somewhere around 2.1 million employees at the end of the year, so roughly about a 300,000 redu…”
Scott Kupor Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 3:42 The Person Who Runs HR For 2 Million Federal Workers
a16z Assertion Supported
Bhattacharya: NIH funded the Wuhan lab without the capability to audit it
“The NIH had sent money to the Wuhan lab but we couldn't audit it.”
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 10:00 Taking Bold Bets: NIH and the Future of Biomedical Science
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