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David Friedberg

Founder & CEO, The Production Board · 1 appearance on the record.

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David Friedberg is the founder and CEO of The Production Board and a co-host of the All-In podcast. Previously an early Google employee, he founded The Climate Corporation and digital auto insurer Metromile.

14statements → 11claims → 9claims resolved → 56%fully supported → 3.71/5average certainty → 2.14/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 3said about them ↓

5 supported 1 partly supported 3 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 1 not checkable as stated how the 11 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 9 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 11 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 9 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how David argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Industrial renewables cost under 3¢/kWh vs 10-15¢ for coal and gas
“We're seeing industrial scale renewable energy like solar and wind cost less now than traditional petrochemical driven energy electricity production. You know, As low as under three cents a kilowatt hour. And, you know we're typically looking at about 10 to 15…”
David Friedberg Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 3:38 David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Friedberg: Forecasts Project 90% of Global Population in Africa and South Asia by 2100
“There's about 95% of the world's people at the end of the century, based on recent population forecasts, call it 90% of people, that will live in Africa and South Asia, ok? 10% of the people will live elsewhere.”
David Friedberg Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 9:20 David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
50% certainty 3
64% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of David Friedberg on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything David Friedberg said on Big Technology that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Friedberg: Plant-based meat companies function like luxury goods brands
“So what I've told people is that these businesses are like luxury goods brands. You know, you can buy a purse that carries your stuff, or you can buy a Louis Vuitton or Gucci purse and then feel good about carrying a Louis Vuitton or Gucci purse and be like, l…”
David Friedberg Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 42:19 David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis
Insight
Friedberg: Climate tech scales through economic superiority, not planetary virtue
“Those technologies are not just about doing good for the planet. They're just better business sense. And what I mean by that is they make stuff that's cheaper and better than the traditional way of making stuff or doing stuff. And if it's cheaper, if it's a be…”
David Friedberg Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 2:58 David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis
Insight
Friedberg: Replacing conventional meat requires cheaper, chemically identical alternatives
“The way to replace the solution is to make ground beef that's chemically identical, meaning it's the same product and it's made cheaper. And you just don't happen to use animals.”
David Friedberg Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 43:06 David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2043
Friedberg: 90% to 95% chance scalable fusion exists within two decades
“I would say there's probably a 90 plus percent chance or 95% chance that we will have scalable fusion energy in the next decade or two”
David Friedberg Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 51:16 David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis
Assertion Contradicted
Friedberg: Forecasts Project 90% of Global Population in Africa and South Asia by 2100
“There's about 95% of the world's people at the end of the century, based on recent population forecasts, call it 90% of people, that will live in Africa and South Asia, ok? 10% of the people will live elsewhere.”
David Friedberg Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 9:20 David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis
Assertion Contradicted
Friedberg: Latin American farmers make nearly 10x US farmer operating margins
“They make nearly 10 times as much profit in terms of their margin, their operating margin, as a U.S. Farmer.”
David Friedberg Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 19:19 David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Industrial renewables cost under 3¢/kWh vs 10-15¢ for coal and gas
“We're seeing industrial scale renewable energy like solar and wind cost less now than traditional petrochemical driven energy electricity production. You know, As low as under three cents a kilowatt hour. And, you know we're typically looking at about 10 to 15…”
David Friedberg Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 3:38 David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Beef production requires 30 calories of energy per calorie produced
“Today it takes 30 units of energy to make a unit of beef. Ok, so if you measure beef in terms of calories, to make one calorie of beef takes about 30 calories of energy across the whole system.”
David Friedberg Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 12:11 David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: SPAC market will not recover quickly and will filter to profitable businesses
“I don't think that there's going to be a quick return to SPAC land anytime soon. In fact, I think it'll only filter out to businesses like what we're doing with Lavoro, profitable, scaled, growing, you know, kind of where you can measure it on its financial re…”
David Friedberg Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 34:53 David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Roughly 65% of post-2020 IPO/SPAC companies trade below private capital raised
“65%, roughly, of companies that went public since twenty-twenty, whether that's through SPAC or IPO, 65% are trading below the total cash they raised as a private company, as a tech, as a, by VCs. So they're so low in value in aggregate that they're actually w…”
David Friedberg Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 38:20 David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Beyond Meat and Impossible cost 2x to 4x conventional beef
“So ground beef, you know, three bucks a pound roughly. Beyond Meat, Impossible, or like two to three to four times that price.”
David Friedberg Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 41:16 David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Latin America exports twice as many calories as the US
“And Latin America as a region exports twice as many calories as the U.S.”
David Friedberg Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 18:58 David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis
Assertion Partly supported
Friedberg: Latin American farmers average age 40 compared to 60 in US
“And they're typically 40 years old, the US farmers 60.”
David Friedberg Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 19:27 David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis
Assertion Contradicted
Friedberg: Fusion startups grew from about 7 to roughly 70
“Two years, three years ago, there was about seven fusion startups. Today, there should, there's roughly 70.”
David Friedberg Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 48:25 David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis Feb 15, 2023 39m
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