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James Altucher

Host, The James Altucher Show · 1 appearance on the record.

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James Altucher is the author of the bestselling book Choose Yourself and host of the interview podcast The James Altucher Show. Over his career, he has founded or co-founded over 20 companies, managed hedge funds, and published roughly 20 books on investing and entrepreneurship.

13statements → 5claims → 3claims resolved → 33%fully supported → 4/5average certainty → 2.08/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated → 5said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 2 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 assertions · 1 opinion · 6 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 2 name 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 James 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
Altucher: Jerry Seinfeld wrote NYT op-ed attacking him, Cuomo emailed it
“Even Jerry Seinfeld wrote an op-ed in the New York Times just trashing me, which then Andrew Cuomo emailed to, like, everybody in New York State”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 34:01 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Altucher: Google Manually Replaced His Post With Suicide Hotline
“There was a point where, because I wrote about this, there was a point where if you Googled, how do I kill myself, I was like the number one search result on Google, and then enough people complained that Google had to manually put in the national suicide hotl…”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 6:06 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)

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 James Altucher on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything James Altucher said on BigDeal that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Altucher: Jerry Seinfeld wrote NYT op-ed attacking him, Cuomo emailed it
“Even Jerry Seinfeld wrote an op-ed in the New York Times just trashing me, which then Andrew Cuomo emailed to, like, everybody in New York State”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 34:01 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
Opinion
Altucher: Finance Media Figures Falsely Pretend They Are Never Wrong
“Finance, nobody was doing that. Like, I realized like, everybody was perfect in finance. They never were wrong. They were on CNBC, like, oh, well, of course, they're gonna raise, decrease interest rates, and the market's gonna go up or down, and everybody's, l…”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 3:36 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
Insight
Altucher: Sharing ideas for free builds goodwill, charging creates zero goodwill
“You didn't charge. Like, you should absolutely not charge for, you know, if someone just wants to meet, or if someone wants you to share your ideas with their team, just go out, and you build up so much goodwill. With the good, there's zero goodwill if they ju…”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 20:35 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
Insight
Altucher: Nobody wants to steal your ideas in 99.999% of cases
“First off, no one really wants to steal your ideas. In most, in 99.999% of the cases, no one could give a shit about your ideas.”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 21:19 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
Insight
Altucher: Positive customer feedback carries zero informational value
“When someone says something positive, it actually has no informational value.”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 29:13 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
Insight
Altucher: People Connect Deeply Through Shared Failures, Not Superficial Wealth
“And it's a, the language of the, our past fears and failures, that is the real way we all connect. Like if we all just had like a billion dollars and we met at cocktail parties, we're going to connect in this real superficial way. But if we're saying, look, I …”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 2:54 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
Assertion Contradicted
Altucher: Google Manually Replaced His Post With Suicide Hotline
“There was a point where, because I wrote about this, there was a point where if you Googled, how do I kill myself, I was like the number one search result on Google, and then enough people complained that Google had to manually put in the national suicide hotl…”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 6:06 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
Insight
Altucher: Sudden Wealth Blinds People to the Role of Luck and Timing
“The problem with making money is you think all of a sudden you're smart. Like, oh, I made money in this one area. I, you discount the fact that part of it is luck. There's always a luck factor. You discount the part that there's a lot of people involved in, in…”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 8:36 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
Insight
Altucher: Replying to online detractors gives them your audience
“And not only that, you lend your complete, legitimate, valid audience to him for that tweet. And so he can now use that audience for his purpose. That certainly wasn't your intent. So that's why now I'm very careful about, like, every time I click reply, and I…”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 38:31 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Altucher: Cold-emailing daily idea lists led to speaking gigs at Google, Facebook, and Airbnb
“And I've been doing this now, writing 10 ideas a day for over 20 years. I've, because I send many of them out, I've been invited to speak at Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, I spoke at Airbnb's main conference. I've been out to Quora and met, met all of them, and j…”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 13:54 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Altucher: A hedge fund manager gave him $5M without understanding his software
“And somebody, a big hedge fund manager, I sent them my software for how I do my investing, and he said, well, I don't get your software, but I'll give you five million dollars to manage, and then I started a hedge fund out of that.”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 14:58 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
Assertion Contradicted
Altucher: Anyone can become official presidential candidate on fec.gov in 10 minutes
“If you just go to fec.gov and fill out 10 minutes worth of paperwork, you too could be an official candidate for president.”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 17:27 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)
Disclosure
Altucher: Raised thousands of dollars on Indiegogo in campaign to buy Greenland
“I made a Kickstarter to buy Greenland, and they kicked me off, but then Indiegogo, I think, let me do it, and I started raising, like, thousands of dollars.”
James Altucher May 14, 2024 ▶ 18:24 If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher)

The other half of the tape: James Altucher's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 2 episodes on BigDeal. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Codie Sanchez 4

Statements about James Altucher, by other people (1)

Assertion Supported
James Altucher Sold Newsletter Likeness Rights to Agora for Eight Figures
“He sold a newsletter to Agora Financial, and I know James, he's a great guy, for, I'd guess, eight figures. I didn't ask him. And they had the right to email for a set period of time as him.”
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Appearances (1)

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If I was broke in 2024, here’s exactly what I’d do… (feat. James Altucher) May 14, 2024 27m
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