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Opinion
Kalanick: Founders definitely should not raise capital from Benchmark Capital
“You definitely shouldn't raise from benchmark capital.”
Travis Kalanick Aug 16, 2026 ▶ 58:34 Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kalanick: Benchmark ran an activist war room creating weekly crises at Uber
“Benchmark was running a war room. They were an unspoken activist investor that was creating a once a week crisis.”
Travis Kalanick Aug 16, 2026 ▶ 59:00 Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
Opinion
Dell: Elon Musk's greatest contribution is training engineers to build companies
“It's the most incredible contribution I think anyone has ever made to humanity. It's not just the company that he's built, but the engineers that he's trained that have gone on to build other great companies. It's like I said, he's the greatest technologist of…”
Zach Dell Sep 6, 2026 ▶ 38:51 Building a Power Company for the Next 50 Years | Zach Dell, Base Power
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2027
Glyman: OpenAI and Anthropic will pass $300B combined revenue in a year
“And if you play out what they and OpenAI, just the two labs, are on track to do in revenue and call it a year's time I think it'd be reasonably conservative at this point to say they're gonna pass more than three hundred billion dollars a year in revenue, whic…”
Eric Glyman Jul 12, 2026 ▶ 44:07 The $44 Billion Company Automating Your Company's Finances
Opinion
White Calls PFL, Bellator, and ONE Championship "Failing Companies"
“PFL, Bellator, One FC, many, many other failing companies.”
Dana White May 10, 2026 ▶ 44:46 Dana White: The Man Behind the UFC
Opinion
Armstrong: Gensler and Warren unlawfully tried to kill US crypto
“And so it turns out in the past, this ambiguity about where crypto assets set, you know, sit between the two federal regulators, that lack of clarity was really weaponized and by Gary Gensler, the former SEC chair, and Elizabeth Warren and people like that who…”
Brian Armstrong Mar 1, 2026 ▶ 0:57 Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase

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Assertion Supported
Stoute: Jay-Z wrote Snoop Dogg's parts on 'Still D.R.E.'
“Every line Snoop says in the hook is fucking Jay wrote. I was like, this guy's different. He wrote Snoop's parts on that song.”
Steve Stoute Jun 21, 2026 ▶ 1:25:49 The Marketing Genius of Steve Stoute
Assertion Contradicted
Ovitz: Stanley Kubrick never had any talent agent besides Michael Ovitz
“He never had an agent except me, and I could talk to him because Marty basically educated me”
Michael Ovitz Nov 23, 2025 ▶ 1:18:39 CAA Co-founder Michael Ovitz: Failure Is Not an Option
Assertion Supported
DHH: Shopify Uses Autonomous AI Agents to Complete Work and Open PRs
“River, the current system that they have for you. Employing agents to do work and open PRs and everything. Like, everyone is working towards that. Shopify is already there”
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 34:53 DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
Assertion Contradicted
Kalanick: Uber never passed anti-competitor regulations or donated to political campaigns
“We had never at Uber, we never Got a regulation passed that would hurt a competitor. We never would do that. That's just not how we rolled. We never donated to a campaign. Ever. To try to get something passed.”
Travis Kalanick Aug 16, 2026 ▶ 32:27 Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber

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302days Glyman: OpenAI and Anthropic will pass $300B combined revenue in a year Eric Glyman · prediction date: 2027-07-12 474days Armstrong: NewLimit's first drug candidate will probably enter clinical trials next year Brian Armstrong · prediction date: 2027-12-31

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Ordered by full support rate, then by supported count. Minimum three resolved. Partly supported claims count as resolved but not as fully supported, same as everywhere on the ledger.

PersonEpsStatementsSupportedPartly supportedContradictedFull support rate
Ed Catmull 1 37 6 0 0 100%
James Dyson 1 36 6 0 0 100%
Sam Altman 1 37 4 0 0 100%
Michael Dell 1 17 4 0 0 100%
David Heinemeier Hansson 0 0 3 0 0 100%
Mati Staniszewski 1 39 3 0 0 100%
Evan Spiegel 1 42 8 1 0 89%
Torsten Reil 1 29 7 1 0 88%

From the Wisdom Wall all quotes →

“And I feel like the second part is always, uh, frequently, uh, missed was like first, okay, if these are, you know, doing effectively a lot of the, the, the, the hard integration work to solve the…”

“they're fundamentally constrained really by, by two things. One is interconnection capacity, so there's not enough places on the grid to go put these big shipping containers, and the second is…”

“there's no financial incentive for them to come with new technology. Their only financial incentive is to go increase the size of the rate base.”

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