Straight Answers

An LLM assessed 269 question → answer exchanges, the host's own answers included. Speaker names were hidden during assessment. Each exchange was marked answered, partly, redirected or not addressed, with a quote as its source. Every exchange below is timestamped and plays. How it works →

These readings are observational: the transcript shows whether the question was answered directly, whatever the reason. It is an AI reading of a public exchange, never a claim about intent, and the tape is one tap away on every row. full disclaimer →

15not answered directly · why no rate? → 15playable exchanges ↓ 14people with at least one → 37people measured →

Nobody here carries a rate, and that is deliberate: rates are not published without enough raw tape, which means 8 or more assessed questions on raw, unedited recordings, and every David Senra episode we hold is the produced feed. So this page counts instead of rating. Every one of the 38 people on the record is accounted for: 37 have their questions counted (14 of them with at least one not answered directly), and the remaining 1 never took a direct question in any tape we hold: compilations, panels and cameo appearances leave nothing to assess.

The whole show 15 of 213 assessed questions, produced feed

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All speakers

All 37 people with assessed questions on the record, ranked by how many were not answered directly. Every count comes from the produced feed. Click a name to see their exchanges.

Person Redirected + not addressed Questions Tape Argument clarity /5
David Senra Host, Founders Podcast 2 6 raw ≈4.0
Sam Altman CEO, OpenAI 1 6 raw ≈4.5
Eric Glyman Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Ramp 1 6 raw ≈4.0
Travis Kalanick CEO, Atoms 1 6 raw ≈4.0
Ed Catmull Co-Founder, Pixar 1 6 raw ≈4.0
Steve Stoute Founder & CEO, UnitedMasters 1 6 raw ≈4.0
Adam Foroughi Co-Founder & CEO, AppLovin 1 6 raw ≈4.0
Scott Wu Co-founder & CEO, Cognition 1 6 raw ≈4.0
Marc Andreessen Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz 1 6 raw ≈4.0
Tobi Lütke Co-Founder and CEO, Shopify 1 6 raw ≈4.0
Jimmy Iovine Co-founder, Beats Electronics 1 6 raw ≈4.0
John Mackey Co-Founder & CEO, Love.Life 1 6 raw ≈4.0
Todd Graves Founder and Co-CEO, Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers 1 6 raw ≈4.0
Daniel Ek Founder & Executive Chairman, Spotify 1 6 raw ≈4.0
David Heinemeier Hansson CTO, 37signals 0 8 raw ≈4.0
Torsten Reil Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Helsing 0 6 raw ≈4.5
Jeff Zalaznick Co-Founder and Partner, Major Food Group 0 6 raw ≈4.5
Doug Leone Partner, Sequoia Capital 0 6 raw ≈4.5
Micky Malka Founder & Managing Partner, Ribbit Capital 0 6 raw ≈4.0
Lulu Cheng Meservey Founder and CEO, Rostra 0 6 raw ≈4.5
Rick Rubin Record Producer and Author 0 6 raw ≈4.5
Jonathan Ross Founder, Groq 0 6 raw ≈4.5
Gustav Söderström Co-CEO, Spotify 0 6 raw ≈4.5
David Baszucki Co-founder & CEO, Roblox 0 6 raw ≈4.0
Strauss Zelnick Chairman & CEO, Take-Two Interactive 0 6 raw ≈4.5
Evan Spiegel Co-Founder and CEO, Snap Inc. 0 6 raw ≈4.5
Brian Armstrong Co-Founder & CEO, Coinbase 0 6 raw ≈4.5
Tony Xu Co-Founder and CEO, DoorDash 0 6 raw ≈4.5
Jason Fried Co-founder and CEO, 37signals 0 6 raw ≈4.0
Michael Dell Founder, Chairman & CEO, Dell Technologies 0 6 raw ≈4.5
Zach Dell Co-Founder and CEO, Base Power 0 6 raw ≈4.5
James Dyson Founder and Chief Engineer, Dyson 0 5 raw ≈4.5
Patrick O'Shaughnessy Founder & CEO, Positive Sum 0 5 raw ≈4.0
Brad Jacobs Chairman & CEO, QXO, Inc. 0 5 raw ≈4.5
Michael Ovitz Chairman, Treville Capital Group 0 4 raw ≈4.0
Dana White CEO and President, UFC 0 4 raw ≈4.0
Ivanka Trump 0 2 raw

The moments, on tape

The question David asked, then the AI assessment note from the answer. Tap to play the moment. Not addressed = the question was not engaged; redirected = acknowledged, then steered elsewhere.

Not addressed David Senra ▶ 1:52:46

“You've got to be Directing that time and deploying that capital that things have the greatest returns. Otherwise, it's Watt Watt.”

answered: “There's another thing that Fred Smith said, um, that again, like when I'm reading”

Not addressed Ed Catmull ▶ 20:19

“Apart from who was on the board, how was it, how did Steve manage the board differently than other CEOs?”

answered: “we had a, a few of the critical issues out of the company.”

Not addressed Todd Graves ▶ 16:41

“You're going to live to survive the next day. So what are you like, how do you compare like the hours you're working now compared to when you started this thing?”

answered: “So when I started up and I give young entrepreneurs this advice”

Not addressed Tobi Lütke ▶ 32:37

“No, it's not, they're not boring to, to me and to people listening. Wait, Why do you hate the way that they were doing competition in the industry?”

answered: “What I love about entrepreneurship is the, is, is the level of responsibility”

Not addressed Steve Stoute ▶ 26:29

“Dude, how many people are wearing Jordans without playing basketball on them?”

answered: “So, like, let's go into the other thing, which is the non-performance stuff.”

Redirected Marc Andreessen ▶ 1:11:12

“Do you want to say what bicycle face is?”

answered: “every new technology is greeted with what they call a moral panic”

Redirected Sam Altman ▶ 2:11

“And so at night, he is literally trying to rebuild. If, if you started from scratch, what would you do with deter current technology?”

answered: “That was the other thing I was going to say about him is he does”

Redirected Jimmy Iovine ▶ 1:02:12

“Five years from now, do you think we're gonna have AI, complete AI-created music that is at the top of the charts? Isn't it already happening?”

answered: “I don't know. Let me tell you, I don't fucking know.”

Redirected Daniel Ek ▶ 52:11

“That is HubSpot.com. Are there any product updates that get pushed live that you didn't like?”

answered: “Oh, plenty. Um, plenty. And, and, and this may be a little bit unique”

Redirected Eric Glyman ▶ 20:25

“Do you want to keep the core product kernel team together? Like, how do you think about that?”

answered: “So I agree with, with Elon's philosophy of trying to find really smart people”

Redirected Travis Kalanick ▶ 1:42:27

“Do you still put an emphasis, I've heard you speak about this in the past, an emphasis of hiring and empowering young people? Is this business different than like when you were launching new cities in Uber, for example, where you gave a lot of responsibility to, you know, aggressive young people?”

answered: “I sort of have this, this concept I call the line”

Redirected Adam Foroughi ▶ 18:48

“How much profit do you think you were making on a, on a monthly basis out of that million?”

answered: “Barely. It was, it was a little bit profitable, but the”

Redirected Scott Wu ▶ 23:05

“If Devin could work for a year without any human assistance, what would you have it do right now? Destroy your competitors.”

answered: “All sorts of things. I mean, no, I mean, I, I still wake up and think about this”

Redirected John Mackey ▶ 41:48

“They're like, I want a download of your thoughts on how you think about your business and like what you're doing. What did you, did you notice as you're building this network and you're meeting all these other people in all these different regions, did you think you were different from them?”

answered: “Sure. I mean, but that, One of the things I liked about your”

Redirected David Senra ▶ 1:33:09

“How do I allocate my time across the existing problem?”

answered: “Elon's famous for like, what is the, the bottleneck here?”

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