The Ledger

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.

clear all ✕

why aren't all 5 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

Assertion Supported
Raz: Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang later became an investor in Zola
“And by the way, Jerry Yang, one of the heroes that Shan had hanging on a poster on her bedroom wall when she was a kid, he's actually now an investor in Zola.”
Guy Raz Apr 18, 2022 ▶ 1:09:01 Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
Assertion Supported
Ma: Zola raised its Series A one week before product launch
“Yeah, it got us to launch, which was around four to six months, and we actually raised our Series A round the week before we launched.”
Shan-Lyn Ma Apr 18, 2022 ▶ 42:48 Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
Assertion Supported
Kevin Ryan provided Zola's $250k seed check and joined as co-founder
“Yeah, that first check was 250,000. So he was the first seed investor, but more importantly, he also joined us as a co-founder and chairman of the board, and so brought not just the cash, but also, you know, his experience and advice.”
Shan-Lyn Ma Apr 18, 2022 ▶ 41:55 Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
Assertion Supported
Ma: Zola raised a Series D round at a $600M valuation
“In 2018, we raised a Series D round, which valued us at six hundred million.”
Shan-Lyn Ma Apr 18, 2022 ▶ 1:07:07 Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
Assertion Supported
Ma: Zola had always featured same-sex couples in its TV advertising
“By that time, we had been doing TV ads for a number of years, and we had always had same-sex couples in all our advertising”
Shan-Lyn Ma Apr 18, 2022 ▶ 59:07 Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 800 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.