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.
why aren't all 4 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
Williams defends Twitter's heavily criticized trust and safety staff as integrity-driven
“You know, the team over the years gotten a lot of flack on the trust and safety side, but those people are some of the most earnest, hardworking, Integrity-driven folks I've ever seen in, in the world of business”
Williams: Late 1990s Silicon Valley fundraising was strictly a connections game
“And it was frustrating because everything you read is like, oh, it's so easy to raise money just rolling down the Sand Hill Road, and I didn't know anyone. Like, especially at the time, it's very, very much a connection game”
Williams: Tony Stubblebine is running Medium better than I did
“He's doing a great job, doing a better job than I was doing running Medium.”
Williams admits he was not a great CEO for a scaling Twitter
“I was not a great CEO by any stretch, and I think I was getting better at What I was very good at was product, and knowing, in my opinion, product and strategy, and knowing where to take the company, what we should build. But the company got to a size where lo…”