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.

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why aren't all 3 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 Partly supported
Sam Yam: AdMob Acquired Adworld One Month Before Google Acquired AdMob
“It was a company called AdMob, and then literally the month afterwards, we were acquired into Google.”
Sam Yam Jan 11, 2021 ▶ 21:30 Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Patreon launched securely storing credit cards but without actual payment processing logic
“We couldn't, for example we couldn't process all the payments at that time yet. I hadn't hooked any of that up. We could accept your credit card. And so that would get saved, you know, very securely by the way, because we were working at Stripe, but we hadn't …”
Sam Yam Jan 11, 2021 ▶ 50:52 Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam
Assertion Supported
Sam Yam built an In-N-Out delivery service at Stanford before DoorDash
“I created a website, I was driving burgers around and to campus. This is, that was my senior year in particular.”
Sam Yam Jan 11, 2021 ▶ 7:23 Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam
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