The Argument Index
Debate potential by speaker, the highest-scored statement each year, and the companies with the most bearish calls on record. All of it clickable, all of it playable.
People
Average debate potential by speaker
All 207 guests with 5 or more scored statements, ranked. 4 more have fewer than 5, too few for a fair average, and the host is scored on his own page. Sort or filter below.
| # | Person | Avg debate potential | Statements scored |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Craig Kaplan Founder & CEO, iQ Company | 2.83 | 12 |
| 2 | Joe Alalu Co-Founder & General Partner, Daring Ventures | 2.8 | 5 |
| 3 | Arvinder Gujral Chief Revenue Officer, EnableX | 2.8 | 5 |
| 4 | Sindhu Joseph Founder & CEO, CogniCor | 2.78 | 9 |
| 5 | Subhendu Panigrahi Co-Founder & CEO, FOXO | 2.75 | 12 |
| 6 | Maarten van Kroonenburg Founder & CEO, BW Ventures | 2.67 | 9 |
| 7 | Anand Gandhi Founder & CEO, Memesys Culture Lab | 2.67 | 6 |
| 8 | Tarun Katial Founder & CEO, coto | 2.67 | 12 |
| 9 | David Brehm Managing Director, Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund | 2.57 | 7 |
| 10 | Itamar Novik Founder & General Partner, Recursive Ventures | 2.55 | 11 |
| 11 | Dr. Shubha Vilas Spiritual Teacher & Author | 2.52 | 21 |
| 12 | Greg Martin Co-founder & CEO, Ghost Security | 2.5 | 10 |
| 13 | Zain Memon Co-Founder, Memesys Culture Lab | 2.5 | 6 |
| 14 | Scott Garber Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Early Light Ventures | 2.47 | 15 |
| 15 | Todd Smith Co-Founder & CEO, TAHO | 2.44 | 9 |
| 16 | Joel Martin Operating Partner, HealthX Ventures | 2.43 | 7 |
| 17 | Andrew Hoag Co-founder & CEO, Dash Labs | 2.42 | 12 |
| 18 | Richa Chadha Co-Founder and Producer, Pushing Buttons Studios | 2.42 | 31 |
| 19 | Sandhya (Sonia) Venkatachalam Founder and Managing Partner, Axiom Partners | 2.41 | 17 |
| 20 | Lalit Ahuja Founder & CEO, ANSR | 2.4 | 20 |
| 21 | Taylor Cordoba | 2.36 | 14 |
| 22 | David Yang Co-Founder and President, Newo.ai | 2.36 | 14 |
| 23 | Jonathan Lowenhar Founder & Managing Partner, Enjoy The Work | 2.36 | 11 |
| 24 | Corey Jeffrey Partner, Inovia Capital | 2.35 | 17 |
| 25 | Adam Chen Chief Revenue Officer, FinStrat Management | 2.33 | 9 |
| 26 | Renan Devillieres Co-founder & CEO, OSS Ventures | 2.33 | 9 |
| 27 | Anar Bayramov Head of Product, Polygraf AI | 2.31 | 13 |
| 28 | Mukul Deora Transmedia Producer, Tara Gaming Limited | 2.31 | 13 |
| 29 | Sam Huang Principal, BMW i Ventures | 2.3 | 10 |
| 30 | Zach Posner Co-Founder and Managing Partner, The LegalTech Fund | 2.3 | 10 |
| 31 | Amish Tripathi Co-founder, Tara Gaming Limited | 2.3 | 10 |
| 32 | Logan Brown Founder and CEO, Soxton | 2.25 | 16 |
| 33 | Anthony Kaniowski | 2.25 | 12 |
| 34 | Cyril Shtabtsovsky Founder, AlphaSemantic | 2.25 | 8 |
| 35 | Peter Walker | 2.24 | 17 |
| 36 | Peeyush Ranjan Co-Founder and CEO, Fermi.ai | 2.24 | 21 |
| 37 | John Hargrave | 2.23 | 13 |
| 38 | Aaron Stachel Partner, FirstMile Ventures | 2.22 | 9 |
| 39 | Jennifer Zimmerman Expert in Residence, X&O | 2.2 | 15 |
| 40 | Les Craig General Partner, Next Frontier Capital | 2.2 | 10 |
| 41 | Eugene Johnson Founder & CEO, Revi | 2.19 | 16 |
| 42 | Jim Curry Co-Founder and CEO, BuildGroup | 2.19 | 16 |
| 43 | Grace Brown Founder & CEO, Andromeda | 2.18 | 11 |
| 44 | Katerina Axelsson Founder and CEO, Tastry | 2.18 | 11 |
| 45 | Vinayak Hegde Principal AI Advocate, Microsoft | 2.17 | 12 |
| 46 | Jenna Anderson Co-Founder and CEO, Kihealth | 2.16 | 19 |
| 47 | Keong Chan Managing Director, Out the Back Ventures | 2.15 | 13 |
| 48 | Kingshuk Khan Founder and CEO, Ikigai | 2.14 | 7 |
| 49 | Manfred Heiss Founder & CEO, MyAutoData | 2.13 | 15 |
| 50 | Amit Banka Founder and CEO, WeNaturalists | 2.13 | 15 |
| 51 | Konstantin Sonkin Co-Founder and CEO, i-BrainTech | 2.12 | 16 |
| 52 | Eyal Karmi Co-founder & CEO, Nekuda | 2.12 | 8 |
| 53 | Rick Lash Board Member, MSU Research Foundation | 2.12 | 8 |
| 54 | Dan Rizzo Innovation Fellow, Inovalon | 2.12 | 8 |
| 55 | Stephen Emil Co-Founder & CEO, Chronilogix | 2.11 | 9 |
| 56 | David Cross CISO, Atlassian | 2.11 | 9 |
| 57 | Howard Dawber Deputy Mayor for Business, Greater London Authority | 2.11 | 19 |
| 58 | JT Benton Co-Founder, 9point8 Collective | 2.09 | 11 |
| 59 | Luke Cooper Founding Managing Partner, Latimer Ventures | 2.09 | 11 |
| 60 | Ishan Girdhar Studio Lead, The LegalTech Fund | 2.09 | 11 |
| 61 | Sarah Dusek Managing Partner, Enygma Ventures | 2.08 | 25 |
| 62 | Justin Ramsaran Co-Founder & CEO, R Group | 2.08 | 12 |
| 63 | Ari Newman | 2.07 | 14 |
| 64 | Ryan Falvey | 2.07 | 14 |
| 65 | David Evans Managing Partner, Sentiero Ventures | 2.07 | 15 |
| 66 | Shane Emmons Co-Founder and CEO, Swept AI | 2.06 | 18 |
| 67 | AJ Dye COO, Vertex Innovations | 2.06 | 17 |
| 68 | Bobby Franklin | 2 | 11 |
| 69 | Andrey Doronichev Founder & CEO, Optic | 2 | 13 |
| 70 | James Paul Costa Founder, Grapetree Ventures | 2 | 5 |
| 71 | Jeremy Toeman SVP of AI Innovation, JWX | 2 | 11 |
| 72 | Yotam Cohen Co-Founder and CEO, Daisy | 2 | 13 |
| 73 | Danielle DiAgostaro Managing Director, Alchemist Accelerator | 2 | 15 |
| 74 | Chris Rizik | 2 | 14 |
| 75 | Dr. Yvonne Lutsch Investment Director, Lam Capital | 2 | 11 |
| 76 | Yash Hemeraj General Partner, Benhamou Global Ventures | 2 | 17 |
| 77 | Edward Hieatt | 2 | 12 |
| 78 | Todd Thomas | 2 | 14 |
| 79 | Ralph Groce President & COO, Scroobius | 2 | 7 |
| 80 | Suzanne El-Moursi Co-founder & CEO, BrightHive | 2 | 13 |
| 81 | Nathan Beckord CEO & Founder, Foundersuite | 2 | 8 |
| 82 | Michelle Cole Partner, Paragraph | 2 | 8 |
| 83 | Bernard Chong Angel Investor, Bren Investments | 2 | 5 |
| 84 | Anil Srinivas Chilla Author & Leadership Practitioner | 2 | 6 |
| 85 | Dr. Rebecca Port Chief People Officer, Okta | 2 | 15 |
| 86 | Vijay Rajagopal Chief Growth Officer, Nugget by Zomato | 2 | 16 |
| 87 | Ritukar Vijay Co-Founder and CEO, Ottonomy Inc. | 2 | 13 |
| 88 | Pankaj Rai Group Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Aditya Birla Group | 1.97 | 30 |
| 89 | Howard Morgan Chairman, B Capital Group | 1.96 | 27 |
| 90 | Rick Marini Co-Founder, President & COO, Rails | 1.94 | 16 |
| 91 | Hale Bullen Investment Manager, PS27 Ventures | 1.94 | 18 |
| 92 | Brad Whistler Founding Partner, Paragraph | 1.94 | 16 |
| 93 | David Rothzeid Principal, Shield Capital | 1.93 | 14 |
| 94 | Maggie Vo Managing Partner & CIO, Fuel Venture Capital | 1.93 | 15 |
| 95 | Preeti Vyas President of Content Strategy, Mythik | 1.93 | 14 |
| 96 | Nick Jain Founder, Content Hurricane | 1.92 | 12 |
| 97 | Rodney Robinson Co-founder & CEO, TabaPay | 1.91 | 23 |
| 98 | Anastasia Slivker Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright | 1.91 | 11 |
| 99 | Aja Beckett Founder & CEO, Shotsy | 1.9 | 10 |
| 100 | Ronan Soffer Chief Product Officer, Intuition Robotics | 1.89 | 9 |
| 101 | Kim Thanos Founder and CEO, Lumen Learning | 1.89 | 9 |
| 102 | Jake Soffer Founder and CEO, FirmPilot | 1.89 | 9 |
| 103 | Dr. Rajesh Puneyani VP of Technology & Site Leader, Kenvue | 1.89 | 9 |
| 104 | Ryan Chandra Data & AI Investment Lead, Accenture Ventures | 1.88 | 17 |
| 105 | Albert Bou Fadel Founder and CEO, SmartBarrel | 1.88 | 16 |
| 106 | Andy Galpin Founder, Tree and Leaf Partners | 1.88 | 8 |
| 107 | Sonali Vijayavargiya Founder & Managing Director, Augment Ventures | 1.87 | 15 |
| 108 | Ashray Malhotra GenAI, Adobe | 1.87 | 15 |
| 109 | Shaun Modi | 1.86 | 14 |
| 110 | Brandon Williams General Counsel and COO, Steve Harvey Global | 1.86 | 7 |
| 111 | Dr. Matt Keener Co-Founder & CMO, Blackbird Health | 1.86 | 7 |
| 112 | Carl Falk Founder & CEO, Botdoc | 1.86 | 7 |
| 113 | Arjun Vaidya Co-Founder & Investment Partner, V3 Ventures | 1.86 | 21 |
| 114 | Scott Wharton CEO, Tandem PV | 1.85 | 13 |
| 115 | Brian Parks | 1.85 | 13 |
| 116 | Yeri Lopez Director of Partnerships, J2 Ventures | 1.85 | 13 |
| 117 | Steve DeMarco | 1.83 | 6 |
| 118 | Raj Malik Partner, Pixel Perfect Ventures | 1.83 | 6 |
| 119 | Kyle Mounts Managing Partner, Aero X Ventures | 1.83 | 12 |
| 120 | Alex Kirby Founder & CEO, Total Family | 1.82 | 11 |
| 121 | Sid Masson Co-Founder and CEO, Wokelo AI | 1.82 | 11 |
| 122 | Charles Anselm CEO & Co-Founder, Osyte | 1.82 | 11 |
| 123 | James McDowell Founding Partner, Arcanum Capital | 1.82 | 11 |
| 124 | Matt Smith Founder & CIO, Chronometer Partners | 1.81 | 16 |
| 125 | Deepak Ramaswamy Co-founder & CTO, LightSpun | 1.8 | 5 |
| 126 | Jason Ambrose Chief Executive Officer, Backstory | 1.8 | 10 |
| 127 | Kevin Lancaster Founder and CEO, Channel Program | 1.8 | 5 |
| 128 | Sean Tepper Founder & CEO, Tykr | 1.8 | 15 |
| 129 | Vish Hari Founder & CEO, Ego | 1.79 | 19 |
| 130 | Ash Vaidya Managing Director, Multiplier Capital | 1.78 | 9 |
| 131 | Josh Kohn Co-Founder & CEO, Meridian Performance Systems | 1.77 | 13 |
| 132 | Srikant Vasan Founder & Managing Partner, Avesta Fund | 1.77 | 13 |
| 133 | Adam Rubenstein Co-Founder and CEO, Traq.ai | 1.77 | 13 |
| 134 | Matt Schappell Principal, Frist Cressey Ventures | 1.75 | 8 |
| 135 | John Glushik Managing Director, HG Ventures | 1.75 | 12 |
| 136 | Tanis Jorge Founder, The Cofounder's Hub | 1.75 | 8 |
| 137 | Yakov Filippenko Founder & CEO, Intch | 1.75 | 12 |
| 138 | Danica Chilibeck Co-Founder and CEO, Caddie AI | 1.75 | 12 |
| 139 | Brad DiPaolo Founder and CEO, CandidateHub | 1.75 | 12 |
| 140 | Ewout De Wit Consul General, Kingdom of the Netherlands | 1.75 | 16 |
| 141 | Adam Metcalf | 1.73 | 11 |
| 142 | Paroma Chatterjee CEO, Revolut India | 1.72 | 36 |
| 143 | Glenn Borok Principal, Alumni Ventures | 1.71 | 7 |
| 144 | Cyrus Wadia CEO, Activate | 1.71 | 7 |
| 145 | Melanie Nabar Principal, Volition Capital | 1.71 | 17 |
| 146 | Amit Patel Managing Partner, Owl Ventures | 1.71 | 7 |
| 147 | Cindy Padnos | 1.71 | 14 |
| 148 | Kevin Grossman Vice President, Decathlon Capital Partners | 1.71 | 14 |
| 149 | Marty Ringlein | 1.71 | 14 |
| 150 | Sven Harmsen Director of External Ventures, NOVA by Saint-Gobain | 1.7 | 10 |
| 151 | Vikram Srinivasan Co-founder & CEO, Needl.ai | 1.7 | 10 |
| 152 | Bikram Bakshi Partner, Blu Venture Investors | 1.7 | 10 |
| 153 | Dr. Kushal Sanghvi Director, Animmoov Digital Media | 1.7 | 10 |
| 154 | Nathan Rosenberg Co-Founder and CEO, Farmblox | 1.68 | 19 |
| 155 | Brian Lindstrom Partner, HealthX Ventures | 1.68 | 19 |
| 156 | Vishakha Singh Co-founder, Lokaa Entertainment | 1.68 | 19 |
| 157 | Matthew Lewis CRO and U.S. GM, Darrow | 1.67 | 6 |
| 158 | Yehuda Niv Founder & CEO, Spines | 1.67 | 9 |
| 159 | Alex Birch Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Veritas Equity Partners | 1.67 | 18 |
| 160 | Jeff Schwartz Founder and CEO, dataroomHQ | 1.67 | 6 |
| 161 | Jatin Varma Founder, Comic Con India | 1.67 | 24 |
| 162 | Harry Statter | 1.64 | 14 |
| 163 | Sarah Applebaum Partner, Pangaea Ventures | 1.64 | 11 |
| 164 | Rami Khoshan General Partner, Frances Ann Capital | 1.64 | 11 |
| 165 | Diane Yu Co-founder & CEO, TidalWave | 1.62 | 8 |
| 166 | Kenny Vassigh Founder & CEO, Caylan Space | 1.62 | 8 |
| 167 | Avanlee Christine Founder & CEO, Avanlee Care | 1.62 | 8 |
| 168 | Karl Seelbach Co-Founder, Skribe.ai | 1.62 | 16 |
| 169 | Andrew Massay Co-Founder & CTO, Convos | 1.61 | 23 |
| 170 | Nick Mastronardi Co-Founder and CEO, Polco | 1.61 | 18 |
| 171 | Ranvir Mangat Co-Founder and COO, InsightRX | 1.6 | 10 |
| 172 | Kamal Sharma Global Connected Hubs Leader & CIO, Carrier | 1.6 | 15 |
| 173 | Jon McLaughlin Managing Partner, Emberline | 1.58 | 19 |
| 174 | Gaurav Bhattacharya | 1.58 | 12 |
| 175 | Jay Crone | 1.57 | 7 |
| 176 | Rajat Jadhav Co-founder & CEO, Bold Care | 1.57 | 21 |
| 177 | Brian Armstrong Co-Founder & CEO, Coinbase | 1.56 | 9 |
| 178 | Greg Davis Founder and CEO, Overwatch Imaging | 1.56 | 9 |
| 179 | Patrick Russo Founding CEO, OnStation | 1.56 | 9 |
| 180 | Phil Nadel Managing Director, Forefront Venture Partners | 1.56 | 9 |
| 181 | Tamerlan Rakhmetzhanov Co-founder & CEO, Armeta AI | 1.54 | 13 |
| 182 | Thomas Kluz | 1.54 | 13 |
| 183 | Andrew Duffell | 1.5 | 12 |
| 184 | Levi King | 1.5 | 14 |
| 185 | France Hoang Founder & CEO, BoodleBox | 1.5 | 8 |
| 186 | Shawn Olds Co-Founder and CEO, boodleAI | 1.5 | 12 |
| 187 | Melissa Kozak | 1.5 | 12 |
| 188 | Subramanya Rao Founder and CEO, Discover Dollar | 1.5 | 8 |
| 189 | Malhar Pinnelli VP & Country Leader, 7-Eleven GSC India | 1.5 | 20 |
| 190 | Erin Niehaus Partner, DigitalDx Ventures | 1.47 | 15 |
| 191 | Ishaan Khanna CEO, Antara Assisted Care Services | 1.47 | 30 |
| 192 | Amar Bakshi Co-Founder, Noro | 1.46 | 13 |
| 193 | Keith Harrington | 1.46 | 13 |
| 194 | Bill Lakeland Co-Founder and CEO, Spexi | 1.45 | 11 |
| 195 | David Rolf Head of Visa Ventures, Visa | 1.45 | 11 |
| 196 | Dr. Ashley Blackington | 1.43 | 14 |
| 197 | Leigh-Ann Buchanan | 1.43 | 14 |
| 198 | Adam Mangana Co-Founder, President & CEO, OptimaEd | 1.39 | 18 |
| 199 | Sanjeev Gupta CEO, Karnataka Digital Economy Mission | 1.35 | 17 |
| 200 | Lena Mareike Wenzel Innovation Manager, EIT Food | 1.33 | 12 |
| 201 | Abhay Tandon General Partner, 3to1 Capital | 1.33 | 12 |
| 202 | Justin Henshaw Founder & CEO, GAGE | 1.27 | 15 |
| 203 | Caroline Winnett Executive Director, Berkeley SkyDeck | 1.25 | 12 |
| 204 | Sriram Sundararajan Managing Partner, HypergrowthLabs Capital | 1.22 | 9 |
| 205 | Sivan Zamir | 1.21 | 14 |
| 206 | Andrea Dattilo Co-founder & CEO, Vera AI Technologies | 1.2 | 5 |
| 207 | Belson Coutinho Co-founder & COO, Akasa Air | 1.12 | 17 |
Companies
The most bearish calls
Debate potential is an AI score of how much a statement invites disagreement. Bearish counts tally what was said about a company on the show; they describe the conversation, not the company. Every count opens to the exact tape. full disclaimer →
All 153 companies, funds and products with at least one bearish claim on the record.
Highest debate potential, by year
2026
Panigrahi claims Indian clinics are curing Alzheimer's using exosome therapy.
“There are players who do stem cell rejuvenation. They are curing dementia and Alzheimer through exosome therapy or stem cell rejuvenation.”
Chadha: Patriarchy hurts men the most; violence against women is the symptom
“Because if there's anything patriarchy hurts, it's men. We are just the symptoms. We just get, there's just domestic violence and rape and violence of all kinds against women, yes. But who really suffers, who never has an outlet, who never has the strength to …”
2025
Dawber: London Mayor banned Accenture from contracts after it abandoned DEI
“When Accenture And I'll name them. When Accenture said, right, we're abandoning DEI. Our mayor Sadiq Khan, who was, is obviously, you know, comes from a Pakistani background. His parents came to London as immigrants when and you know, is, is very much reflecti…”
2024
Garber: Web3 is largely a gimmick and has zero fund investments
“It's not web three where I don't believe in it at all. I'm just a gimmick to some extent, which is what I thought in fund one, which is why there's no web three companies in there. And that's why I've never invested in a web three companies.”