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.
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Average debate potential by speaker
All 318 guests with 5 or more scored statements, ranked. 1 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 | Edwin Chen Founder & CEO, Surge AI | 3.33 | 15 |
| 2 | Matt MacInnis Chief Product Officer, Rippling | 3.04 | 27 |
| 3 | Marty Cagan Founder, Silicon Valley Product Group | 2.94 | 48 |
| 4 | Qasar Younis Co-founder & CEO, Applied Intuition | 2.83 | 24 |
| 5 | Ben Horowitz Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.77 | 26 |
| 6 | Keith Rabois Managing Director, Khosla Ventures | 2.75 | 40 |
| 7 | Judd Antin Founder & Executive Coach, Judd Antin Consulting | 2.75 | 28 |
| 8 | Tony Fadell Principal, Build Collective | 2.74 | 23 |
| 9 | Marc Andreessen Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.74 | 31 |
| 10 | Lazar Yovanovich Vibe Coding Engineer, Lovable | 2.74 | 31 |
| 11 | Ben Mann Co-Founder, Anthropic | 2.73 | 37 |
| 12 | Anish Acharya General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.72 | 43 |
| 13 | Benedict Evans Independent Technology Analyst | 2.7 | 23 |
| 14 | Eli Schwartz SEO & Growth Advisor | 2.68 | 34 |
| 15 | Sam Lessin Founding Partner, Slow Ventures | 2.65 | 20 |
| 16 | Christopher Lochhead Co-Founding Partner, Play Bigger Advisors | 2.63 | 27 |
| 17 | Eoghan McCabe Co-Founder & CEO, Intercom | 2.62 | 29 |
| 18 | Max Schoening Head of Product, Notion | 2.6 | 40 |
| 19 | Jenny Wen Head of Design, Anthropic | 2.59 | 17 |
| 20 | Jason Fried Co-founder and CEO, 37signals | 2.59 | 41 |
| 21 | Tobi Lütke Co-Founder and CEO, Shopify | 2.58 | 26 |
| 22 | Seth Godin Author, Speaker, and Teacher, Seth's Blog | 2.57 | 21 |
| 23 | Camille Fournier VP of Engineering, CoreWeave | 2.57 | 21 |
| 24 | Jen Abel Co-Founder, JJELLYFISH | 2.56 | 90 |
| 25 | Sander Schulhoff CEO, InventoryQuant | 2.56 | 52 |
| 26 | Brian Chesky Co-founder and CEO, Airbnb | 2.56 | 25 |
| 27 | Tom Verrilli Chief Product Officer, Whatnot | 2.55 | 33 |
| 28 | Rory Sutherland Vice Chairman, Ogilvy UK | 2.54 | 26 |
| 29 | Annie Duke Special Partner, First Round Capital | 2.53 | 15 |
| 30 | Ryan Singer Founder and Product Advisor, Felt Presence | 2.52 | 25 |
| 31 | Roger Martin Professor Emeritus, Rotman School of Management | 2.52 | 27 |
| 32 | Dan Shipper Co-Founder and CEO, Every | 2.5 | 58 |
| 33 | Hamilton Helmer Co-Founder & Co-CIO, Strategy Capital | 2.5 | 16 |
| 34 | Sriram Krishnan | 2.5 | 14 |
| 35 | Eric Ries Founder & CEO, Long-Term Stock Exchange | 2.49 | 70 |
| 36 | Jason Lemkin Founder & CEO, SaaStr | 2.49 | 103 |
| 37 | Adam Ward Head of Talent, Cursor | 2.48 | 33 |
| 38 | Joe Hudson Founder & Master Executive Coach, Art of Accomplishment | 2.48 | 23 |
| 39 | Kunal Shah Founder & CEO, CRED | 2.48 | 29 |
| 40 | Will Larson CTO, Imprint | 2.47 | 17 |
| 41 | Bob Baxley SVP of Design & Experience, ThoughtSpot | 2.46 | 37 |
| 42 | Matt Mochary Founder & CEO Coach, Mochary Method | 2.46 | 26 |
| 43 | Brian Balfour Founder & CEO, Reforge | 2.45 | 49 |
| 44 | Shaun Clowes Chief Product Officer, Confluent | 2.45 | 22 |
| 45 | Oji Udezue Founder, ProductMind | 2.43 | 35 |
| 46 | Matt LeMay Co-founder and Partner, Sudden Compass | 2.43 | 21 |
| 47 | Richard Rumelt Professor Emeritus, UCLA Anderson School of Management | 2.43 | 23 |
| 48 | Michael Truell Co-founder & CEO, Anysphere | 2.42 | 31 |
| 49 | Melissa Perri Founder & CEO, Product Institute | 2.42 | 43 |
| 50 | Jonathan Lowenhar Founder & Managing Partner, Enjoy The Work | 2.41 | 17 |
| 51 | Maggie Crowley VP of Product, Toast | 2.41 | 22 |
| 52 | Elena Verna Head of Growth, Lovable | 2.4 | 121 |
| 53 | Tamar Yehoshua Chief Product and AI Officer, Atlassian | 2.4 | 20 |
| 54 | Evan LaPointe Founder, CORE Sciences | 2.4 | 20 |
| 55 | Aarthi Ramamurthy Founder & General Partner, Schema Ventures | 2.4 | 5 |
| 56 | Patrick Campbell Founder & CEO, ProfitWell | 2.4 | 25 |
| 57 | Mark Pincus Founder & Executive Chairman, Zynga | 2.39 | 36 |
| 58 | Simon Willison Creator, Datasette | 2.39 | 44 |
| 59 | Jeffrey Pfeffer Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business | 2.39 | 23 |
| 60 | Fei-Fei Li Co-Founder and CEO, World Labs | 2.38 | 16 |
| 61 | Hamel Husain Founder & AI Consultant, Parlance Labs | 2.38 | 13 |
| 62 | Ezinne Udezue | 2.38 | 8 |
| 63 | JM Nickels Senior Director of Product Management, Uber | 2.38 | 13 |
| 64 | Gaurav Misra Co-founder & CEO, Captions | 2.37 | 35 |
| 65 | Sahil Mansuri Founder and CEO, Bravado | 2.36 | 22 |
| 66 | Jeetu Patel President & CPO, Cisco | 2.35 | 20 |
| 67 | Dmitry Zlokazov Global Head of Product, Revolut | 2.35 | 26 |
| 68 | Matt Dixon Co-Founder, DCM Insights | 2.35 | 17 |
| 69 | Gustaf Alströmer Group Partner, Y Combinator | 2.34 | 29 |
| 70 | Adam Mosseri Head of Instagram, Meta | 2.33 | 24 |
| 71 | Sherwin Wu Head of Engineering, OpenAI Platform | 2.33 | 24 |
| 72 | Bob Moesta CEO and Founder, The Re-Wired Group | 2.33 | 66 |
| 73 | Nir Eyal Author & Consultant, Nir & Far | 2.33 | 24 |
| 74 | Geoff Charles Chief Product Officer, Ramp | 2.33 | 33 |
| 75 | Jeremy Henrickson SVP of Product, Rippling | 2.33 | 12 |
| 76 | Casey Winters Co-Founder and CEO, SuperMe | 2.33 | 48 |
| 77 | Marily Nika GenAI Product Lead, Google | 2.33 | 9 |
| 78 | Pete Kazanjy Co-founder & CRO, Atrium | 2.33 | 15 |
| 79 | Teresa Torres Founder, Product Talk | 2.33 | 18 |
| 80 | Ken Norton Executive Coach and Founder, Bring the Donuts | 2.33 | 12 |
| 81 | Caitlin Kalinowski Board Director, Axon | 2.31 | 29 |
| 82 | David Placek Founder & President, Lexicon Branding | 2.3 | 20 |
| 83 | Varun Mohan CEO & Co-Founder, Windsurf | 2.3 | 37 |
| 84 | Nan Yu Head of Product, Linear | 2.3 | 23 |
| 85 | Marc Benioff Chair, CEO & Co-Founder, Salesforce | 2.3 | 23 |
| 86 | Emily Kramer Co-Founder, MKT1 | 2.3 | 23 |
| 87 | Nikhyl Singhal Founder, The Skip | 2.29 | 52 |
| 88 | Jason Cohen Founder & Chief Innovation Officer, WP Engine | 2.29 | 21 |
| 89 | Anuj Rathi Chief Business and Growth Officer, Cleartrip | 2.29 | 21 |
| 90 | Asha Sharma CEO, Microsoft Gaming | 2.28 | 18 |
| 91 | Howie Liu Co-Founder & CEO, Airtable | 2.28 | 25 |
| 92 | Uri Levine General Partner, The Founders Kitchen | 2.28 | 39 |
| 93 | Shreyas Doshi Startup Advisor & Executive Coach | 2.28 | 25 |
| 94 | Tal Raviv Product Lead, Riverside | 2.28 | 18 |
| 95 | Christian Idiodi Partner, Silicon Valley Product Group | 2.28 | 18 |
| 96 | Paul Adams Chief Product Officer, Intercom | 2.28 | 36 |
| 97 | Boris Cherny Head of Claude Code, Anthropic | 2.27 | 45 |
| 98 | Christine Itwaru VP of Product, Beamer | 2.27 | 11 |
| 99 | Andrew Ambrosino Desktop Lead, Codex, OpenAI | 2.26 | 27 |
| 100 | Brian Halligan Co-Founder & Executive Chairperson, HubSpot | 2.25 | 36 |
| 101 | Chip Huyen Author & Technologist, Tep Studio | 2.25 | 12 |
| 102 | Kayvon Beykpour Co-founder & CEO, Macroscope | 2.25 | 20 |
| 103 | Molly Graham Founder & CEO, Glue Club | 2.24 | 21 |
| 104 | Bret Taylor CEO & Co-Founder, Sierra | 2.24 | 29 |
| 105 | Hilary Gridley Former Head of Core Product, WHOOP | 2.24 | 25 |
| 106 | Farhan Thawar VP & Head of Engineering, Shopify | 2.24 | 25 |
| 107 | Archie Abrams VP of Product & Head of Growth, Shopify | 2.24 | 29 |
| 108 | Kevin Yien Head of Product, Stripe | 2.24 | 29 |
| 109 | Kim Scott Co-Founder, Radical Candor | 2.24 | 21 |
| 110 | Vijay Iyengar Engineering Leader, Sierra | 2.24 | 21 |
| 111 | Stewart Butterfield Co-founder & Former CEO, Slack | 2.23 | 22 |
| 112 | Jerry Colonna Co-Founder and CEO, Reboot.io | 2.23 | 13 |
| 113 | Noam Lovinsky Chief Product Officer, Superhuman | 2.23 | 13 |
| 114 | Donna Lichaw Executive Coach & Author | 2.23 | 13 |
| 115 | Andy Raskin Strategic Narrative Consultant & Advisor | 2.22 | 18 |
| 116 | Noam Segal Founder, UX Quests | 2.21 | 38 |
| 117 | Zevi Arnovitz Product Manager, Meta | 2.21 | 14 |
| 118 | Aparna Chennapragada Chief Product Officer, AI Experiences, Microsoft | 2.21 | 19 |
| 119 | Lane Shackleton Chief Product Officer, Coda | 2.21 | 19 |
| 120 | Luc Levesque Growth Advisor, Shopify | 2.21 | 24 |
| 121 | Nikita Miller SVP of Product Management, The Knot Worldwide | 2.21 | 14 |
| 122 | Dhanji R. Prasanna Chief Technology Officer, Block | 2.2 | 30 |
| 123 | Brendan Foody Co-Founder and CEO, Mercor | 2.2 | 25 |
| 124 | Anton Osika Co-Founder & CEO, Lovable | 2.2 | 15 |
| 125 | Ami Vora Chief Product Officer, Anthropic | 2.2 | 15 |
| 126 | Lauryn Isford Head of Product Growth, Notion | 2.2 | 20 |
| 127 | Ian Silber Head of Product Design, OpenAI | 2.19 | 16 |
| 128 | Evan Spiegel Co-Founder and CEO, Snap Inc. | 2.19 | 26 |
| 129 | Ethan Evans Founder, Level Up | 2.19 | 21 |
| 130 | Laura Schaffer VP of Growth, DigitalOcean | 2.19 | 16 |
| 131 | Ethan Smith CEO and Founder, Graphite | 2.18 | 68 |
| 132 | Andrew Wilkinson Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Tiny | 2.18 | 33 |
| 133 | Rohini Pandey Co-Founder, Transparent Collective | 2.18 | 11 |
| 134 | Scott Belsky Partner, A24 | 2.18 | 17 |
| 135 | Aman Khan Group Product Manager, Google Cloud | 2.18 | 11 |
| 136 | Camille Hearst Head of Fan Monetization, Spotify | 2.18 | 11 |
| 137 | Janna Bastow CEO & Co-Founder, ProdPad | 2.18 | 11 |
| 138 | Peter Deng General Partner, Felicis | 2.17 | 29 |
| 139 | Scott Wu Co-founder & CEO, Cognition | 2.17 | 35 |
| 140 | Alistair Croll Co-founder & Chair, FWD50 | 2.17 | 24 |
| 141 | Nikita Bier Product Growth Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners | 2.17 | 54 |
| 142 | Sarah Tavel Venture Partner, Benchmark | 2.17 | 23 |
| 143 | Karri Saarinen Co-Founder & CEO, Linear | 2.17 | 23 |
| 144 | Ramesh Johari Professor, Stanford University | 2.17 | 23 |
| 145 | Dan Hockenmaier Chief Strategy Officer, Faire | 2.17 | 36 |
| 146 | Nicole Forsgren Senior Director of Developer Intelligence, Google | 2.16 | 38 |
| 147 | Jessica Livingston Co-founder, Y Combinator | 2.16 | 25 |
| 148 | Geoffrey Moore Partner, Wildcat Venture Partners | 2.16 | 45 |
| 149 | Mayur Kamat Founder, RetireOdds | 2.15 | 26 |
| 150 | Alisa Cohn Executive Coach and Founder, Alisa Cohn & Associates | 2.15 | 13 |
| 151 | Christina Wodtke Lecturer, Stanford University | 2.15 | 26 |
| 152 | Josh Miller CEO & Co-founder, The Browser Company | 2.15 | 20 |
| 153 | Kiriti Badam | 2.14 | 14 |
| 154 | Shreya Shankar Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University | 2.14 | 7 |
| 155 | Vikrama Dhiman Head of Product, Gojek | 2.14 | 14 |
| 156 | Jacob Warwick Founder and CEO, ThinkWarwick | 2.13 | 38 |
| 157 | Vlad Loktev Chief Creator Ecosystem Officer, Roblox | 2.13 | 30 |
| 158 | Mike Maples Founding Partner, Floodgate | 2.13 | 39 |
| 159 | Amol Avasare Head of Growth, Anthropic | 2.12 | 26 |
| 160 | Rahul Vohra Founder & CEO, Superhuman | 2.12 | 25 |
| 161 | Dalton Caldwell Co-Founder & General Partner, Standard Capital | 2.12 | 32 |
| 162 | Logan Kilpatrick Product Lead, Google DeepMind | 2.12 | 16 |
| 163 | April Dunford Founder and CEO, Ambient Strategy | 2.12 | 50 |
| 164 | Austin Hay Co-Founder, Clarify | 2.12 | 25 |
| 165 | Cat Wu Head of Product, Anthropic | 2.11 | 38 |
| 166 | Tomer Cohen Former Chief Product Officer, LinkedIn | 2.11 | 35 |
| 167 | Dharmesh Shah Co-Founder and CTO, HubSpot | 2.11 | 28 |
| 168 | Kevin Weil Operator in Residence, Scribble Ventures | 2.1 | 40 |
| 169 | Karina Nguyen Former AI Researcher, OpenAI | 2.1 | 21 |
| 170 | Amjad Masad Co-founder & CEO, Replit | 2.1 | 21 |
| 171 | Sam Schillace Deputy CTO & CVP, Microsoft | 2.1 | 21 |
| 172 | Gustav Söderström Co-CEO, Spotify | 2.1 | 21 |
| 173 | John Cutler Head of Product, Dotwork | 2.1 | 20 |
| 174 | Maor Shlomo Founder & CEO, Base44 | 2.09 | 22 |
| 175 | Drew Houston Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Dropbox | 2.09 | 34 |
| 176 | Ravi Mehta Co-founder & CEO, Outpace | 2.09 | 23 |
| 177 | Yuriy Timen Full-Time Growth Advisor, Self-Employed / Various Companies (previously Global Head of Marketing and Growth, Grammarly) | 2.09 | 22 |
| 178 | Carole Robin Co-Founder, Leaders in Tech | 2.08 | 25 |
| 179 | Chandra Janakiraman Chief Product Officer, VRChat | 2.07 | 15 |
| 180 | Alex Komoroske Co-founder & CEO, Common Tools | 2.07 | 28 |
| 181 | Tara Seshan Product Lead, OpenAI | 2.06 | 33 |
| 182 | Jake Knapp Co-founder & General Partner, Character Capital | 2.06 | 17 |
| 183 | Nabeel S. Qureshi Visiting Scholar, Mercatus Center | 2.06 | 34 |
| 184 | Emilie Gerber Founder and CEO, Six Eastern | 2.06 | 32 |
| 185 | Jiaona Zhang Chief Product Officer, Laurel | 2.06 | 16 |
| 186 | Inbal Shani Chief Product Officer, Twilio | 2.06 | 16 |
| 187 | Dylan Field Co-founder and CEO, Figma | 2.05 | 43 |
| 188 | Shishir Mehrotra Chief Executive Officer, Superhuman | 2.05 | 21 |
| 189 | Tristan de Montebello CEO and Co-Founder, Ultraspeaking | 2.05 | 19 |
| 190 | Timothy Davis Performance Marketing Lead, Shopify | 2.05 | 21 |
| 191 | Matthew Dicks Storyteller & Author, Storyworthy | 2.05 | 38 |
| 192 | Jag Duggal Former Chief Product Officer, Nubank | 2.04 | 24 |
| 193 | Todd Jackson Partner, First Round Capital | 2.04 | 27 |
| 194 | Tom Conrad CEO, Sonos | 2.04 | 26 |
| 195 | Jonathan Becker Founder & CEO, Thrive Digital | 2.04 | 28 |
| 196 | Roman Ugarte Head of Product, SpaceXAI | 2.04 | 49 |
| 197 | Elizabeth Stone Chief Product and Technology Officer, Netflix | 2.03 | 37 |
| 198 | Claire Vo Founder & CEO, ChatPRD | 2.03 | 60 |
| 199 | Mike Krieger Chief Product Officer, Anthropic | 2.03 | 34 |
| 200 | Tanguy Crusson Product Lead, Jira Product Discovery, Atlassian | 2.03 | 37 |
| 201 | Madhavan Ramanujam General Partner & Co-Founder, 49 Palms Ventures | 2.02 | 50 |
| 202 | Fiona Fung Engineering Leader, Anthropic | 2 | 24 |
| 203 | Aishwarya Reganti (Ash) Founder & CEO, LevelUp Labs | 2 | 22 |
| 204 | Alexander Embiricos Product Lead for Codex, OpenAI | 2 | 27 |
| 205 | Garrett Lord Co-founder & CEO, Handshake | 2 | 18 |
| 206 | Krithika Muthukumar Entrepreneur in Residence, Thrive Capital | 2 | 27 |
| 207 | Daniel Larea CPTO, monday.com | 2 | 14 |
| 208 | Michael Margolis UX Research Partner, GV | 2 | 17 |
| 209 | Phyl Terry Founder and CEO, Collaborative Gain | 2 | 21 |
| 210 | Paige Costello Head of AI, Asana | 2 | 15 |
| 211 | Paul Millerd Author & Founder, StrategyU | 2 | 20 |
| 212 | Lulu Cheng Meservey Founder and CEO, Rostra | 2 | 21 |
| 213 | Adam Fishman Partner & Executive in Residence, Reforge | 2 | 18 |
| 214 | Wes Kao Co-founder, Maven | 1.98 | 44 |
| 215 | Andrew Bosworth Chief Technology Officer, Meta | 1.97 | 29 |
| 216 | Sri Batchu Chief Marketing Officer, The RealReal | 1.97 | 36 |
| 217 | Jessica Fain VP of Product, Webflow | 1.96 | 23 |
| 218 | Dr. Becky Kennedy Founder & CEO, Good Inside | 1.96 | 28 |
| 219 | Eric Simons Co-Founder & CEO, StackBlitz | 1.96 | 26 |
| 220 | Eeke de Milliano Head of Global Product, Stripe | 1.96 | 28 |
| 221 | Naomi Ionita Board Partner, Menlo Ventures | 1.96 | 24 |
| 222 | Adriel Frederick VP of Product Management, Reddit | 1.96 | 23 |
| 223 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser COO, Vercel | 1.95 | 38 |
| 224 | Julie Zhuo Co-Founder, Sundial | 1.95 | 44 |
| 225 | Nick Turley Head of ChatGPT, OpenAI | 1.95 | 41 |
| 226 | Jay Baxter Senior Staff ML Engineer, X | 1.95 | 20 |
| 227 | Yuhki Yamashita Chief Product Officer, Figma | 1.95 | 21 |
| 228 | Raz Herzberg CMO & VP Product Strategy, Wiz | 1.95 | 20 |
| 229 | Petra Wille Independent Product Leadership Coach | 1.95 | 21 |
| 230 | Lauren Ipsen Talent Partner, Decibel | 1.95 | 19 |
| 231 | Graham Weaver Founder & CEO, Alpine Investors | 1.94 | 16 |
| 232 | Elan Reshef Co-founder & CPO, Gong | 1.94 | 18 |
| 233 | Jessica Hische Lettering Artist & Author, Jessica Hische Inc. | 1.94 | 16 |
| 234 | Itamar Gilad Product Coach & Author, Itamar Gilad Consulting | 1.94 | 17 |
| 235 | Jason Shah Product Leader, Advisor, and Investor | 1.94 | 16 |
| 236 | Bill Carr Co-Founder, Working Backwards LLC | 1.93 | 28 |
| 237 | Jason Droege CEO, Scale AI | 1.92 | 25 |
| 238 | John Zeratsky Co-Founder and General Partner, Character Capital | 1.92 | 12 |
| 239 | Ebi Atawodi Director of Product, YouTube | 1.92 | 24 |
| 240 | Kenneth Berger Executive Coach and Founder, Kenneth Berger Coaching | 1.92 | 24 |
| 241 | Rachel Lockett Founder & Executive Coach, Lockett Coaching | 1.91 | 11 |
| 242 | Naomi Gleit Head of Product, Meta | 1.91 | 23 |
| 243 | Sachin Monga Co-Founder, Porches | 1.9 | 10 |
| 244 | Adam Grenier Founder & Applied AI Researcher, AIMatey | 1.9 | 20 |
| 245 | Ryan Hoover Founder and General Partner, Weekend Fund | 1.9 | 29 |
| 246 | Claire Hughes Johnson Corporate Officer and Advisor, Stripe | 1.89 | 19 |
| 247 | Zoelle Egner Founding Operator, Coalition Operators | 1.89 | 27 |
| 248 | Arielle Jackson Marketer in Residence, First Round Capital | 1.89 | 27 |
| 249 | Keith Coleman VP of Product, X | 1.88 | 32 |
| 250 | Sean Ellis Author, Hacking Growth | 1.88 | 24 |
| 251 | Noah Desai Weiss Chief Product Officer, Slack | 1.88 | 25 |
| 252 | Barbra Gago Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, Lattice | 1.88 | 16 |
| 253 | Ayo Omojola Founder & CEO, Substrate | 1.87 | 15 |
| 254 | Crystal Widjaja Co-Founder, Generation Girl | 1.87 | 23 |
| 255 | Chris Miller VP of Product, HubSpot | 1.86 | 22 |
| 256 | Gergely Orosz Author, The Pragmatic Engineer | 1.86 | 21 |
| 257 | Ryan J. Salva VP of Product, GitHub | 1.86 | 21 |
| 258 | Anneka Gupta Chief Product Officer, Rubrik | 1.85 | 13 |
| 259 | Benjamin Lauzier Co-founder & CEO, Nurra | 1.85 | 27 |
| 260 | Kevin Aluwi Venture Partner, Lightspeed | 1.85 | 20 |
| 261 | Fareed Mosavat Chief Development Officer, Reforge | 1.85 | 13 |
| 262 | Jackson Shuttleworth Group Product Manager, Duolingo | 1.84 | 32 |
| 263 | Heidi Helfand Consultant, Coach, and Author, Heidi Helfand Consulting | 1.83 | 18 |
| 264 | Jason Feifer Editor-in-Chief, Entrepreneur Magazine | 1.83 | 29 |
| 265 | Melissa Tan Startup Advisor & Angel Investor | 1.83 | 18 |
| 266 | Keith Yandell Chief Business Officer, DoorDash | 1.83 | 29 |
| 267 | Mihika Kapoor Product Manager, Figma | 1.82 | 33 |
| 268 | Julia Schottenstein COO, LangChain | 1.82 | 17 |
| 269 | Bangaly Kaba Director of Product Management, YouTube | 1.81 | 26 |
| 270 | Ronny Kohavi Consultant and Advisor | 1.8 | 30 |
| 271 | Deb Liu Co-Founder, Ember AI | 1.79 | 14 |
| 272 | Hila Qu Executive in Residence, Reforge | 1.79 | 29 |
| 273 | Ada Chen Rekhi Co-Founder, Notejoy | 1.79 | 14 |
| 274 | Ian McAllister Senior Director of Product for Vehicles, Uber | 1.79 | 14 |
| 275 | Kristen Berman CEO & Co-founder, Irrational Labs | 1.78 | 18 |
| 276 | David DeSanto Chief Executive Officer, Anaconda | 1.77 | 26 |
| 277 | Chip Conley Co-founder & CEO, Modern Elder Academy | 1.76 | 21 |
| 278 | Carilu Dietrich Growth Advisor | 1.76 | 21 |
| 279 | Guillermo Rauch Founder & CEO, Vercel | 1.75 | 40 |
| 280 | Shweta Shrivastava Senior Director of Product Management, Waymo | 1.75 | 12 |
| 281 | Katie Dill Head of Design, Stripe | 1.74 | 27 |
| 282 | Nilan Peiris Chief Product Officer, Wise | 1.74 | 27 |
| 283 | Nancy Duarte CEO, Duarte, Inc. | 1.74 | 19 |
| 284 | Ivan Zhao Co-founder & CEO, Notion | 1.73 | 33 |
| 285 | Sebastian Barrios SVP of Engineering, Roblox | 1.71 | 17 |
| 286 | Jonny Miller Founder, Nervous System Mastery | 1.71 | 28 |
| 287 | Maya Prohovnik VP of Podcast Product, Spotify | 1.71 | 21 |
| 288 | Georgiana Laudi (Gia) Co-founder & CEO, Forget The Funnel | 1.71 | 14 |
| 289 | Ben Williams Founder & CEO, DevTune.ai | 1.7 | 27 |
| 290 | Dianne Penn Head of Product, Anthropic | 1.69 | 26 |
| 291 | Albert Cheng Chief Growth Officer, Chess.com | 1.69 | 32 |
| 292 | Andy Johns Founder and Writer, Clues.life | 1.69 | 16 |
| 293 | Jeff Weinstein Product Lead, Stripe | 1.68 | 56 |
| 294 | Jessica Lachs VP of Analytics & Data Science, DoorDash | 1.68 | 28 |
| 295 | Camille Ricketts Partner & Head of Marketing, XYZ Venture Capital | 1.68 | 22 |
| 296 | Susan Cain Author & Founder, Quiet Revolution | 1.67 | 18 |
| 297 | Grant Lee Co-founder, Gamma | 1.64 | 28 |
| 298 | Robby Stein VP of Product, Google Search, Google | 1.64 | 28 |
| 299 | Sachin Kansal Chief Product Officer, Uber | 1.64 | 22 |
| 300 | Varun Parmar SVP & GM, Adobe | 1.62 | 24 |
| 301 | Hari Srinivasan Chief Product Officer, LinkedIn | 1.6 | 15 |
| 302 | Jules Walter Product Lead, Google Gemini | 1.59 | 22 |
| 303 | Megan Cook Head of Product, Jira, Atlassian | 1.58 | 12 |
| 304 | Alex Hardiman Chief Product Officer, The New York Times | 1.57 | 21 |
| 305 | Cameron Adams Co-founder & CPO, Canva | 1.55 | 22 |
| 306 | Matt Abrahams Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business | 1.55 | 22 |
| 307 | Meltem Kuran Berkowitz Head of Growth, Deel | 1.55 | 38 |
| 308 | Tim Holley Chief Product Officer, MyFitnessPal | 1.53 | 15 |
| 309 | Chris Hutchins Host, All the Hacks | 1.53 | 15 |
| 310 | Gina Gotthilf Co-Founder and CMO, Outsmart | 1.52 | 21 |
| 311 | Melanie Perkins Co-Founder & CEO, Canva | 1.5 | 28 |
| 312 | Nesrine Changuel Product Coach and Author | 1.5 | 10 |
| 313 | Brian Tolkin Head of Merchant Product, DoorDash | 1.47 | 15 |
| 314 | Claire Butler Senior Director of Marketing, Figma | 1.4 | 20 |
| 315 | Annie Pearl Corporate Vice President, Microsoft | 1.39 | 18 |
| 316 | David Singleton Co-founder & CEO, Dreamer | 1.38 | 26 |
| 317 | Upasna Gautam Head of Product & AI Studio, American Journalism Project | 1.25 | 12 |
| 318 | Raiza Martin Co-Founder and CEO, Huxe | 1.21 | 14 |
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 310 companies, funds and products with at least one bearish claim on the record.
Highest debate potential, by year
2026
Rabois: I refuse to let colleagues talk to consumer customers
“I refuse to allow colleagues of mine to talk to customers.”
Rabois: Criticizing employees publicly optimizes for the system over the individual
“When you give people feedback negative individually, you're optimizing for the atomic unit, not the system. The reason why to do it in public is it's more important for all the colleagues to understand that there's an issue it's being addressed.”
2025
MacInnis: Hopes competitor Deel goes to zero due to its 'criminal behavior'
“I was one of the first investors in Deal, if you've heard of them. I, you know, I was able to exit, I was able to exit that position, and then, you know, hopefully that company's going to zero with their criminal behavior, but whatever.”