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.
Average debate potential by speaker
All 348 guests with 5 or more scored statements, ranked. 42 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 | Ryan Greenblatt Chief Scientist, Redwood Research | 3.27 | 30 |
| 2 | Chris Lynch Executive Chairman & CEO, AtScale | 3.25 | 8 |
| 3 | Robbie Allen Managing Director, Automated Consulting Group | 3.2 | 5 |
| 4 | Stefan Groschupf Founder and CEO, Automation Hero | 3.14 | 7 |
| 5 | Tim Dettmers Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University | 3.1 | 10 |
| 6 | Gary Marcus Founder & Executive Chairman, Robust AI | 3.03 | 38 |
| 7 | Jeremy Howard Co-Founder, Answer.AI | 3 | 24 |
| 8 | Sam Anthony Board Director, The Many Brains Project | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | Pedro Domingos Professor Emeritus, University of Washington | 3 | 14 |
| 10 | Douwe Kiela Research Scientist Director, Google DeepMind | 2.93 | 15 |
| 11 | Misha Laskin Co-founder & CEO, Reflection AI | 2.88 | 24 |
| 12 | Thomas Wolf Co-founder & CSO, Hugging Face | 2.87 | 23 |
| 13 | Bradford Cross Founder & CEO, Alpha City | 2.82 | 11 |
| 14 | Mike Driscoll Co-founder and CEO, Rill Data | 2.8 | 10 |
| 15 | Benn Stancil Field CTO, ThoughtSpot | 2.75 | 20 |
| 16 | Mike Palmer CEO, Sigma Computing | 2.72 | 18 |
| 17 | Shreya Rajpal Co-founder & CEO, Guardrails AI | 2.71 | 7 |
| 18 | Aravind Srinivas Co-founder & CEO, Perplexity AI | 2.71 | 21 |
| 19 | Ahmed Elsamadisi Founder & CEO, Narrator | 2.71 | 17 |
| 20 | Alex Ratner Co-Founder & CEO, Snorkel AI | 2.7 | 10 |
| 21 | Julian Schrittwieser AI Researcher, Anthropic | 2.67 | 27 |
| 22 | Jeremy Kahn AI Editor, Fortune Magazine | 2.67 | 21 |
| 23 | Pavel Izmailov Assistant Professor, NYU and Researcher, Anthropic | 2.64 | 22 |
| 24 | Matt Ocko Co-Managing Partner & Co-Founder, DCVC | 2.64 | 11 |
| 25 | Andrew Feldman Co-Founder and CEO, Cerebras Systems | 2.62 | 16 |
| 26 | George Sivulka Founder & CEO, Hebbia | 2.61 | 41 |
| 27 | Benedict Evans Independent Technology Analyst | 2.6 | 82 |
| 28 | Raza Habib Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic | 2.6 | 5 |
| 29 | Ori Goshen Co-Founder & Co-CEO, AI21 Labs | 2.6 | 10 |
| 30 | Peter Fenton General Partner, Benchmark | 2.6 | 25 |
| 31 | Dylan Patel Founder & Chief Analyst, SemiAnalysis | 2.58 | 66 |
| 32 | Martin Casado General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.57 | 21 |
| 33 | John Rauser Lead Data Scientist, Pinterest | 2.57 | 7 |
| 34 | Mike Dauber Investor, Amplify Partners | 2.56 | 16 |
| 35 | Jeremy Achin General Partner, Cortical Ventures | 2.56 | 9 |
| 36 | Eric (MemSQL) Founder & CEO, Pomelo | 2.56 | 9 |
| 37 | David Cancel Co-founder, Drift | 2.55 | 11 |
| 38 | Peter Wang Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer, Anaconda | 2.55 | 11 |
| 39 | William Falcon Founder & CEO, Lightning AI | 2.53 | 15 |
| 40 | Nathan Lambert Founder, Interconnects AI | 2.52 | 23 |
| 41 | Francois Chollet Co-Founder, Ndea | 2.5 | 14 |
| 42 | Sarah Catanzaro General Partner, Amplify Partners | 2.5 | 18 |
| 43 | Stan Christiaens Founder & CTO, Collibra | 2.5 | 14 |
| 44 | Eiso Kant Co-Founder & CTO, Poolside | 2.49 | 55 |
| 45 | Aidan Gomez Co-founder & CEO, Cohere | 2.48 | 21 |
| 46 | Sharon Zhou VP of AI, AMD | 2.48 | 33 |
| 47 | Stephen Balaban Co-Founder & CTO, Lambda | 2.48 | 29 |
| 48 | Neil Zeghidour Co-founder & CEO, Gradium AI | 2.45 | 38 |
| 49 | Mike Volpi General Partner, Hanabi Capital | 2.45 | 20 |
| 50 | Ali Ghodsi Founder & CEO, Databricks | 2.44 | 18 |
| 51 | Yaniv Altshuler Founder & CEO, Alphabiome | 2.44 | 9 |
| 52 | Oren Falkowitz Co-founder & CEO, Area 2 Farms | 2.44 | 9 |
| 53 | Matthew Prince Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare | 2.44 | 27 |
| 54 | Arvind Jain Co-founder & CEO, Glean | 2.43 | 7 |
| 55 | Carolyn Mooney Co-Founder & CEO, Nextmv | 2.43 | 7 |
| 56 | Nick Schrock Founder and CTO, Dagster Labs | 2.43 | 7 |
| 57 | Dan Fu Assistant Professor, UC San Diego | 2.42 | 12 |
| 58 | Jerry Tworek CEO & Co-founder, Core Automation | 2.42 | 36 |
| 59 | Nathan Benaich Founder & General Partner, Air Street Capital | 2.41 | 56 |
| 60 | Richard Socher Founder & CEO, You.com | 2.41 | 83 |
| 61 | Amr Awadallah CEO and Co-Founder, Vectara | 2.41 | 27 |
| 62 | Roger Ehrenberg Founder & Managing Partner, Eberg Capital | 2.41 | 22 |
| 63 | Carly Taylor Field CTO for Gaming, Databricks | 2.4 | 10 |
| 64 | Claudia Perlich Managing Director, Two Sigma | 2.4 | 5 |
| 65 | Zico Kolter Professor and Department Head, Carnegie Mellon University | 2.4 | 35 |
| 66 | Sholto Douglas AI Researcher, Anthropic | 2.39 | 49 |
| 67 | Azeem Azhar Founder, Exponential View | 2.39 | 31 |
| 68 | Satyen Sangani CEO and Co-Founder, Alation | 2.38 | 8 |
| 69 | Christopher Nguyen Co-Founder and CEO, Aitomatic | 2.38 | 8 |
| 70 | Arnab Gupta CEO, Opera Solutions | 2.38 | 8 |
| 71 | Mostafa Dehghani Research Scientist, Google DeepMind | 2.37 | 27 |
| 72 | Mitch Trojanowski Co-Founder and CEO, Basis | 2.37 | 38 |
| 73 | Sebastian Raschka | 2.36 | 25 |
| 74 | Nick Mehta Board Member & Special Advisor, Gainsight | 2.36 | 11 |
| 75 | May Habib Co-Founder, Writer | 2.33 | 12 |
| 76 | Mathew Lodge CEO, Diffblue | 2.33 | 12 |
| 77 | Zhamak Dehghani Founder & CEO, Nextdata | 2.33 | 9 |
| 78 | Arjun Narayan Venture Partner, Amplify Partners | 2.33 | 9 |
| 79 | Joe Lubin Founder and CEO, Consensys | 2.33 | 15 |
| 80 | Gaurav Misra Co-founder & CEO, Captions | 2.32 | 38 |
| 81 | Evan Kaplan CEO, InfluxData | 2.3 | 10 |
| 82 | Aaron Levie Co-Founder & CEO, Box | 2.3 | 46 |
| 83 | Raj De Datta Co-Founder and CEO, Bloomreach | 2.3 | 20 |
| 84 | Todd Papaioannou Partner, Bain & Company | 2.3 | 10 |
| 85 | Stanislas Polu Co-founder, Dust | 2.29 | 14 |
| 86 | Ben Horowitz Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2.29 | 17 |
| 87 | Ajay Kulkarni Co-founder & CEO, Timescale | 2.29 | 14 |
| 88 | Dan Roberts Research Lead, OpenAI | 2.29 | 17 |
| 89 | Felix Rieseberg Engineering Lead, Anthropic | 2.28 | 32 |
| 90 | DeVaris Brown CEO & Co-Founder, Meroxa | 2.27 | 11 |
| 91 | Nick Rockwell Chief Information Officer, Braze | 2.27 | 11 |
| 92 | Sajith Wickramasekara Co-founder & CEO, Benchling | 2.27 | 11 |
| 93 | Yann Dubois Research Scientist, OpenAI | 2.26 | 42 |
| 94 | Scott Belsky Partner, A24 | 2.25 | 12 |
| 95 | Alex Rinke Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Celonis | 2.25 | 20 |
| 96 | Harry Glaser Founder & CEO, Periscope Data customer/vendor platform context note: Periscope Data context applies directly: Founder & CEO, Periscope Data | 2.25 | 12 |
| 97 | Jonathan Levin CEO & Co-Founder, Chainalysis | 2.25 | 8 |
| 98 | Fred Wilson Partner & Co-founder, Union Square Ventures | 2.25 | 20 |
| 99 | Erik Bernhardsson Founder and CEO, Modal Labs | 2.24 | 25 |
| 100 | Amjad Masad Co-founder & CEO, Replit | 2.23 | 31 |
| 101 | Howie Liu Co-Founder & CEO, Airtable | 2.23 | 26 |
| 102 | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Founder, SurrealDB | 2.23 | 22 |
| 103 | Olivier Pomel Co-Founder & CEO, Datadog | 2.23 | 47 |
| 104 | Mike Freedman Co-founder & CTO, Timescale | 2.22 | 9 |
| 105 | Jerome Pesenti CTO, Campus | 2.22 | 37 |
| 106 | Auren Hoffman General Partner, Flex Capital | 2.22 | 18 |
| 107 | Neha Narkhede Co-founder & CEO, Oscilar | 2.22 | 9 |
| 108 | Sridhar Ramaswamy CEO, Snowflake | 2.21 | 33 |
| 109 | Chris Dixon Founder & Managing Partner, a16z crypto | 2.21 | 28 |
| 110 | Rebecca Lynn Managing Director, Canvas Prime | 2.21 | 14 |
| 111 | Kedro Product Manager Senior Director of Product Management, Astronomer | 2.2 | 5 |
| 112 | David Glueck Data Science & Governance, Peloton Interactive | 2.2 | 10 |
| 113 | Jake Klamka Angel Investor | 2.2 | 5 |
| 114 | Peter Semmelhack Founder & CEO, Bug Labs | 2.2 | 5 |
| 115 | Florian Douetteau Co-Founder & CEO, Dataiku | 2.19 | 70 |
| 116 | Dan Scholnick Managing Partner, Four Rivers Group | 2.19 | 16 |
| 117 | Sachin Katti VP of Compute Strategy, OpenAI | 2.19 | 21 |
| 118 | Łukasz Kaiser Research Scientist, OpenAI | 2.18 | 39 |
| 119 | Thomas Reardon Founder & CEO, CTRL-Labs | 2.18 | 22 |
| 120 | Yann LeCun Executive Chairman, AMI Labs | 2.18 | 17 |
| 121 | Ivan Burazin CEO & Co-Founder, Daytona | 2.18 | 22 |
| 122 | Anthony Deighton CEO, Tamr | 2.17 | 18 |
| 123 | Drew (InfoChimps) Co-founder & CSO, Unchained | 2.17 | 6 |
| 124 | Chip Huyen Author & Technologist, Tep Studio | 2.16 | 31 |
| 125 | Munjal Shah Co-founder and CEO, Hippocratic AI | 2.16 | 19 |
| 126 | Aman Kabeer Investor, FirstMark Capital | 2.15 | 13 |
| 127 | Daniel Dines Founder & CEO, UiPath | 2.15 | 34 |
| 128 | Felix Van de Maele Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra | 2.15 | 13 |
| 129 | Ash Fontana Special Advisor, Zetta Venture Partners | 2.15 | 13 |
| 130 | Shant Hovsepian CTO, Arcadia Data | 2.15 | 13 |
| 131 | Bryan Catanzaro VP of Applied Deep Learning Research, NVIDIA | 2.15 | 27 |
| 132 | Sebastien Bourgeau AI Research Lead, Google DeepMind | 2.14 | 35 |
| 133 | Jordan Tigani Co-Founder and CEO, MotherDuck | 2.14 | 14 |
| 134 | Des Traynor Co-Founder and CSO, Intercom | 2.14 | 29 |
| 135 | Tristan Handy Founder & CEO, dbt Labs | 2.14 | 51 |
| 136 | Serkan Piantino Founder & CEO, Spell | 2.14 | 7 |
| 137 | Daniel Chait Co-founder & CEO, Greenhouse Software | 2.14 | 7 |
| 138 | Jean Sini General Partner, Partech | 2.14 | 7 |
| 139 | Sandy Steier Co-founder & Former CEO, 1010data | 2.14 | 7 |
| 140 | Corinna Hong Founder & CEO, Axiom | 2.13 | 31 |
| 141 | Chris Pedregal Co-Founder & CEO, Granola | 2.13 | 38 |
| 142 | Guy Podjarny Founder & CEO, Tessl | 2.13 | 15 |
| 143 | Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) Founder & Lead Consultant, Seattle Data Guy | 2.12 | 24 |
| 144 | Tomasz Tunguz Founder & General Partner, Theory Ventures | 2.12 | 43 |
| 145 | Bindu Reddy Founder & CEO, Abacus.AI | 2.12 | 8 |
| 146 | Ben Vigoda Founder & CEO, Product Genius AI | 2.12 | 8 |
| 147 | Matt Ober General Partner, Social Leverage | 2.12 | 17 |
| 148 | Liz Maida Co-Founder & CEO, Fathom | 2.12 | 8 |
| 149 | Rachel Schutt Co-Head of AI Labs, BlackRock | 2.12 | 8 |
| 150 | Victor Riparbelli Co-Founder & CEO, Synthesia | 2.1 | 31 |
| 151 | Kirill Sheynkman Senior Managing Director, RTP Ventures | 2.1 | 10 |
| 152 | Justin Borgman Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Starburst | 2.09 | 45 |
| 153 | Boris Cherny Head of Claude Code, Anthropic | 2.08 | 25 |
| 154 | Gustavo Sapoznik Founder and CEO, ASAPP aimed at contact centers. He spoke at Data Driven NYC about the challenges of the market and developing AI technology designed to assist humans. | 2.08 | 13 |
| 155 | Milos Rusic CEO & Co-Founder, deepset AI | 2.08 | 13 |
| 156 | Mark Grover Co-founder & CEO, Stemma | 2.08 | 12 |
| 157 | Adam Wenchel Co-Founder and CEO, Arthur AI | 2.08 | 12 |
| 158 | Hanna Wallach Researcher, Microsoft Research covering Big Data and data-driven products. She presented her work during the January 2015 edition of Data Driven NYC. | 2.08 | 13 |
| 159 | Dillon Erb Co-founder & CEO, Autonomous Technologies Group | 2.07 | 14 |
| 160 | Dennis Mortensen Founder & CEO, LaunchBrightly | 2.07 | 15 |
| 161 | Dileep George Head of AI, Astera Institute | 2.07 | 15 |
| 162 | Mike Olson Co-Founder & Chairman, Cloudera | 2.07 | 14 |
| 163 | Dwight Merriman CEO & Co-Founder, 10Gen | 2.07 | 14 |
| 164 | Timothée LeCroix Co-Founder & CTO, Mistral AI | 2.06 | 35 |
| 165 | David Walsher Partner, FirstMark | 2.06 | 16 |
| 166 | Akilesh Bapu Head of AI Product Development, Hightouch | 2.06 | 16 |
| 167 | Mike Murchison Co-Founder & CEO, Ada | 2.05 | 44 |
| 168 | Chris Wiggins Associate Professor, Columbia University | 2.05 | 20 |
| 169 | Spencer Kimball Co-Founder & CEO, Cockroach Labs | 2.05 | 38 |
| 170 | Emil Eifrem Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j | 2.05 | 20 |
| 171 | Brandon Duderstadt CEO & Co-Founder, Nomic | 2 | 13 |
| 172 | Jeff Huber Co-founder & CEO, Chroma | 2 | 16 |
| 173 | Tasso Argyros VP of Engineering, Databricks | 2 | 23 |
| 174 | Edo Liberty Founder & Chief Scientist, Pinecone | 2 | 10 |
| 175 | Gideon Mann Head of ML, Bloomberg LP leading AI infrastructure and research initiatives. He previously served as Head of Data Science at the company, presenting on Bloomberg's Data for Good efforts at Data Driven NYC. | 2 | 12 |
| 176 | Barr Moses Co-Founder & CEO, Monte Carlo | 2 | 10 |
| 177 | Jeremiah Lowin Founder & CEO, Prefect | 2 | 12 |
| 178 | George Fraser Co-founder & CEO, Fivetran | 2 | 18 |
| 179 | Nate Stewart CEO, Materialize | 2 | 16 |
| 180 | Natalie Evans-Harris State Chief Data Officer, State of Maryland | 2 | 7 |
| 181 | George Davis Director of Product, HubSpot | 2 | 19 |
| 182 | Omar Tawakol Co-founder & CEO, Rembrand | 2 | 10 |
| 183 | Stefan Karpinski Co-founder and CPO, JuliaHub | 2 | 5 |
| 184 | Sean Kandel Co-founder & Former CTO, Trifacta | 2 | 8 |
| 185 | Frida Polli Founder, Rosalind Ventures | 2 | 15 |
| 186 | Nick (Domino Data Lab) Co-Founder, President & CPO, Domino Data Lab | 2 | 9 |
| 187 | Anand Sanwal Executive Chair & Co-Founder, CB Insights | 2 | 14 |
| 188 | Prakash Nanduri Co-founder & Former CEO, Paxata | 2 | 8 |
| 189 | Amir Orad CEO, Kraken Technologies | 2 | 9 |
| 190 | Alexis Le-Quoc Co-Founder and CTO, Datadog | 2 | 8 |
| 191 | Mike Abbott Partner, Kleiner Perkins | 2 | 14 |
| 192 | Ami Daniel Co-Founder and CEO, Windward | 2 | 13 |
| 193 | Tim Hwang | 2 | 5 |
| 194 | Shawn Budde Co-founder & General Partner, Ensemblex | 2 | 8 |
| 195 | Dane Atkinson Founder and CEO, Odeko | 2 | 5 |
| 196 | Joe Reisinger AI Researcher, Adobe | 2 | 7 |
| 197 | Hjalmar Gislason (Halmar) Founder and CEO, GRID | 2 | 5 |
| 198 | Cristobal Valenzuela Co-founder & CEO, Runway | 1.98 | 62 |
| 199 | Clement Delangue Founder & CEO, Hugging Face | 1.98 | 46 |
| 200 | Emi Gal Founder & CEO, Ezra | 1.97 | 29 |
| 201 | Guillermo Rauch Founder & CEO, Vercel | 1.96 | 46 |
| 202 | Bob Muglia Investor & Board Director | 1.96 | 24 |
| 203 | Harrison Chase Co-founder & CEO, LangChain | 1.96 | 23 |
| 204 | Bob van Luijt Co-founder & CEO, Weaviate | 1.94 | 16 |
| 205 | Renen Hallak Founder & CEO, VAST Data | 1.93 | 29 |
| 206 | Nancy Xu CEO & Founder, Moonhub AI | 1.93 | 14 |
| 207 | Thomas Dohmke Founder and CEO, Entire | 1.92 | 24 |
| 208 | Eric Glyman Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Ramp | 1.92 | 26 |
| 209 | Wes McKinney Principal Architect, Posit PBC | 1.92 | 12 |
| 210 | Kuang Chen Founder and CEO, Captricity | 1.92 | 12 |
| 211 | Lukas Biewald Co-founder & CEO, Weights & Biases | 1.9 | 21 |
| 212 | Raymie Stata Technical Advisor, Airbnb | 1.9 | 10 |
| 213 | Aaron Skonnard Co-founder & Former CEO, Pluralsight | 1.9 | 10 |
| 214 | Allon Bloch Co-Founder and CEO, K Health | 1.89 | 9 |
| 215 | Mark Kaganovich Co-Founder & CEO, Tracer Biotechnologies | 1.89 | 9 |
| 216 | Ron Gutman Founder & CEO, HealthTap | 1.89 | 9 |
| 217 | Amanda Kahlow Founder & CEO, 1mind | 1.89 | 18 |
| 218 | Alexander Bisignano Biotech Founder & Investor | 1.89 | 9 |
| 219 | Viral Shah Co-Founder and CEO, JuliaHub | 1.88 | 8 |
| 220 | Rick Smolan CEO & Co-Founder, Against All Odds Productions | 1.88 | 8 |
| 221 | Hilary Mason Co-founder and CEO, Hidden Door | 1.87 | 38 |
| 222 | Eleonore Crespo Co-Founder, Pigment | 1.86 | 21 |
| 223 | Melanie Kambadur Senior Engineering Manager, Meta | 1.86 | 7 |
| 224 | Anant Bhardwaj Founder & CEO, Instabase | 1.86 | 7 |
| 225 | Ben Johnson Founder, Tero Edge | 1.86 | 7 |
| 226 | Duncan McCall Strategic Advisor, Precisely | 1.86 | 7 |
| 227 | Nitay Joffe Operating Partner, Team8 | 1.86 | 7 |
| 228 | David Luan Co-Founder, Dextro | 1.86 | 14 |
| 229 | Brendan Humphreys Advisor, Canva | 1.85 | 39 |
| 230 | Dev Ittycheria Former President & CEO, MongoDB | 1.85 | 13 |
| 231 | Todd Mostak Founder & CEO, MapD | 1.85 | 13 |
| 232 | Shinji Kim Founder & CEO, Select Star | 1.83 | 6 |
| 233 | Kanjun Qiu Co-Founder and CEO, Imbue | 1.83 | 12 |
| 234 | Daniel Sternberg Head of Data, Notion_bio_placeholder | 1.83 | 12 |
| 235 | Thomas Walle Founder & CEO, Unacast | 1.83 | 12 |
| 236 | Ryan Smith Executive Chairman & Co-Founder, Qualtrics | 1.83 | 12 |
| 237 | Stephen Purpura Founder, LOA Solutions Inc. | 1.83 | 6 |
| 238 | Alex Hawkinson Founder & CEO, BrightAI | 1.83 | 6 |
| 239 | Gary Little President & CEO, Foursquare | 1.82 | 11 |
| 240 | Mark Johnson Founder and CEO, Descartes Labs | 1.82 | 11 |
| 241 | Alex Dean Co-Founder and CEO, Snowplow | 1.8 | 10 |
| 242 | Julien Le Dem Principal Engineer, Datadog | 1.8 | 5 |
| 243 | Apoorv Agarwal Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University | 1.8 | 10 |
| 244 | Drew Silverstein President & Head of AI Strategy, SourceAudio | 1.8 | 5 |
| 245 | Ashish Thusoo Founder and CEO, CurieTech AI | 1.8 | 15 |
| 246 | Liz Crawford CPTO, Flare | 1.8 | 10 |
| 247 | Corey Pearson Co-founder, Custora | 1.8 | 5 |
| 248 | Joe Lonsdale Founder & Managing Partner, 8VC | 1.8 | 20 |
| 249 | Richard Craib Founder & CEO, Numerai | 1.79 | 19 |
| 250 | Sean Gourley Partner, Machine Capital | 1.79 | 33 |
| 251 | Jeff Glueck Founder & CEO, Salvo Health | 1.79 | 14 |
| 252 | Ion Stoica Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley | 1.79 | 14 |
| 253 | M.C. Srivas Former CTO & Co-founder, MapR | 1.79 | 19 |
| 254 | Kieran Snyder VP of Product, AI, Microsoft | 1.78 | 9 |
| 255 | Sanjit Biswas Co-Founder and CEO, Samsara | 1.78 | 18 |
| 256 | Hicham Oudghiri Founder & CEO, Enigma | 1.77 | 22 |
| 257 | Bob Moore Co-Founder & CEO, Crossbeam | 1.76 | 25 |
| 258 | Michael James Co-Founder & Chief Architect, Cerebras Systems | 1.76 | 21 |
| 259 | Abe Gong Founder & CEO, Superconductive | 1.75 | 12 |
| 260 | Prat Moghe CEO, Promethium | 1.75 | 8 |
| 261 | Louis DiModugno Global Chief Data Officer, Verisk | 1.75 | 8 |
| 262 | Vijay Subramanian Founder & CEO, Trace | 1.75 | 8 |
| 263 | Aaron Katz Co-Founder and CEO, ClickHouse | 1.74 | 42 |
| 264 | Renaud Laplanche Co-founder & CEO, Upgrade, Inc. | 1.73 | 15 |
| 265 | Rich Waldron Co-founder & CEO, Tray.ai | 1.71 | 7 |
| 266 | FJ Yang Co-Founder and CEO, Imply | 1.71 | 7 |
| 267 | Eliot Horowitz Founder & CEO, Viam | 1.71 | 17 |
| 268 | Mike Tuchen CEO, Talend | 1.7 | 10 |
| 269 | Antoine Bordes Chief Scientist, Helsing | 1.7 | 20 |
| 270 | Emily Glassberg Sands Head of Information, Stripe | 1.69 | 58 |
| 271 | Lin Qiao Co-Founder & CEO, Fireworks AI | 1.67 | 15 |
| 272 | Viraj Parekh Co-founder & Field CTO, Astronomer | 1.67 | 6 |
| 273 | Ben Uretsky Co-founder & Former CEO, DigitalOcean | 1.67 | 15 |
| 274 | Katrin Ribant Founder and CEO, Ask-Y | 1.67 | 6 |
| 275 | Evan Macmillan Co-Founder and CEO, Gridspace | 1.67 | 6 |
| 276 | Josh Bloom Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley | 1.67 | 12 |
| 277 | Chris Moody Partner, Foundry | 1.67 | 12 |
| 278 | Luca Soldaini Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI | 1.64 | 11 |
| 279 | Zachary Perret Co-founder & CEO, Plaid | 1.64 | 22 |
| 280 | Zach Weinberg Co-Founder & CEO, Curie.Bio | 1.64 | 22 |
| 281 | Morgan McGuire Independent Researcher & Advisor, Casual Effects | 1.62 | 16 |
| 282 | Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Co-Founders, SurrealDB | 1.62 | 8 |
| 283 | Paul Dix Founder & CTO, InfluxData | 1.62 | 21 |
| 284 | Solmaz Shahalizadeh AI Operating Partner, HGGC | 1.62 | 16 |
| 285 | Christine Hung Head of Data Solutions, Spotify | 1.6 | 10 |
| 286 | Parth Vasa Engineering Director, Meta | 1.6 | 10 |
| 287 | Itai Gurari VP of Research and Development, Fastcase | 1.6 | 10 |
| 288 | Mike Flowers Global Head of Data, AI, and Technology, K2 Integrity | 1.6 | 10 |
| 289 | Diego Oppenheimer Co-Founder, Guardrails AI | 1.58 | 12 |
| 290 | Ian Wong Co-Founder, Opendoor | 1.58 | 12 |
| 291 | Jeremy Stanley Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Anomalo | 1.58 | 12 |
| 292 | Jorge Gomez Sancha Co-Founder and CEO, Tinybird | 1.57 | 7 |
| 293 | Sarah Guo Founder & General Partner, Conviction | 1.57 | 21 |
| 294 | Amanda Stent Researcher, Bloomberg | 1.57 | 14 |
| 295 | Jake Porway Founder & Executive Director, DataKind | 1.57 | 14 |
| 296 | Scott Crouch Co-Founder and Chairman, Mark43 | 1.57 | 7 |
| 297 | Jesse St. Charles | 1.57 | 14 |
| 298 | Mayur Thakur Managing Director, Bank of America | 1.56 | 9 |
| 299 | Satya Ramachandran Director of Software Engineering, Intuit | 1.56 | 9 |
| 300 | Matthew Zeiler SVP, Research, Nebius | 1.56 | 9 |
| 301 | Amit Bendov Founder & CEO, Gong | 1.55 | 22 |
| 302 | Dylan Fox Founder & CEO, AssemblyAI | 1.54 | 13 |
| 303 | Ben Medlock Co-Founder & Former CTO, SwiftKey | 1.53 | 17 |
| 304 | Jack Hanlon AI Product Leader, Meta | 1.5 | 12 |
| 305 | Kurt Rohloff Co-Founder and CTO, Duality Technologies | 1.5 | 16 |
| 306 | Jason Tan Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Sift | 1.5 | 6 |
| 307 | Vaclav Petricek Chief Data Scientist, eHarmony Course/eHarmony | 1.5 | 12 |
| 308 | Noah Desai Weiss Chief Product Officer, Slack | 1.47 | 17 |
| 309 | Vance Loiselle CEO, Adeptia | 1.47 | 17 |
| 310 | Jack Berkowitz Chief Data Officer, Securiti | 1.46 | 24 |
| 311 | Howard Katzenberg Founder & CEO, Glean AI | 1.45 | 11 |
| 312 | Dave Burgess Head of Data Engineering, Pinterest | 1.43 | 14 |
| 313 | Tobi Knaup VP & GM of Cloud Native, Nutanix | 1.43 | 7 |
| 314 | Chris Volinsky | 1.43 | 14 |
| 315 | Jordy Leiser Co-Founder and CEO, Jump | 1.43 | 7 |
| 316 | Dr. Bob Sohval VP & Fellow, Data Science, SecurityScorecard | 1.4 | 10 |
| 317 | Sameer Maskey Founder & CEO, Fusemachines | 1.4 | 5 |
| 318 | Josh Green Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Novata | 1.4 | 5 |
| 319 | Jeremy Bronfman Founder & CEO, Lincoln Avenue Communities | 1.4 | 5 |
| 320 | Daniel Ramot Co-founder & CEO, Via | 1.38 | 8 |
| 321 | Noah Breslow CEO, OnDeck | 1.38 | 13 |
| 322 | Alok Gupta Head of Data Science & ML, DoorDash | 1.36 | 14 |
| 323 | Daniel Chia Senior Software Engineer, Google Spanner Grade Team Lead, Google Spanner Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead, Google Spanner | 1.33 | 15 |
| 324 | Praveen Murugesan VP of Engineering, Samsara | 1.33 | 9 |
| 325 | Scott Sorensen CTO, Ancestry.com | 1.31 | 13 |
| 326 | Dimitri Sirota Co-Founder and CEO, BigID | 1.3 | 10 |
| 327 | Blake Shaw Senior Director of Engineering, Reddit | 1.3 | 10 |
| 328 | Jerry Liu Co-founder & CEO, LlamaIndex | 1.29 | 14 |
| 329 | Ashley Kramer Chief Revenue Officer, ElevenLabs | 1.29 | 14 |
| 330 | Eric Colson Chief Algorithms Officer Emeritus, Stitch Fix | 1.29 | 7 |
| 331 | Ian White Founder, CEO & CTO, ChartHop | 1.29 | 7 |
| 332 | Joseph Essas Co-Founder and Managing Director, Ascend Healthcare | 1.27 | 15 |
| 333 | Nick Sinai Managing Director, Insight Partners | 1.27 | 11 |
| 334 | Jon Hyman Co-founder & CTO, Braze | 1.25 | 8 |
| 335 | Ali Dasdan CTO, Dropbox | 1.23 | 13 |
| 336 | Cristina Pieretti Head of Digital Content and Innovation, Moody's | 1.22 | 9 |
| 337 | Michael Karasick Former VP of Innovation, IBM Watson | 1.22 | 9 |
| 338 | Nadia Boujarwah Founder Partner, Founder Collective | 1.2 | 5 |
| 339 | Adam Laiacano Software Engineer, NVIDIA | 1.2 | 5 |
| 340 | Johnny Graettinger Co-Founder & CTO, Estuary | 1.17 | 6 |
| 341 | Javier de la Torre Founder & CSO, CARTO | 1.17 | 6 |
| 342 | Catherine Williams Chief Data Officer, Candid | 1.17 | 6 |
| 343 | Savin Goyal Co-Founder & CTO, Outerbounds | 1.14 | 7 |
| 344 | Michael Schmidt Chief Technology Officer, DataRobot | 1.14 | 7 |
| 345 | Jason Grout Scientific Software Developer, Bloomberg | 1.12 | 8 |
| 346 | Haoyuan Li Founder & CEO, Alluxio | 1.11 | 9 |
| 347 | Gilad Lotan SVP of AI and Data Science, BuzzFeed | 1.11 | 9 |
| 348 | Ramana Rao CTO, Livefyre | 1 | 12 |
The most bearish calls
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All 288 companies, funds and products with at least one bearish claim on the record.
| Company | Bearish statements | Of which 4–5 |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI company | 24 ↓ | 7 |
| Google company | 16 ↓ | 5 |
| Hadoop product | 15 ↓ | 2 |
| Facebook company | 12 ↓ | 2 |
| Snowflake company | 10 ↓ | 1 |
| ChatGPT product | 9 ↓ | — |
| Anthropic company | 9 ↓ | 2 |
| Amazon company | 9 ↓ | 3 |
| MongoDB company | 7 ↓ | — |
| Salesforce company | 6 ↓ | 1 |
| Microsoft company | 6 ↓ | 3 |
| IA Ventures fund | 6 ↓ | 1 |
| Tableau company | 5 ↓ | 1 |
| SQL product | 5 ↓ | 2 |
| NVIDIA company | 5 ↓ | 2 |
| GPT 4 product | 5 ↓ | 1 |
| Datadog company | 5 ↓ | — |
| Databricks company | 5 ↓ | 1 |
| Twitter company | 4 ↓ | — |
| Excel product | 4 ↓ | — |
| Claude product | 4 ↓ | — |
| Amazon Web Services company | 4 ↓ | — |
| Zetta Venture Partners fund | 3 ↓ | — |
| You.com company | 3 ↓ | 1 |
| Stripe company | 3 ↓ | — |
| Splunk company | 3 ↓ | 1 |
| Sigma Computing company | 3 ↓ | 3 |
| Reflection AI company | 3 ↓ | — |
| Redshift product | 3 ↓ | — |
| Reddit company | 3 ↓ | — |
| Poolside company | 3 ↓ | — |
| Microsoft Azure product | 3 ↓ | 1 |
| Looker company | 3 ↓ | 2 |
| Google DeepMind company | 3 ↓ | 1 |
| Gemini product | 3 ↓ | 2 |
| Dataiku company | 3 ↓ | — |
| Cloudera company | 3 ↓ | 1 |
| Basis company | 3 ↓ | 2 |
| Apple company | 3 ↓ | — |
| Apache Spark product | 3 ↓ | — |
| YouTube company | 2 ↓ | — |
| xAI company | 2 ↓ | 1 |
| Wikipedia company | 2 ↓ | — |
| WeWork company | 2 ↓ | — |
| Vectara company | 2 ↓ | — |
| Uber company | 2 ↓ | — |
| Theory Ventures fund | 2 ↓ | — |
| Tesla company | 2 ↓ | 1 |
| Spark product | 2 ↓ | — |
| Siri product | 2 ↓ | 1 |
| Runway company | 2 ↓ | — |
| Quest Diagnostics product | 2 ↓ | — |
| OpenAI Deep Research product | 2 ↓ | — |
| Mistral AI company | 2 ↓ | — |
| MemSQL company | 2 ↓ | — |
| Mark43 company | 2 ↓ | — |
| Labcorp company | 2 ↓ | — |
| IBM Watson product | 2 ↓ | — |
| Hugging Face company | 2 ↓ | — |
| Groq company | 2 ↓ | — |
| GPT 4.5 product | 2 ↓ | 1 |
| GPT 3 product | 2 ↓ | — |
| Google Cloud product | 2 ↓ | — |
| Google Analytics product | 2 ↓ | — |
| GitHub company | 2 ↓ | — |
| Foursquare company | 2 ↓ | — |
| FirstMark Capital fund | 2 ↓ | — |
| Elasticsearch product | 2 ↓ | — |
| DeepSeek company | 2 ↓ | — |
| Dbt product | 2 ↓ | 2 |
| Cloudflare company | 2 ↓ | 1 |
| Claude Code product | 2 ↓ | 1 |
| Cadre company | 2 ↓ | — |
| BigQuery product | 2 ↓ | — |
| Atlas Venture product | 2 ↓ | 1 |
| ASAPP company | 2 ↓ | — |
| Apache Iceberg product | 2 ↓ | 1 |
| Alexa product | 2 ↓ | — |
| Airtable company | 2 ↓ | — |
| Adobe company | 2 ↓ | — |
| Zynga company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Zapier company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Y Combinator fund | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| X.ai company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Wordtune product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Windsurf product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Whisper product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Weaviate company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Vicarious AI company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Vertica company | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Veri company | 1 ↓ | — |
| UpToDate product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Union Square Ventures fund | 1 ↓ | — |
| Unacast company | 1 ↓ | — |
| UiPath company | 1 ↓ | — |
| TSMC company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Trinity Ventures fund | 1 ↓ | — |
| Trifacta company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Together AI company | 1 ↓ | — |
| TikTok product | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| TensorFlow product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Talend company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Tabular company | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| SurrealDB company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Sumo Logic company | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Starburst Data company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Stack Overflow company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Spotify company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Spark Streaming product | 1 ↓ | — |
| SolveBio company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Snyk company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Sisense company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Siebel Systems company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Shopify company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Sensei product | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Segment company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Scale AI company | 1 ↓ | — |
| SAS Institute company | 1 ↓ | — |
| SAS company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Roomba product | 1 ↓ | — |
| RJMetrics company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Replit Agent product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Replit company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Ramp company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Quest III product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Qlik company | 1 ↓ | — |
| PyTorch product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Python product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Presto product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Postgres product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Plaid company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Pinecone company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Photoshop product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Personal Gmail product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Periscope Data company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Periscope product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Pegasystems company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Paperspace company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Pandas product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Oracle company | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Opus product | 1 ↓ | — |
| OpenClaw product | 1 ↓ | — |
| OpenAI Plugins Vision product | 1 ↓ | — |
| ODBC product | 1 ↓ | — |
| O1 product | 1 ↓ | — |
| NVIDIA T4 product | 1 ↓ | — |
| NVIDIA H100 product | 1 ↓ | — |
| NVIDIA A100 product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Northwestern Mutual company | 1 ↓ | — |
| The New York Times company | 1 ↓ | — |
| The New Republic company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Neuralink company | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Netflix company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Neeva company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Myers Briggs Type Indicator product | 1 ↓ | — |
| MuleSoft company | 1 ↓ | — |
| MotherDuck company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Moshi product | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Mode Analytics company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Modal company | 1 ↓ | — |
| MindAI company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Microsoft's Maya product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Microsoft Fabric product | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Microsoft Copilot product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Microsoft Bing product | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| METR company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Meta Smart Glasses product | 1 ↓ | — |
| MD Anderson Cancer Center company | 1 ↓ | — |
| MCP Server product | 1 ↓ | — |
| MapReduce product | 1 ↓ | — |
| MapD company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Mahoot product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Magic Pony company | 1 ↓ | — |
| LookML product | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Log4j product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Llama 3 product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Lisp product | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| LinkedIn company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Lexus company | 1 ↓ | — |
| LangChain company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Lamini company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Kubernetes product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Kdb+ product | 1 ↓ | — |
| K Health company | 1 ↓ | — |
| JVM product | 1 ↓ | — |
| JupyterLab product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Judicata company | 1 ↓ | — |
| JPMorgan Chase company | 1 ↓ | — |
| JDBC product | 1 ↓ | — |
| iPhone product | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| InfluxDB product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Inflection AI company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Index Ventures fund | 1 ↓ | — |
| Imply company | 1 ↓ | — |
| IBM company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Huawei company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Hortonworks company | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Hebbia company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Hadapt company | 1 ↓ | — |
| H200 product | 1 ↓ | — |
| H20 Chip product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Granola company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Gradium AI company | 1 ↓ | — |
| GPT Six product | 1 ↓ | — |
| GPT II product | 1 ↓ | — |
| GPT 5.5 Pro product | 1 ↓ | — |
| GPT 2 product | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Google Spanner product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Google's Gemini product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Google Home product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Google Flu Trends product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Google Cloud Composer product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Goldman Sachs company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Golang product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Glean AI company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Git product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Fujitsu company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Frontier Math product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Fortune company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Fivetran company | 1 ↓ | — |
| First Look Media company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Firebase product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Figma company | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Facebook's New M Service product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Fab.com company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Ezra company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Experian company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Etched company | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Elastic company | 1 ↓ | — |
| EC II product | 1 ↓ | — |
| DotCloud company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Domino Data Lab company | 1 ↓ | — |
| DocumentDB product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Docker company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Dextro company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Devin product | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| DeepScribe company | 1 ↓ | — |
| DeepMind company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Datorama company | 1 ↓ | — |
| DataRobot company | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Data.gov product | 1 ↓ | — |
| D3 product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Cursor product | 1 ↓ | — |
| CUDA product | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Copilot product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Collibra company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Codeanywhere company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Cockroach Labs company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Clippy product | 1 ↓ | — |
| ClinVar product | 1 ↓ | — |
| ClickHouse Cloud product | 1 ↓ | — |
| ClickHouse company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Claude 3 Opus product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Chat GPT API product | 1 ↓ | — |
| CB Insights company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Cazena company | 1 ↓ | — |
| CapCut product | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Canva company | 1 ↓ | — |
| ByteDance company | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Bureau Of Labor Statistics company | 1 ↓ | — |
| BrightHive company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Box company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Bonobos company | 1 ↓ | — |
| BlenderBot product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Bing product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Benchmark fund | 1 ↓ | — |
| AWS Redshift product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Automated Insights company | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Astronomer company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Aster Data company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Area 1 Security company | 1 ↓ | — |
| ARC Benchmark product | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| ARC AGI 2 product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Apple's Vision Pro product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Answer.ai company | 1 ↓ | — |
| American Airlines company | 1 ↓ | — |
| AMD company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Amazon Redshift product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Amazon MWAA product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Amazon Aurora product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Algolia company | 1 ↓ | — |
| Airflow product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Airbnb company | 1 ↓ | — |
| AI21 Labs company | 1 ↓ | — |
| AI 2040: Plan A product | 1 ↓ | — |
| Accenture company | 1 ↓ | 1 |
| Accel fund | 1 ↓ | — |
| 10gen company | 1 ↓ | — |