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United States

also referred to as: u s · us

31 statements across 26 episodes · 9 bullish · 6 bearish · 25 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2013 by Chris Moody · said 492 times in 169 episodes since 2013 · across every show →

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brought up most by Matt Turck (82), Alex Rinke (23), Ryan Greenblatt (17), Dylan Patel (14), Spencer Kimball (12), Zach Perret (11), Azeem Azhar (11), Noah Breslow (8)

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2019 34 mentions in 12 episodes 3 per episode
2018 34 mentions in 11 episodes 3 per episode
2017 26 mentions in 9 episodes 3 per episode
2016 20 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
2015 31 mentions in 18 episodes 2 per episode
2014 35 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
2013 20 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode

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Everything said about United States, oldest first

Dec 5, 2013 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Moody: Boulder, Colorado, has the highest PhDs per capita in America
“They're actually, per capita, have more PhDs than any other city in the United States.”
Chris Moody Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 20:49 Chris Moody, Gnip // Data Driven NYC #3 // Feb 2012
Dec 19, 2013 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Wilson: 5M teachers and 70M students use Edmodo in the US
“So today, four years later, five million teachers, seventy million students are using it in the K through 12 system here in the United States.”
Fred Wilson Dec 19, 2013 ▶ 9:48 Fred Wilson, USV // Data Driven NYC #18 // Sep 2013 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
Nov 20, 2014
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mortensen: 87 million US knowledge workers schedule 10 billion meetings annually
“So, there's eighty-seven million US knowledge workers today scheduling about ten billion something formal meetings every year, which is a problem you just can't solve with humans.”
Dennis Mortensen Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 24:21 Dennis Mortensen and Marcos Jimenez, x.ai // Your AI-powered Virtual Assistant
Feb 18, 2015
Assertion Contradicted
Bisignano: US has one genetic counselor per 250,000 people
“Right now there's about one genetic counselor for every 250,000 individuals in the U.S.”
Alexander Bisignano Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 8:27 Alexander Bisignano, Recombine // Genetic Testing // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
May 28, 2015
Assertion Not checkable as stated
DonorsChoose holds the largest US database of public school resource requests.
“What DonorChoose realized is they're actually sitting on the largest database of school requests around public schools in the US. No one's ever looked at that data before. No one else has it.”
Jake Porway May 28, 2015 ▶ 4:55 Jake Porway, DataKind // Data For The Greater Good (FirstMark / Data Driven NYC)
Sep 14, 2015
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Thirty percent of CrowdFlower's crowdsourced workforce is based in the US
“It's also 30% US-based.”
Lukas Biewald Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 19:28 Lukas Biewald, CrowdFlower // Enriching Your Data (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Sep 30, 2016 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dauber: HIPAA puts the US at a material disadvantage in healthcare AI
“And I think the United States is gonna be at a material disadvantage on the healthcare side for this reason, where I think, ah, as a patient, and as, ah, a son or a father, You know, I appreciate the HIPAA laws, and I think they're, they have all these good in…”
Mike Dauber Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 27:37 Venture Capital Investor Panel: Investing in Big Data (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
Feb 3, 2017
Assertion Partly supported
The average US home takes three months to sell, with 14% failing
“The average home takes over three months to sell, and there's a one in seven chance to deal with fall through”
Ian Wong Feb 3, 2017 ▶ 2:01 Modernizing Real Estate with Data Science // Ian Wong, Opendoor (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Feb 3, 2017
Assertion Supported
U.S. homes outside major urban centers consistently sell 3% below list price
“When you list a home in the, anywhere else in the country, you actually close for three percent less than you list for, right?”
Ian Wong Feb 3, 2017 ▶ 22:44 Modernizing Real Estate with Data Science // Ian Wong, Opendoor (FirstMark's Data Driven)
May 24, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
PlaceIQ tracks movement data from 165 million opted-in US consumers
“We basically ingest and build a large, very large amount of spatial data in the world, so we understand what's in the world, what does it mean to be in a certain place at a certain time, and then we intersect that with the movement of about a hundred and sixty…”
Duncan McCall May 24, 2017 ▶ 0:49 The Power of Location & Mobile // Duncan McCall, PlaceIQ (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Mar 2, 2018 positive
Assertion Supported
USDA corn production estimates achieve under 1% error by season end
“By the end of the season, they're less than one percent error of the total production in the United States”
Mark Johnson Mar 2, 2018 ▶ 23:38 Every Business Will Need a Data Refinery // Mark Johnson, Descartes Labs (FirstMark's Data Driven)
May 13, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Perret: One in four US consumers have linked an account to Plaid
“It's about one in four people in the US have linked an account with Plaid.”
Zach Perret May 13, 2019 ▶ 11:59 Fireside Chat: Zach Perret, Founder & CEO of Plaid (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Apr 27, 2021 positive
Opinion
Douetteau: The US holds the greatest concentration of data and AI ambition
“Literally speaking, where are the treasure troves of data and AI? Where are the people having the will to do more with data and AI? I must admit, and it will be painful, but indeed it's in the US.”
Florian Douetteau Apr 27, 2021 ▶ 26:21 Fireside Chat: Florian Douetteau (Founder & CEO, Dataiku) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Mar 8, 2022 negative
Insight
Azhar: US antitrust law fails by focusing solely on consumer prices
“And that is where the antitrust law has fallen afoul, certainly in the U S because it was focused fundamentally on cost to consumer, but we know that there are costs that are embedded elsewhere in the system.”
Azeem Azhar Mar 8, 2022 ▶ 12:32 Fireside Chat - Azeem Azhar (Author, The Exponential Age) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Nov 17, 2022 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
ADP pays roughly 20 percent of all workers in the United States
“We pay in the US, you know, something like 18 or 20% of people, and then we do the taxes on another You know, similar size.”
Jack Berkowitz Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 10:24 Leveraging People Data at Scale | ADP Chief Data Officer, Jack Berkowitz
Aug 23, 2023 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Shah: The US healthcare system is 20% to 30% understaffed in nursing
“And so in the country today, we're 20%, 30% understaffed and like nurses alone. This isn't just true in the US. This is true in every single country out there.”
Munjal Shah Aug 23, 2023 ▶ 9:27 Hippocratic AI’s Munjal Shah: Building the First Safety-First LLM for Healthcare
May 3, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
VAST's US staff works remotely while Israeli engineers work in-office
“For example, here people work from home mainly. In Israel, everybody's in the same office together.”
Renen Hallak May 3, 2024 ▶ 40:34 The $9B Startup Going After Snowflake and Databricks | Renen Hallak, CEO of VAST Data
May 16, 2024
Prediction Didn’t hold up
~35 US states will enact data privacy regulations by late 2025
“I think by the end of 20, 25, something like 35 states in the US will have their own privacy regulation.”
Tomasz Tunguz May 16, 2024 ▶ 7:22 AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
May 31, 2024
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
UiPath generated more revenue in Japan than the US in 2017
“Japan, in 2017, was a country that brought us more revenue than US.”
Daniel Dines May 31, 2024 ▶ 29:28 From Tiny Romanian Startup to Global AI Automation Leader | Daniel Dines, CEO of UIPath
Jun 13, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Over half of ClickHouse's revenue comes from outside the US
“And already over half of our revenue comes from outside of the United States.”
Aaron Katz Jun 13, 2024 ▶ 29:13 How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
Jul 2, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Azeem Azhar: US will maintain and accelerate its AI lead
“So, so I think the U S will, I could be persuaded otherwise, but we'll, we'll maintain a lead and the lead ought to ought to accelerate.”
Azeem Azhar Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 41:58 From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
Jul 2, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Azhar: Over 90% of new US electricity capacity added was renewables
“The vast bulk, more than 90% of all the new electricity generation was brought on power in the US was renewables.”
Azeem Azhar Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 52:21 From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
Jul 2, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
AI optimism is 70% in China and India, 30% in US/UK
“Where 70% of people in China and India are optimistic. Only 30% optimistic about these topics in the UK and the US. They actually explicitly want to have less AI.”
Azeem Azhar Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 32:05 From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
Oct 30, 2025 negative
Opinion
Sovereign AI initiatives are mostly marketing and sovereignty washing
“I think it's more marketing than it is like a real policy, because at the end of the day, if you buy your stock from the U S and you're not an ally of the U S at some point, then they'll just switch it off. And so part of this is like sovereignty washing, I th…”
Nathan Benaich Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 32:30 State of AI 2025 with Nathan Benaich: Power Deals, Reasoning Breakthroughs, Real Revenue
Feb 5, 2026 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Patel: The US has not built wholesale new power capacity in 50 years
“America's not built power for 50 years really, right? It's like converted from coal to gas and like things like this, but like really just have not built wholesale new power on a large scale.”
Dylan Patel Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 55:21 Dylan Patel: NVIDIA's New Moat & Why China is "Semiconductor Pilled”
Jun 18, 2026
Assertion Supported
Balaban: Practically no new US data centers use evaporative cooling
“Practically no new builds in the United States are using evaporative cooling for doing the, these closed loop direct to chip liquid cooling systems.”
Stephen Balaban Jun 18, 2026 ▶ 14:06 The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
Jun 18, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Balaban: Everyone in the US will eventually require at least one GPU
“I believe that in the future, everybody in the United States will need the computational power of one GPU or more to just do their daily work You know, enjoy life, whether it's getting access, whether it's getting entertained, whether it's being productive, wh…”
Stephen Balaban Jun 18, 2026 ▶ 1:11:18 The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
Jul 29, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
About 10% of Americans do not regularly wear their seatbelts
“This is an interesting stat, but in the U S approximately 10% of people don't regularly wear their seatbelt.”
Sanjit Biswas Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 10:43 The Biggest AI Deployment Nobody Talks About | Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas
Aug 5, 2026
Assertion Supported
Trojanowski: Over Three Million Accountants Work in the US
“It is, one of, if not the largest knowledge work profession in the country. There are over three million, you know, combined kind of accountants in the country.”
Mitch Trojanowski Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 4:31 How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis
Sep 10, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Socher: Singapore or China probably more likely to adopt AI economic modeling
“My hunch is like Singapore or China will probably be more likely to try to use those ideas. Say, hey, we all agree, or we at least make it very clear that this is our objective function. And then, you know, we're going to really try our best to set the various…”
Richard Socher Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 52:02 When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
Sep 10, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Socher: AI economic policy simulation unlikely in US for very long time
“I don't think this is very feasible in the United States for a very, very long time. It's just so much identity politics and special interest groups and how, you know, super PACs and so on are like, get funded. That is very, very unlikely to be used.”
Richard Socher Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 51:49 When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
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