The Ledger

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why aren't all 4 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

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Fred Wilson: Successful healthcare startups will bypass hospitals and insurance companies
“And I think what will work for us in healthcare is to service the doctors and the patients and ignore the hospitals and the, Insurance companies and all the big honkin' bureaucratic institutions in healthcare.”
Fred Wilson Dec 19, 2013 ▶ 34:41 Fred Wilson, USV // Data Driven NYC #18 // Sep 2013 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
Assertion Partly supported
Wilson: USV invested $2.5M in Indeed before its $1.4B acquisition
“We put two and a half million dollars into the company. That's all the money that they ever needed and They sold for a 1,000,000,004, you know, so you know, that's as good as it gets, really, in the venture business.”
Fred Wilson Dec 19, 2013 ▶ 1:31 Fred Wilson, USV // Data Driven NYC #18 // Sep 2013 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
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)
Assertion Supported
Fred Wilson: LendingClub operates at one-third the cost of traditional lenders
“Lending Club can do that at Maybe a third of the cost of what a traditional lender can do it at.”
Fred Wilson Dec 19, 2013 ▶ 30:11 Fred Wilson, USV // Data Driven NYC #18 // Sep 2013 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
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