Straight Answers
An LLM assessed 1,866 question → answer exchanges, the host's own answers included. Speaker names were hidden during assessment. Each exchange was marked answered, partly, redirected or not addressed, with a quote as its source. Every exchange below is timestamped and plays. How it works →
These readings are observational: the transcript shows whether the question was answered directly, whatever the reason. It is an AI reading of a public exchange, never a claim about intent, and the tape is one tap away on every row. full disclaimer →
Every one of the 391 people on the record is accounted for: 114 carry a full rate (8 or more assessed questions on raw tape), 160 more have their questions counted (24 of them with at least one not answered directly; too few raw questions for a fair percentage, edited feed included), and the remaining 117 never took a direct question in any tape we hold: compilations, panels and cameo appearances leave nothing to assess.
Pavel Izmailov: every exchange, playable
The question Matt asked, then the AI assessment note from the answer. Tap to play the moment. Not addressed = the question was not engaged; redirected = acknowledged, then steered elsewhere.
All speakers
All 114 people with 8 or more assessed questions on raw tape. Click a name to see their exchanges. highest rate none identified small samples
| Person | Not answered directly (%) | Redirected + not addressed | Questions | Argument clarity /5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan Catanzaro VP of Applied Deep Learning Research, NVIDIA | 36% | 5 | 14 | 4.1 |
| Matt Turck Partner, FirstMark Capital | 30% | 8 | 27 | 3.7 |
| Corinna Hong Founder & CEO, Axiom | 29% | 4 | 14 | 3.8 |
| Aaron Katz Co-Founder and CEO, ClickHouse | 29% | 4 | 14 | 4.1 |
| Sridhar Ramaswamy CEO, Snowflake | 25% | 3 | 12 | 4.0 |
| Carly Taylor Field CTO for Gaming, Databricks | 25% | 3 | 12 | 4.2 |
| Chris Wiggins Associate Professor, Columbia University | 22% | 2 | 9 | 4.2 |
| Bob Muglia Investor & Board Director | 22% | 2 | 9 | 4.1 |
| Tristan Handy Founder & CEO, dbt Labs | 21% | 3 | 14 | 4.2 |
| Richard Socher Founder & CEO, You.com | 20% | 3 | 15 | 4.0 |
| Guillermo Rauch Founder & CEO, Vercel | 19% | 3 | 16 | 4.0 |
| Dylan Patel Founder & Chief Analyst, SemiAnalysis | 17% | 2 | 12 | 3.9 |
| Nathan Lambert Founder, Interconnects AI | 17% | 2 | 12 | 4.0 |
| Lin Qiao Co-Founder & CEO, Fireworks AI | 17% | 2 | 12 | 4.1 |
| Amjad Masad Co-founder & CEO, Replit | 17% | 2 | 12 | 4.2 |
| Chip Huyen Author & Technologist, Tep Studio | 14% | 2 | 14 | 3.8 |
| Felix Rieseberg Engineering Lead, Anthropic | 14% | 2 | 14 | 4.0 |
| Zico Kolter Professor and Department Head, Carnegie Mellon University | 14% | 2 | 14 | 4.1 |
| Florian Douetteau Co-Founder & CEO, Dataiku | 13% | 2 | 15 | 4.0 |
| Cristobal Valenzuela Co-founder & CEO, Runway | 13% | 2 | 16 | 4.1 |
| Gaurav Misra Co-founder & CEO, Captions | 13% | 2 | 16 | 4.2 |
| Mike Palmer CEO, Sigma Computing | 13% | 1 | 8 | 4.2 |
| May Habib Co-Founder, Writer | 13% | 1 | 8 | 4.1 |
| Bob van Luijt Co-founder & CEO, Weaviate | 13% | 1 | 8 | 3.9 |
| Mathew Lodge CEO, Diffblue | 13% | 1 | 8 | 4.1 |
| Barr Moses Co-Founder & CEO, Monte Carlo | 13% | 1 | 8 | 4.2 |
| Jerome Pesenti CTO, Campus | 11% | 1 | 9 | 4.0 |
| Ben Uretsky Co-founder & Former CEO, DigitalOcean | 11% | 1 | 9 | 4.3 |
| Brandon Duderstadt CEO & Co-Founder, Nomic | 9% | 1 | 11 | 4.3 |
| Łukasz Kaiser Research Scientist, OpenAI | 8% | 1 | 12 | 4.2 |
| Jeremy Howard Co-Founder, Answer.AI | 8% | 1 | 12 | 4.2 |
| Arvind Jain Co-founder & CEO, Glean | 8% | 1 | 12 | 4.2 |
| Erik Bernhardsson Founder and CEO, Modal Labs | 8% | 1 | 12 | 4.2 |
| Azeem Azhar Founder, Exponential View | 8% | 1 | 12 | 4.2 |
| Alex Rinke Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Celonis | 8% | 1 | 12 | 4.1 |
| Lukas Biewald Co-founder & CEO, Weights & Biases | 8% | 1 | 12 | 4.1 |
| Dev Ittycheria Former President & CEO, MongoDB | 8% | 1 | 12 | 4.5 |
| Martin Casado General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 8% | 1 | 12 | 4.3 |
| Matt Ober General Partner, Social Leverage | 8% | 1 | 12 | 4.2 |
| Matthew Prince Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare | 8% | 1 | 12 | 4.2 |
| Dan Roberts Research Lead, OpenAI | 8% | 1 | 12 | 4.1 |
| Andrew Feldman Co-Founder and CEO, Cerebras Systems | 8% | 1 | 12 | 4.2 |
| Sebastian Raschka | 8% | 1 | 13 | 4.1 |
| Sholto Douglas AI Researcher, Anthropic | 8% | 1 | 13 | 4.5 |
| Douwe Kiela Research Scientist Director, Google DeepMind | 8% | 1 | 13 | 4.3 |
| Timothée LeCroix Co-Founder & CTO, Mistral AI | 7% | 1 | 14 | 4.2 |
| Jerry Tworek CEO & Co-founder, Core Automation | 7% | 1 | 14 | 4.0 |
| Boris Cherny Head of Claude Code, Anthropic | 7% | 1 | 14 | 4.4 |
| Emily Glassberg Sands Head of Information, Stripe | 7% | 1 | 14 | 4.3 |
| Brendan Humphreys Advisor, Canva | 7% | 1 | 14 | 4.4 |
| George Sivulka Founder & CEO, Hebbia | 7% | 1 | 14 | 4.2 |
| Clement Delangue Founder & CEO, Hugging Face | 7% | 1 | 14 | 4.3 |
| Chris Dixon Founder & Managing Partner, a16z crypto | 7% | 1 | 14 | 4.2 |
| Yann Dubois Research Scientist, OpenAI | 7% | 1 | 15 | 4.2 |
| Pavel Izmailov Assistant Professor, NYU and Researcher, Anthropic | 6% | 1 | 16 | 4.4 |
| Chris Pedregal Co-Founder & CEO, Granola | 6% | 1 | 16 | 4.3 |
| Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) Founder & Lead Consultant, Seattle Data Guy | 6% | 1 | 16 | 4.3 |
| Sebastien Bourgeau AI Research Lead, Google DeepMind | 0% | 0 | 14 | 4.3 |
| Neil Zeghidour Co-founder & CEO, Gradium AI | 0% | 0 | 14 | 4.2 |
| Luca Soldaini Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.3 |
| Eiso Kant Co-Founder & CTO, Poolside | 0% | 0 | 11 | 4.3 |
| Julian Schrittwieser AI Researcher, Anthropic | 0% | 0 | 14 | 4.5 |
| Nathan Benaich Founder & General Partner, Air Street Capital | 0% | 0 | 14 | 4.4 |
| Eleonore Crespo Co-Founder, Pigment | 0% | 0 | 14 | 4.2 |
| Misha Laskin Co-founder & CEO, Reflection AI | 0% | 0 | 14 | 4.3 |
| Thomas Dohmke Founder and CEO, Entire | 0% | 0 | 12 | 4.3 |
| Aidan Gomez Co-founder & CEO, Cohere | 0% | 0 | 12 | 4.5 |
| Aaron Levie Co-Founder & CEO, Box | 0% | 0 | 14 | 4.3 |
| Francois Chollet Co-Founder, Ndea | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.3 |
| Mike Murchison Co-Founder & CEO, Ada | 0% | 0 | 14 | 4.2 |
| Justin Borgman Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Starburst | 0% | 0 | 14 | 4.6 |
| Jordan Tigani Co-Founder and CEO, MotherDuck | 0% | 0 | 12 | 4.3 |
| Daniel Dines Founder & CEO, UiPath | 0% | 0 | 11 | 4.3 |
| Tomasz Tunguz Founder & General Partner, Theory Ventures | 0% | 0 | 11 | 4.5 |
| Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Founder, SurrealDB | 0% | 0 | 9 | 4.3 |
| Olivier Pomel Co-Founder & CEO, Datadog | 0% | 0 | 16 | 4.3 |
| Ali Dasdan CTO, Dropbox | 0% | 0 | 13 | 4.0 |
| Eric Glyman Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Ramp | 0% | 0 | 9 | 4.2 |
| Sharon Zhou VP of AI, AMD | 0% | 0 | 16 | 4.3 |
| Jeremy Kahn AI Editor, Fortune Magazine | 0% | 0 | 11 | 4.5 |
| Renen Hallak Founder & CEO, VAST Data | 0% | 0 | 13 | 4.3 |
| Morgan McGuire Independent Researcher & Advisor, Casual Effects | 0% | 0 | 12 | 4.2 |
| Emi Gal Founder & CEO, Ezra | 0% | 0 | 12 | 4.5 |
| Des Traynor Co-Founder and CSO, Intercom | 0% | 0 | 16 | 4.4 |
| Jack Berkowitz Chief Data Officer, Securiti | 0% | 0 | 9 | 4.5 |
| Benn Stancil Field CTO, ThoughtSpot | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.4 |
| Akilesh Bapu Head of AI Product Development, Hightouch | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.3 |
| Kanjun Qiu Co-Founder and CEO, Imbue | 0% | 0 | 9 | 4.1 |
| Shreya Rajpal Co-founder & CEO, Guardrails AI | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.3 |
| Nancy Xu CEO & Founder, Moonhub AI | 0% | 0 | 9 | 4.1 |
| Milos Rusic CEO & Co-Founder, deepset AI | 0% | 0 | 9 | 4.1 |
| Victor Riparbelli Co-Founder & CEO, Synthesia | 0% | 0 | 9 | 4.3 |
| William Falcon Founder & CEO, Lightning AI | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.2 |
| Spencer Kimball Co-Founder & CEO, Cockroach Labs | 0% | 0 | 11 | 4.2 |
| Felix Van de Maele Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.2 |
| Zhamak Dehghani Founder & CEO, Nextdata | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.1 |
| Ali Ghodsi Founder & CEO, Databricks | 0% | 0 | 12 | 4.3 |
| Dave Burgess Head of Data Engineering, Pinterest | 0% | 0 | 11 | 4.4 |
| Arjun Narayan Venture Partner, Amplify Partners | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.5 |
| Jack Hanlon AI Product Leader, Meta | 0% | 0 | 9 | 4.1 |
| Guy Podjarny Founder & CEO, Tessl | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.4 |
| Ashley Kramer Chief Revenue Officer, ElevenLabs | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.4 |
| Amit Bendov Founder & CEO, Gong | 0% | 0 | 9 | 4.1 |
| George Fraser Co-founder & CEO, Fivetran | 0% | 0 | 9 | 4.5 |
| Nate Stewart CEO, Materialize | 0% | 0 | 9 | 4.5 |
| Roger Ehrenberg Founder & Managing Partner, Eberg Capital | 0% | 0 | 12 | 4.2 |
| Solmaz Shahalizadeh AI Operating Partner, HGGC | 0% | 0 | 9 | 4.3 |
| Joe Lonsdale Founder & Managing Partner, 8VC | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.1 |
| Dwight Merriman CEO & Co-Founder, 10Gen | 0% | 0 | 9 | 4.1 |
| Harrison Chase Co-founder & CEO, LangChain | 0% | 0 | 12 | 4.3 |
| Mostafa Dehghani Research Scientist, Google DeepMind | 0% | 0 | 14 | 4.0 |
| Ivan Burazin CEO & Co-Founder, Daytona | 0% | 0 | 12 | 4.2 |
| Sachin Katti VP of Compute Strategy, OpenAI | 0% | 0 | 12 | 4.4 |
| Stephen Balaban Co-Founder & CTO, Lambda | 0% | 0 | 14 | 4.3 |
Percentages come from raw unedited recordings only: produced podcast audio has tangents and stumbles cut in the edit, which moves the speaker up by about 12 percentile points. The small-sample counts include the produced feed. This is a reading of a transcript. It is not an accusation of dishonesty, and there are many good reasons not to answer a question directly (confidential numbers, unreleased products, someone else's news to break).