Straight Answers
An LLM assessed 109 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 34 people on the record is accounted for: 2 carry a full rate (8 or more assessed questions on raw tape), 28 more have their questions counted (4 of them with at least one not answered directly; too few raw questions for a fair percentage, edited feed included), and the remaining 4 never took a direct question in any tape we hold: compilations, panels and cameo appearances leave nothing to assess.
The small samples
All 28 people with fewer than 8 assessed questions on raw tape. A percentage on a sample this small would mislead, so these are counts, not rates, and the edited feed is included. highest rate none identified small samples
| Person | Redirected + not addressed | Questions | Tape | Argument clarity /5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave Morin Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Offline Ventures | 1 | 6 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Anatoly Yakovenko Co-Founder and CEO, Solana Labs | 1 | 6 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Tony Conrad Partner, True Ventures | 1 | 2 | raw | — |
| Ricky Van Veen | 1 | 1 | raw | — |
| Guillermo Rauch Founder & CEO, Vercel | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Vinod Khosla Founder, Khosla Ventures | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Adrian Aoun Founder & Investor, aoun.net | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Elad Gil Founder, Gil Capital | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Brian Singerman Partner Emeritus, Founders Fund | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Ben Smith Co-Founder, Semafor | 0 | 4 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Peter Deng General Partner, Felicis | 0 | 3 | raw | ≈4.0 |
| Joanna Coles Chief Content Officer, The Daily Beast | 0 | 2 | raw | — |
| Casey Neistat Filmmaker and YouTube Creator | 0 | 2 | raw | — |
| Brit Morin Managing Partner, Offline Ventures | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Amir Efrati Journalist, The Information | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Mike Brown CEO, Teamshares | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Sudarshan "Suds" | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Rachel Holt Founder, Construct Capital | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Scott Belsky Partner, A24 | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Scott Stanford Founder, Acme Capital | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Josh Wolfe Founder, Lux Capital | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Aaron Levie Co-Founder & CEO, Box | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Matt Vascellaro | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Dan Feder | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Ben Lerer Managing Partner, Lerer Hippeau | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Nicholas Carlson | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Julia Hartz Co-Founder and former CEO, Eventbrite | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Erin Foster Co-Founder, Favorite Daughter | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
The moments, on tape
The question 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.
“What will bending spoons do with it? Do you think?”
answered: “If anything, this is the right way to go about things”
“Wait, I have a question, Jess, what do you mean by feminine energy? Like, what do we need to bring to the, to bear here?”
answered: “the point isn't to define it. The point is to, like, unleash more energy.”
“A lot of brands pulled out of advertising on X, you know, based on Elon and everything else that was happening there, but it, I mean, how detrimental was it to that business? It didn't, I mean, a lot of them came back.”
answered: “I guess it's like on the corporate side, which way do we think the pendulum's swinging?”
“What, like, what's going to happen with these IPO valuations, Anatoly? All these big, the circles, and like, what's going on?”
answered: “hard to imagine five trillion dollars worth of stable coins issued”
“Yeah. Um, and that, that's a little bit of a scary thing for me in the market right now.”
answered: “Well, I always get nervous when markets get pulled forward, you know, like, even like our”
“And Ricky, if you were, like, starting College Humor today with AI as it exists, would you do anything differently?”
answered: “being in the partnerships org, like, we think about how to empower creators”
“And then Instagram came out with like, okay, we're going to have the common unit and we're going to have the feed and a network structure and all the rest of it. And so that's the thing that stuck, right?”
answered: “The thing that strikes me is so different about this AI wave though, versus mobile”
“Or what we, what do you guys do about that? Because that's a reality today.”
answered: “Every time we do conversations with like normies, like the head of school or whatever”
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).