Venture capital, startups and investing, on tape.

Every prediction, opinion and bold claim from My First Million: extracted from the transcript, verified against the tape, checked against cited public sources, playable at the exact moment it was said.

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Prediction Not checkable as stated
Currier: Nvidia and big LLM training companies will eventually go to zero
“So both Nvidia and all of these giant LM companies who are spending all this money on training are going to go to zero eventually.”
James Currier Apr 15, 2025 ▶ 1:09:33 From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+
Assertion Contradicted
Shkreli: Zero percent of patients lost access to Daraprim after price hike
“Zero percent.”
Martin Shkreli Apr 20, 2023 ▶ 47:07 Martin Shkreli Reveals How He Made His First $100 Million (#445)
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Srinivasan: Crypto will replace Yale Law, Columbia Journalism, and Kennedy School
“Crypto is not just, you know, the next wall street. It's also the next Silicon Valley because decentralized social networks and so on are built there, but even less, obviously it's the next Yale law and Columbia school of journalism and Kennedy school of gover…”
Balaji Srinivasan May 5, 2021 ▶ 1:30:35 Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
Assertion Contradicted
Means: Stanford medical dean took $4M from opioid firms for ethics research
“Reached out to the Dean of Stanford Med School, who was a pain specialist, and we funded him directly with consulting payments, and then made a donation to Stanford to his lab for four million dollars from opioid companies to study ethics and pain management.”
Calley Means Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 29:02 The Dark Story Behind Ozempic’s $500B Business Empire
Assertion Contradicted
Means: 15 of 19 members on 2011 NIH opioid panel took pharma payments
“The Dean of Stanford Med School who just took a bunch of money from opioid companies was appointed in 2011 to the blue ribbon panel on opioid recommendations. He shows 19 other elite academics. 15 of the 19 had direct payments from opioid companies that we Ver…”
Calley Means Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 29:39 The Dark Story Behind Ozempic’s $500B Business Empire
Opinion
Yanowitz: The best way for Bitcoin to really work is US collapse
“The best way for Bitcoin to really work is for the U S to collapse.”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 1:04:07 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company

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Assertion Supported
WWE secured a 10-year, $5B streaming deal with Netflix
“WWE just cut off a 10 year, five billion dollar deal with Netflix just for one of their shows, which is kind of insane. It's going to go from USA Network To Netflix.”
Shaan Puri Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 25:15 What Stock Would Warren Buffett Buy If He Started Over In 2024?
Assertion Contradicted
Nagpal: Peter Thiel can withdraw entire Roth IRA tax-free next year
“He turns, he retires next year, so he gets all of that with no taxes.”
Ankur Nagpal May 14, 2025 ▶ 17:17 How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)
Assertion Supported
Parr: Martha Stewart served 5 months for lying, not insider trading
“And so we are going to put you in federal penitentiary for five months for lying, not for insider trading, but for lying about this, like somewhat, ah, not that big of a deal fact. And so kind of bullshit, kind of not like she did lie, but like she got five mo…”
Sam Parr Nov 19, 2024 ▶ 12:06 3 Stories Of People Making Millions In Weird Ways
Assertion Contradicted
Means: Americans consume 100 times more sugar today than a century ago
“We now eat a hundred times more sugar than we did a hundred years ago.”
Calley Means Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 15:52 The Dark Story Behind Ozempic’s $500B Business Empire

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109days Liemandt: Alpha will launch a free-to-learn educational game this year Joe Liemandt · prediction date: 2026-12-31 119days Puri predicts MrBeast will sell Feastables at a $6 billion valuation Shaan Puri · prediction date: 2027-01-10 416days Rose predicts generative AI will make Fiverr completely non-existent Kevin Rose · prediction date: 2027-11-03 416days Rose: AI will write 90% of a New York Times bestseller by 2027 Kevin Rose · prediction date: 2027-11-03

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Ordered by full support rate, then by supported count. Minimum three resolved. Partly supported claims count as resolved but not as fully supported, same as everywhere on the ledger.

PersonEpsStatementsSupportedPartly supportedContradictedFull support rate
Michael Saylor 1 22 7 0 0 100%
Dan Held 1 22 6 0 0 100%
Jon McNeill 1 13 4 0 0 100%
Anand Sanwal 2 18 4 0 0 100%
Dharmesh Shah 3 65 4 0 0 100%
Ben Horowitz 1 24 3 0 0 100%
George Mack 2 26 3 0 0 100%
Nick Gray 3 18 3 0 0 100%

From the Wisdom Wall all quotes →

“ad buying is like a commodity, right? Now, yeah, before, a few years ago, you have to be really, really good at ad buying, but now Meta does all of that for you already, right? You don't need to do…”

“I think go viral is the wrong idea. It's sort of this, like, false hope, like, lottery ticket type of mentality. But when you say, I'm one format away, you have all of the upside of the go viral…”

“Well, so you could, but the thing is, you're only gonna be able to keep up with, what, 20 agents? Cause it's gonna keep assigning you tasks and more things to do and more things to do. And so there…”

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