Anand Sinha

Co-Founder & CTO, Internet Activism · 1 appearance on the record.

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He co-founded Internet Activism, a non-profit technology organization developing open-source digital humanitarian tools such as TakeShelter to connect displaced people with housing. He served as the organization's CTO while studying Computer Science at the University of Michigan.

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3 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Anand argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Anand Sinha: COVID Dashboard Was Used by 600 Million People
“Another example of a project we worked on is the world's most popular coronavirus tracking dashboard. This was launched in January, 20, 20 before COVID-nineteen was officially a pandemic. It was used by over six hundred million people.”
Anand Sinha Dec 16, 2022 ▶ 18:50 University of Michigan Students Pitch Us Their Startups | $5000 Prize Money (#396)

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Everything Anand Sinha said on My First Million that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Anand Sinha: Ukraine Take Shelter Housed Over 100,000 Refugees
“In March, 20, 22, we launched a website called Ukraine Take Shelter. This is essentially like Airbnb for refugees. We connected refugees with potential hosts, and over the last year, we've been able to house over a 100,000 refugees, which has 10,000 dollars in…”
Anand Sinha Dec 16, 2022 ▶ 18:28 University of Michigan Students Pitch Us Their Startups | $5000 Prize Money (#396)
Assertion Supported
Anand Sinha: COVID Dashboard Was Used by 600 Million People
“Another example of a project we worked on is the world's most popular coronavirus tracking dashboard. This was launched in January, 20, 20 before COVID-nineteen was officially a pandemic. It was used by over six hundred million people.”
Anand Sinha Dec 16, 2022 ▶ 18:50 University of Michigan Students Pitch Us Their Startups | $5000 Prize Money (#396)
Assertion Supported
Anand Sinha: Internet Activism Compiled COVID Data Before Johns Hopkins
“This was before John Hopkins started like publicly aggregating all the data and releasing it. We just had an advantage of being like one of the first people to compile all this data and share it with everyone. Again, this was in January, 20 20.”
Anand Sinha Dec 16, 2022 ▶ 22:00 University of Michigan Students Pitch Us Their Startups | $5000 Prize Money (#396)

The other half of the tape: Anand Sinha's own voice is left out of every number here. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Statements about Anand Sinha, by other people (2)

Opinion
Sam Parr: Internet Activism Should Adopt a For-Profit Model
“I would urge him to have a for-profit way of doing this.”
Sam Parr Dec 16, 2022 ▶ 28:41 University of Michigan Students Pitch Us Their Startups | $5000 Prize Money (#396)
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2027
Sam Parr: Internet Activism Founder Will Be on Forbes Cover Within 5 Years
“He is so impressive that I was, I, this guy's going to be on the cover of fortune or Forbes, I think in the next five years.”
Sam Parr Dec 16, 2022 ▶ 1:07:59 University of Michigan Students Pitch Us Their Startups | $5000 Prize Money (#396)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
University of Michigan Students Pitch Us Their Startups | $5000 Prize Money (#396) Dec 16, 2022 6m
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