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Saagar Enjeti

Co-host and Co-founder, Breaking Points · 1 appearance on the record.

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Saagar Enjeti is the populist-right co-host of the independent news and political analysis show Breaking Points, alongside Krystal Ball. He previously worked as a White House correspondent for The Daily Caller and co-authored the book The Populist's Guide to 2020.

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1 assertion · 2 opinions · 6 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. 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 Saagar argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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

Assertion Partly supported
Enjeti: NIAID granted $600K to Peter Daszak in Anthony Fauci's final days
“Dr. Fauci on his waning days as the head of NIAID actually just granted a 600,000 dollar grant to the same individual for the same type of research, which possibly led to the escape of coronavirus from the Wuhan lab.”
Saagar Enjeti Oct 12, 2022 ▶ 24:46 How To Get Started With Building An Audience in 2022 (#373)
Opinion
Enjeti: Legacy establishment content cannot compete in a free-market streaming environment
“Shitty establishment content previously force-fed to us in cable monopoly era simply cannot compete in the free market streaming.”
Saagar Enjeti Oct 12, 2022 ▶ 38:11 How To Get Started With Building An Audience in 2022 (#373)
Insight
Enjeti: Building an audience requires offering something that does not exist
“Building an audience is a lot like making money especially in the year, 2022, which is that you have to provide something that doesn't exist, and then people will commoditize it with their attention.”
Saagar Enjeti Oct 12, 2022 ▶ 2:05 How To Get Started With Building An Audience in 2022 (#373)
Insight
Enjeti: MrBeast has standard YouTube analytics but interprets data better
“He has the exact same YouTube dashboard that I have, that all of us have, that you have access to. He just figured out how to read it better than anybody else.”
Saagar Enjeti Oct 12, 2022 ▶ 7:06 How To Get Started With Building An Audience in 2022 (#373)
Insight
Enjeti: Viral content requires timeliness, conciseness, and open-ended framing
“Timeliness is number one. It has to be timely. Number two, it has to be the most viral stuff, I believe, has to be able to resonate with somebody and not tell them how to think. Just give them the ability to then form something. And then three, I think it's al…”
Saagar Enjeti Oct 12, 2022 ▶ 21:48 How To Get Started With Building An Audience in 2022 (#373)
Disclosure
Enjeti: Editorial strategy involves covering whatever Washington DC insiders ignore
“I know what the people in power are talking about and obsessed with, and my general orientation has been to bet against whatever that is and cover anything else.”
Saagar Enjeti Oct 12, 2022 ▶ 27:08 How To Get Started With Building An Audience in 2022 (#373)
Insight
Enjeti: Viral commentary requires linking two trending events to a broader metanarrative
“You take two viral events that are being discussed, you pair them together, and then you put a thesis statement on why exactly it supports a broader metanarrative.”
Saagar Enjeti Oct 12, 2022 ▶ 38:03 How To Get Started With Building An Audience in 2022 (#373)
Insight
Enjeti: 10,000 and 50,000 followers are critical audience growth inflection points
“I think 10 is a big inflection point. I think 50 Is an even bigger inflection point. That's where things really begin to go vertical.”
Saagar Enjeti Oct 12, 2022 ▶ 42:43 How To Get Started With Building An Audience in 2022 (#373)
Opinion
Enjeti: Instagram delivers much higher quality audience engagement than Twitter
“My business is almost entirely dependent on YouTube. And I can, frankly, I care more about Instagram than I do about Twitter. I think I have much higher quality engagement. Just from what I've seen, my ability to sell either my subscription tickets any of thos…”
Saagar Enjeti Oct 12, 2022 ▶ 43:24 How To Get Started With Building An Audience in 2022 (#373)
Insight
Enjeti: Influencer and podcast market returns follow an exponential power law
“In the whole influencer market, All returns are exponential. Both, you know, the top point on one percent of podcasts get just so many more downloads than even the top one percent of podcasts.”
Saagar Enjeti Oct 12, 2022 ▶ 2:45 How To Get Started With Building An Audience in 2022 (#373)
Disclosure
Enjeti: Spent $60K on studio cameras, but 4K isn't needed to start
“You know, I recently spent 60,000 dollars on cameras, and that's after three years of doing this, but needing four K cameras was an added benefit for my existing audience, not what I needed for a requisite to start.”
Saagar Enjeti Oct 12, 2022 ▶ 6:24 How To Get Started With Building An Audience in 2022 (#373)

The other half of the tape: Saagar Enjeti's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 11 times in 2 episodes on My First Million. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

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Statements about Saagar Enjeti, by other people (1)

Assertion Supported
Saagar Enjeti gained his first 10,000 subscribers transcribing Trump speeches in real-time
“And so what he did was he's like, okay, they have this, they need data. They need visualizations. They need charts. Cool. So I'm just going to do, or they need transcripts, like quick transcripts of like what Trump just said. They need to have like the edited,…”
Shaan Puri Oct 11, 2022 ▶ 21:06 This Guy Went From $0 to Billionaire By Starting A Toy Factory In China (#372)

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
How To Get Started With Building An Audience in 2022 (#373) Oct 12, 2022 15m
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