why aren't all 7 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Assertion Partly supported
Connor Price: TikTok suppresses comments mentioning Spotify or link in bio
“TikTok at this point, too, even, if you try to write the word link in bio or even Spotify, they'll hide the comment. And we've tested this. I've written that, I've posted that comment under my own video, logged into a different account to go there, and the com…”
Prediction Held up
Puri: Developers will scrape Spotify to train open-source AI music models
“Somebody's about to do that for music. They're about to download all the music. They're about to go download all the music off Spotify. And then they're going to train an engine to say, Hey, create new music. This is what music is. Create new music. And that's…”
Assertion Supported
Brianna Price: 1M Spotify streams generates $4,000 on average
“It's roughly, there's a lot of variables, but on average, a million streams is around 4000 dollars USD. On Spotify.”
Assertion Supported
Price: Song 'Spinin' crossed 100M Spotify streams in under nine months
“That's the song that now has over a hundred million streams on Spotify in less than nine months.”
Assertion Supported
Puri: LeBron James avoids roaming charges and uses Spotify with ads
“LeBron famously, like he doesn't turn on roaming when they go play the Raptors in Canada. He's like, no, I'm good. Like I'll, if I got wifi, I got it. If not, and I, and he's got like Spotify with ads still.”
Assertion Partly supported
Shaan Puri: Spotify acquired true crime network Parcast for $100M
“True crime podcast network, 16 shows, and he sold it to Spotify for like a hundred million dollars, fifty million in cash, fifty million in the earn out.”
Assertion Contradicted
Parr: My First Million hit top 35 global podcasts on Spotify
“I think last week or two weeks ago, I think we were the 35th or something most popular podcast in the world on Spotify. All categories. Not just business.”