why aren't all 8 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 Supported
Puri: Bret Taylor forced Elon Musk to complete Twitter acquisition
“He was the board member that basically forced Elon to stick to his offer. He stood up to Elon and basically forced Elon to buy and got an amazing deal for the Twitter shareholders.”
Assertion Supported
Wilkinson: Tiny raised an $11M rolling fund in four hours via Twitter
“We literally were like, we tweeted it out as like an afterthought and we raised it in like four hours.”
Assertion Supported
Shaan Puri: Facebook and Twitter pay zero ad revenue share to creators
“Us, the dancing monkeys that go sit on Twitter all day, coming up with interesting ideas, giving them the interesting content. We get zero, right? So like if I go check my Twitter ad split or my Facebook ad split, and Facebook made, I don't know how many tens …”
Assertion Supported
Shaan Puri: BitClout preloaded profiles for the top 15,000 Twitter influencers
“For the top 15,000 influencers on Twitter, it's preloaded into the platform.”
Assertion Supported
Puri: Iron Mountain is worth $30B, surpassing Snap and Pinterest
“This giant filing cabinet is worth more than Snapchat. It's worth more than Pinterest. It's worth more than Twitter as a company. Isn't that crazy? The thirty billion dollar company.”
Assertion Supported
Puri: Harvard generates more annual revenue than Twitter and Snapchat
“The school earns more revenue than both Twitter and Snapchat. Twitter's at five billion, Snapchat's 4.6 billion. Harvard has more revenue than both of them.”
Assertion Supported
Puri: Grew personal Twitter from 20K to 300K followers in 18 months
“I grew my personal Twitter from like 10 or 20,000 followers to It's at 300,000 in like a year, basically, a year and a half. In a year, we got to 200,000, then it just trickled up.”
Assertion Supported
Jack Butcher sold an NFT of his own tweet for roughly $150,000
“Last, last week, what he did was he wrote he did an NFT and it says, here's the difference between a J, a JPEG and an NFT. And it just had a verified, it, he basically made a tweet And then he sold that tweet for like, a 150,000 dollars.”