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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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Assertion Supported
Smith: Waymo already accounts for 20% of Austin Uber rides
“Waymo's are already taking up 20% of Uber rides in Austin”
Assertion Supported
Puri: Uber defied SF cease-and-desist threatening $5,000 daily fines
“Then they literally broke actual laws. It was like running and they were, they got a cease and desist from San Francisco saying, Hey, for every day, your operational, you owe us 5000 dollars per day. And they just kept going.”
Assertion Supported
Puri: Tech Giants Took Nearly $1B in SF Lease Write-Downs Post-COVID
“There's two hundred million dollars of real estate impairments in the past year since COVID. It's almost a billion if you add in the lease related write downs from large companies like Salesforce, Dropbox, Uber, PayPal, Zendesk, just getting rid of their real …”
Assertion Supported
Sam Parr: Uber's 2008 seed deck framed $30M profit as realistic
“So in 2008, Uber was just getting started. They're raising only 200,000 dollars. And on slide 20, They have a deck or a slide that says potential outcomes, and they say best case scenario becomes a market leader with over a billion dollars in annual revenue. R…”
Assertion Supported
Johnson: Braintree built Uber's original invisible checkout payment infrastructure
“We helped Uber do their no the payment experience where you get in the car, you arrive at your destination, you leave the car, no exchange of payment information, no signing of receipts, no printing out receipts.”
Assertion Supported
Uber's founders outsourced early coding and hired Ryan Graves via Twitter
“The Uber founders, Travis and Garrett, they didn't work on it full time. Uber was not a project they were willing to do. They just literally tweeted out, Hey, we need a general manager. And random guy named Ryan Graves was like, I'm a hustler. I'll do it. And …”
Assertion Supported
Uber's early codebase was built by a Mexican agency using Spanish
“The early versions of Uber were written with a ton of Spanish in the code. And so my friends who were early there, they told me, yeah, like, I forget this guy's name. Do you know who I'm talking about?”