why aren't all 12 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 Partly supported
Sharma: Facebook Used Indian Policy To Defend US Net Neutrality
“And the same Facebook, which had insisted on removing net neutrality here was now defending net neutrality here using the three page policy that we had created to basically preserve our net neutrality.”
Prediction Held up
Garg: Meta will spend $50B to $70B on AI GPUs
“Look there, Meta will spend well north of fifty billion, I think some number between 50 and seventy billion dollars on the underlying data set, on GPUs, essentially.”
Assertion Supported
Sasi: Indian researchers rank in top ten on Google and Meta bounties
“In fact, if you look at Facebook or Google's bug bounty is where companies pay security folks money to find a security incident. So they, Google typically pays 10,000 dollars, which is what, seven lakh for a good security bug. Now, in the top three list of eac…”
Assertion Partly supported
Gupshup reached 70M Indian users when Facebook and Twitter had 1M
“And it actually grew to seventy million users in India at a time where Facebook and Twitter had only like one million users in India, right?”
Assertion Contradicted
Meesho initially thrived as the only tool for WhatsApp and Facebook sales
“They were using our app because we were the only tool to manage sales on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram.”
Assertion Partly supported
Reddy: Facebook Was Hiring 10,000+ Employees Annually by 2017
“Because by that time, Facebook was hiring 10,000 plus people every single year.”
Assertion Supported
Meta's campus sign keeps the old Sun Microsystems logo on the back
“Even today, if you go to the Facebook office you will see one hack away, a big sign that has the Meta logo and behind the Meta sign is the original Sun Microsystems sign, because Mark wants to have that as a constant reminder about how it is so important to ke…”
Assertion Contradicted
Batchu: Google and Meta boomerang policies preserve equity within six months
“Both Google and Facebook have boomerang policies. I don't know if you know about this, but basically if you come back within four to six months, To Facebook or Google, they will just restart the clock on your equity package. So you won't lose your vested equit…”
Assertion Supported
Jagannathan: Facebook's top 50 advertisers contribute under 4% of revenue
“The top 50 advertisers of Facebook contributed less than four percent of Facebook's revenues.”
Assertion Supported
Pai: General Atlantic and Facebook Led Unacademy's $110M Round at $510M Post
“The last round was the general Atlantic and Facebook led a hundred and ten million dollar round, which valued them at five hundred and ten million post.”
Assertion Partly supported
Google and Facebook capture over 80% of India's $3B digital ad market
“So it's like about, I think two and a half, 3,000,000,080 percent sitting with Google, Facebook, maybe slightly even more.”
Assertion Supported
Reddy: Orkut was the dominant social network prior to Facebook's India expansion
“It wasn't a public company, and by the way, Orkut was the dominant social media network at that time as well. It was not Facebook”