why aren't all 57 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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Disclosure
Khalid: Bought Google Stock and Sold Puts, Seeing Further Upside
“I actually bought Google. I was selling puts on Google all through the, all through its rise, and I still think it's got some way to go.”
Assertion Supported
Krishna: Google invested $100M with Social Finance for career impact bonds
“Recently Google put a hundred million dollars into a fund along with Social Finance to set up Career impact bonds, which will allow people to go and acquire some Google certification for free, but have to repay only if they earn more than say, 40,000 dollars a…”
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
Ghosh: US tech firms began shifting core product work to India between 2006-2014
“During my time at Yahoo and LinkedIn, I had fairly large teams sitting in Bangalore and a few, few in Hyderabad. And this was my, the team's reporting that was during 2006 to 2014. And at that time, Google was coming in in a big way. Facebook came a bit later.…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gupta: Route Mobile spent 3.5 years onboarding Google as a client
“So I was working with Google almost seven years back, you know, like, and they say, I want to onboard Google as my customer. So it took almost three and a half years for me to onboard Google as a customer”
Insight
Pratilipi CEO: Long-form text and improving vernacular search drove growth
“Long form text content is like the holy grail of what search generally wants. So I think organic search kind of helped us quite a bit and it kept on improving over a period of time because Google kept on getting better at organic search in Indian languages.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mohapatra: Google balance-sheet investments require strategic alignment and run slower
“Google itself where, at least I was trying to make investments out of, ah, there's always a strategic angle to those investments, so they are slower in process a lot of things have to add up, not just economic, but, you know, like strategic value to the compan…”
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
AltaVista was larger than Google when Majumdar joined as UK COO
“And then I joined AltaVista as employee number three in UK as chief operating officer, and then build the whole team of AltaVista, which at that point in time was a bigger search engine than even Google.”