why aren't all 6 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
Khan: Ola was funded before Uber existed; it was not a copycat
“I was the first investor in Ola. Very interesting investment in Ola. A lot of people don't know this, but, ah, the Ola investment was actually a pre Uber investment. Uber didn't actually exist when we invested in Ola. So, a lot of people always think Ola was a…”
Assertion Supported
Uber built the world's first machine learning feature store
“We had worked on the feature store at Uber, and we had built the world's first feature store, and we literally coined the term.”
Assertion Partly supported
Rajeev: Uber's code was written while founders stayed in Varkala, Kerala
“One of the founder of Uber, he visited Varkala, and his team stayed for several weeks. From Varkala, that is one of the famous beach of Kerala. From Varkala, they wrote this program of Uber.”
Assertion Partly supported
Dübendorfer: Top co-founded startup generates $70M revenue serving OpenAI and Uber
“Currently not, no, they're still all there, and the biggest one has 300 employees makes seventy million revenues with a SaaS model, and serves the likes of OpenAI, and Uber, and Nasdaq, and UPS in brand management”
Assertion Supported
India's $60B bus market dwarfs the $10B car ride-hailing market
“Chalo is doing exceptionally well, managing over 10, 12,000 buses already. A huge space in India. Buses are a sixty billion dollar market as opposed to, you know, cars, which Uber or Nola, which is like a ten billion dollar market.”
Assertion Contradicted
Ganesh: Uber launched with a 2.4 virality coefficient from referral programs
“Uber, for example, is known to have a virality coefficient when they launched of 2.4 because of the referral programs they had with drivers and they are with riders.”