Straight Answers
An LLM assessed 2,029 question → answer exchanges, the host's own answers included. Speaker names were hidden during assessment. Each exchange was marked answered, partly, redirected or not addressed, with a quote as its source. Every exchange below is timestamped and plays. How it works →
These readings are observational: the transcript shows whether the question was answered directly, whatever the reason. It is an AI reading of a public exchange, never a claim about intent, and the tape is one tap away on every row. full disclaimer →
Every one of the 342 people on the record is accounted for: 5 carry a full rate (8 or more assessed questions on raw tape), 297 more have their questions counted (62 of them with at least one not answered directly; too few raw questions for a fair percentage, edited feed included), and the remaining 40 never took a direct question in any tape we hold: compilations, panels and cameo appearances leave nothing to assess.
No needle for Hari Menon: fewer than 8 assessed questions on raw tape, and a percentage on a sample that small would mislead. Their counts are real: 2 not answered directly in 6 assessed questions.
Hari Menon: every exchange, playable
The question Siddhartha asked, then the AI assessment note from the answer. Tap to play the moment. Not addressed = the question was not engaged; redirected = acknowledged, then steered elsewhere.
“And what about the people that you hired? Were you able to tune out that this person is good for now, but he or she will not stay?”
answered: “Attitude is a very big criteria for us. Very big criteria.”
“And in 2006, you exited the business profitably. What, what made you come back into the business again in 2010?”
answered: “The reason we came back is I need to go back to 99”
All speakers
All 5 people with 8 or more assessed questions on raw tape. Click a name to see their exchanges. highest rate none identified small samples
| Person | Not answered directly (%) | Redirected + not addressed | Questions | Argument clarity /5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harish Bhat Former Brand Custodian, Tata Sons | 10% | 1 | 10 | 4.4 |
| Siddhartha Ahluwalia Managing Partner, Neon Fund | 7% | 2 | 28 | 4.1 |
| Karthik Chakkarapani CIO, Zuora | 0% | 0 | 11 | 4.3 |
| Sanjeev Sanyal Member, Economic Advisory Council to the PM | 0% | 0 | 9 | 4.3 |
| Prashant Ganti | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.3 |
Percentages come from raw unedited recordings only: produced podcast audio has tangents and stumbles cut in the edit, which moves the speaker up by about 12 percentile points. The small-sample counts include the produced feed. This is a reading of a transcript. It is not an accusation of dishonesty, and there are many good reasons not to answer a question directly (confidential numbers, unreleased products, someone else's news to break).