Straight Answers

An LLM assessed 896 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 →

16%of assessed questions not answered directly · how? → 42playable exchanges ↓ 1with none identified → 163people measured →

Every one of the 168 people on the record is accounted for: 2 carry a full rate (8 or more assessed questions on raw tape), 161 more have their questions counted (33 of them with at least one not answered directly; too few raw questions for a fair percentage, edited feed included), and the remaining 5 never took a direct question in any tape we hold: compilations, panels and cameo appearances leave nothing to assess.

Elad Gil 3 of 10 questions
30%
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Elad Gil: every exchange, playable

The question 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.

Not addressed ▶ 28:03

“Or we have this other project led by Kyle Fish, our model welfare lead. Where Claude can actually opt out of conversations if it's going too far in the wrong direction.”

answered: “What aspects of that should a company actually adjudicate?”

Not addressed ▶ 6:52

“We remember what it's like to have all bucks stop with you. And if there's a way that we can apply that level of decisiveness here, And accelerate teams through like the otherwise, like, you know, design by committee bullshit that kills a lot of companies, then like that's a net positive, right?”

answered: “The other piece of buying in companies is sort of integrating different systems and platforms.”

Redirected ▶ 8:18

“How do we make sure this American stack is dominating that market share of tokens inference? Very good method.”

answered: “one other thing that you didn't mention, I feel, is a cultural exportation”

All speakers

All 2 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
Elad Gil Founder, Gil Capital 30% 3 10 4.0
Mustafa Suleyman CEO, Microsoft AI 0% 0 9 4.5

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).

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