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1,531 assertions1,370 insights672 disclosures255 opinions103 predictions47 what-ifs

predictions → 4 held up 1 didn’t hold up 0 partly held up
assertions → 387 supported 68 contradicted 100 partly supported
Star Treatment Does prominence change the questions? Every guest, plotted. prominence vs. host pushback Supercuts Didn’t hold up · Held up · Said with certainty exact-quote reels The Argument Index Debate potential by speaker, and the companies with the most bearish calls. debate potential, ranked The Numbers Museum Every figure ever claimed, checked where possible. 1,239 figures Entities Every company, fund and idea the show has opinions about, sources attached. 5,104 on the record The Calls Dated predictions and their status, on one timeline. 4 open The Pulse What the Valley talks about, year by year, since 2022. who said it first Straight Answers Who answers the question asked, measured. Every moment timestamped and playable. 41 questions not answered directly The Wisdom Wall The lessons worth keeping. No fortune cookies. 1,370 insights The Graph Four years of people, companies and ideas as one map. explore connections Changed Positions Same person, opposite position. Both tapes, side by side. 0 on record Speaking Style Measured from raw, unedited recordings only. 0 speakers scored

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Assertion Contradicted
Loiacono: Competing PBMs Faked Mandatory Federal Compensation Disclosures in 2023
“23 people needed to start reporting this information, people being pharmacy benefit managers and administrators like ourselves, Had to start reporting this information. And what we realized is people were faking it. They either weren't doing it or they were pr…”
AJ Loiacono Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 32:22 He spent $0 on marketing—raised $400M at $3.25B valuation | Judi Health
Assertion Partly supported
Amazon threatened to boycott Columbia unless they suspended Roy Lee
“An Amazon executive sees this. They send a letter to Columbia saying, essentially, you need to expel this kid, or we're never going to hire you from your school anymore, and it's, like, a very thinly veiled threat. Columbia sees the letter. They loop me into a…”
Roy Lee Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 14:26 He got kicked out of Harvard—then grew to $5M ARR in just 3 months. | Roy Lee, Co-Founder of Cluely · PMF Show
Assertion Partly supported
Wipro cut its HR team by 45% using Ema's AI agents
“For Wipro, for example, they report from thousand people. They have been able to first, you know, reduce the time taken for any of these requests. These are not just questions, requests from five to seven days to like few seconds to minutes. Right. So that's a…”
Surajit Chatterjee May 11, 2026 ▶ 9:32 Coinbase's ex-CPO bet on AI agents before ChatGPT—now he's closing 7-figure Fortune 500 deals. | ... · PMF Show
Opinion
Anderson: Heavily funded legal AI tools Harvey and Legora are GPT wrappers
“Harvey and Lagora were GPT wrappers when they started, and I think they're basically still GPT wrappers today. I think they know that that's a problem, by the way, that that doesn't provide a very significant moat, and they're trying to become more like system…”
Ryan Anderson Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 50:24 He made 0 sales for the first 8 months. Now he does $200M+ ARR. | Ryan Anderson, Founder of Filevine · PMF Show
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dheeraj Pandey claims no AI company currently has true multi-tenant architecture
“There is no AI company that's multi-tenant right now. There is no AI company that's multi-tenant.”
Dheeraj Pandey Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 37:56 He built a $20B public company, left—then raised a $100M Series A. | Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of N... · PMF Show
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2028
Robinson: 6sense will eventually sell below its liquidation preference
“Like what's going to happen to them is the same thing that happened to Infusionsoft. They will eventually sell for less than their preferred because that's the only path unless they can reinvent the, you know, what are they trying to do?”
Adam Robinson Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 8:47 He grew to $25M in ARR and $14M in annual profits—with no funding & no dilution. | Adam Robinson,... · PMF Show

How the calls resolved the full record →

Assertion Supported
Lingelbach was a Stanford PhD student under Fei-Fei Li and Jiajun Wu
“I, so I was a PhD student with Fei Fei Li and Jia Jun Wu at Stanford.”
Michael Lingelbach Aug 18, 2025 ▶ 6:32 His Video AI app hit $10M+ ARR in Months—with 0 outbound sales. | Michael Lingelbach, Founder of ... · PMF Show
Assertion Contradicted
Wille: No VCs or angels would touch tech in 2001–2002
“There was not a single VC or angel out there that wanted to touch anything tech in 2001, 2002.”
Allan Wille May 15, 2022 ▶ 5:37 How to Find Product Market Fit | Allan Wille, Founder of Klipfolio · PMF Show
Assertion Supported
Mappedin won a US Homeland Security contract for firefighter indoor mapping
“We submitted this RFP for Homeland Security and we won. Canadian company won a US defense contract to build and to adapt our indoor mapping tools for that.”
Hongwei Liu Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 29:11 Hongwei Liu, Founder of MappedIn | How to Find Product Market Fit · PMF Show
Assertion Contradicted
Sherman: Mass-market multi-brand retailers operate on sub-5% gross margins
“Retailers Operate on super low gross margins. Like most mass market, multi brand retailer is like sub five percent gross margins.”
Alex Sherman Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 9:56 He tried to return $200K to investors 30 days in—then exited to Microsoft 5 years later. | Alex S... · PMF Show

Open predictions the full timeline →

342days Walker: Carta will likely stop reporting on AI as a separate category by 2027 Peter Walker · prediction date: 2027-08-21 1277days Yoo: Cloud marketplace GMV will cross $100B in next 5 years Jon Yoo · prediction date: 2030-03-13 1501days Varma: 401(k) alts will grow private assets to $25T-$30T in 4-5 years Amar Varma · prediction date: 2030-10-23 3450days Russ d’Sa: Voice will become the primary computer interface in 5-10 years Russ d’Sa · prediction date: 2036-02-23

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Ordered by full support rate, then by supported count. Minimum three resolved. Partly supported claims count as resolved but not as fully supported, same as everywhere on the ledger.

PersonEpsStatementsSupportedPartly supportedContradictedFull support rate
Chris Slowe 1 13 6 0 0 100%
Andrew Rubin 1 27 4 0 0 100%
Dax Dasilva 1 18 4 0 0 100%
Marty Kausas 1 28 4 0 0 100%
Bhaskar S. 1 14 3 0 0 100%
Russell D'Sa 0 0 3 0 0 100%
Simon Eskildsen 1 15 3 0 0 100%
Guy Podjarny 1 14 3 0 0 100%

From the Wisdom Wall all quotes →

“what we found is like again and again, you want to talk to roughly 30 people to like validate an idea or invalidate an idea. 10 is not enough, because you can always find 10 friendlies or 10…”

“you truly find the, like, core of the product market fit once you sell hundred customers. It doesn't mean, you know, that it's, like, everybody's super happy and everybody's, like, at a, at a huge,…”

“healthcare is highly consolidated. CVS, Cigna, and United Healthcare. Three publicly traded companies, all of which are I'm gonna say Fortune eight, Fortune 10, Fortune 14, respectively, in that…”
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