The Argument Index
Debate potential by speaker, the highest-scored statement each year, and the companies with the most bearish calls on record. All of it clickable, all of it playable.
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Average debate potential by speaker
All 169 guests with 5 or more scored statements, ranked. 16 more have fewer than 5, too few for a fair average, and the host is scored on his own page. Sort or filter below.
| # | Person | Avg debate potential | Statements scored |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Friedberg Founder & CEO, The Production Board | 3.27 | 22 |
| 2 | Alex Karp Co-founder & CEO, Palantir Technologies | 3.12 | 17 |
| 3 | Constantine Bueller Partner, Sequoia Capital | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | Patrick McGee Features Writer, Financial Times | 3 | 11 |
| 5 | Roy Lee Co-founder & CEO, Cluely | 2.97 | 29 |
| 6 | Kian Sadeghi Founder & CEO, Nucleus Genomics | 2.91 | 23 |
| 7 | Andy Lowery CEO, Epirus | 2.8 | 5 |
| 8 | Xander Oltmann Founder and General Partner, Commodity Capital | 2.78 | 9 |
| 9 | Brian Singerman Partner Emeritus, Founders Fund | 2.72 | 18 |
| 10 | Delian Asparouhov Partner, Founders Fund | 2.72 | 43 |
| 11 | Ben Miller Co-Founder and CEO, Fundrise | 2.65 | 20 |
| 12 | Alex Kolicich Founding Partner & CIO, 8VC | 2.65 | 46 |
| 13 | Kaz Nejatian CEO, Opendoor | 2.63 | 35 |
| 14 | Shensi Ding Co-Founder and CEO, Merge | 2.62 | 8 |
| 15 | Augustus Doricko Founder & CEO, Rainmaker | 2.57 | 7 |
| 16 | Tony Kim Managing Director, BlackRock | 2.56 | 16 |
| 17 | Keith Rabois Managing Director, Khosla Ventures | 2.56 | 32 |
| 18 | Naveen Rao Co-founder and CEO, Unconventional AI | 2.53 | 17 |
| 19 | Shaun Maguire Partner, Sequoia Capital | 2.53 | 17 |
| 20 | Bucky Moore Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners | 2.52 | 21 |
| 21 | Bradley Tusk CEO, Tusk Holdings | 2.5 | 22 |
| 22 | Jonathan Siddharth Co-founder & CEO, Turing | 2.5 | 18 |
| 23 | Navin Chaddha Managing Partner, Mayfield Fund | 2.5 | 22 |
| 24 | Steve Simoni Co-Founder and President, Allen Control Systems | 2.5 | 6 |
| 25 | Mark Suster Managing Partner, Upfront Ventures | 2.5 | 20 |
| 26 | David Weisburd Co-Head of Venture Capital, 10X Capital | 2.5 | 20 |
| 27 | Samir Vasavada Co-Founder & CEO, Vise | 2.47 | 19 |
| 28 | Chris Power Founder & CEO, Hadrian | 2.47 | 45 |
| 29 | Mark Pincus Founder & Executive Chairman, Zynga | 2.47 | 17 |
| 30 | Deedy Das Partner, Menlo Ventures | 2.45 | 22 |
| 31 | Richard Socher Founder & CEO, You.com | 2.45 | 20 |
| 32 | Trae Stephens Partner, Founders Fund | 2.43 | 23 |
| 33 | Emil Michael Under Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense | 2.43 | 14 |
| 34 | Cyan Banister General Partner, Long Journey Ventures | 2.43 | 28 |
| 35 | Rodrigo Liang Co-Founder and CEO, SambaNova Systems | 2.42 | 26 |
| 36 | Packy McCormick Founder & Writer, Not Boring | 2.42 | 36 |
| 37 | Hemant Taneja CEO & Managing Director, General Catalyst | 2.42 | 24 |
| 38 | Palmer Luckey Founder, Anduril Industries | 2.41 | 27 |
| 39 | Jack Altman General Partner, Benchmark | 2.4 | 20 |
| 40 | Michael Barton Sector Head, Coatue | 2.39 | 18 |
| 41 | Philip Ehrenstein Founder & CEO, Dirac | 2.38 | 8 |
| 42 | Ev Randle General Partner, Benchmark | 2.37 | 19 |
| 43 | Alex Blania Co-Founder & CEO, Tools for Humanity | 2.35 | 17 |
| 44 | Bryan Kim Founder, Mido Capital | 2.35 | 23 |
| 45 | Lucy Guo Founder & CEO, Passes | 2.35 | 23 |
| 46 | Soren Monroe-Anderson Co-Founder and CEO, Neros Technologies | 2.35 | 40 |
| 47 | Tanay Tandon Co-Founder & CEO, Commure | 2.34 | 29 |
| 48 | Yaz El-Baba Partner, Emergence Capital | 2.33 | 9 |
| 49 | Morgan Housel Partner, The Collaborative Fund | 2.33 | 24 |
| 50 | Michael Mignano General Partner, Union Square Ventures | 2.32 | 25 |
| 51 | Ben Lamm Co-founder and CEO, Colossal Biosciences | 2.32 | 28 |
| 52 | Sebastian Siemiatkowski CEO, Klarna | 2.31 | 13 |
| 53 | Ashlee Vance Founder & Host, Core Memory | 2.3 | 10 |
| 54 | Andrew Feldman Co-Founder and CEO, Cerebras Systems | 2.29 | 14 |
| 55 | Pete Shadbolt Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder, PsiQuantum | 2.29 | 49 |
| 56 | Leif Abraham Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Public | 2.29 | 24 |
| 57 | Mark Bhargava Managing Director, General Catalyst | 2.25 | 24 |
| 58 | Brian Armstrong Co-Founder & CEO, Coinbase | 2.25 | 53 |
| 59 | Kyle Harrison General Partner, Contrary | 2.24 | 51 |
| 60 | Max Levchin Founder & CEO, Affirm | 2.24 | 29 |
| 61 | Arielle Zuckerberg General Partner, Long Journey Ventures | 2.23 | 22 |
| 62 | Jason Fiedler Venture Advisor, Left Lane Capital | 2.23 | 26 |
| 63 | Gordon Ritter Founder & General Partner, Emergence Capital | 2.22 | 18 |
| 64 | Dylan Fox Founder & CEO, AssemblyAI | 2.21 | 19 |
| 65 | Alex Bouaziz Co-Founder and CEO, Deel | 2.2 | 25 |
| 66 | Jaimin Rangwalla CIO of Public Investments, Coatue | 2.2 | 40 |
| 67 | Brett Adcock Founder & CEO, Figure AI | 2.2 | 54 |
| 68 | Nikesh Arora Chairman & CEO, Palo Alto Networks | 2.2 | 25 |
| 69 | Elad Gil Founder, Gil Capital | 2.19 | 31 |
| 70 | Isaiah Taylor Founder and CEO, Valar Atomics | 2.19 | 16 |
| 71 | Adam Foroughi Co-Founder & CEO, AppLovin | 2.19 | 21 |
| 72 | Thomas Laffont Co-Founder & Senior Managing Director, Coatue Management | 2.18 | 11 |
| 73 | CJ Desai President and CEO, MongoDB | 2.18 | 11 |
| 74 | Matt Miller Managing Partner & Founder, Grey Rock Investment Partners | 2.18 | 11 |
| 75 | Gilly Raanan Founder, Cyberstarts | 2.17 | 18 |
| 76 | Joshua Steinman Co-Founder & CEO, Galvanick | 2.17 | 6 |
| 77 | Lee Jacobs Investor, Long Journey Ventures | 2.17 | 6 |
| 78 | Brian Schimpf Co-Founder and CEO, Anduril Industries | 2.16 | 19 |
| 79 | Jacob Peters Co-founder & CEO, Superpower | 2.16 | 19 |
| 80 | Gil Feig Co-Founder & CTO, Merge | 2.15 | 13 |
| 81 | Steve Huffman Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Reddit | 2.15 | 27 |
| 82 | Grace Isford Partner, Lux Capital | 2.13 | 15 |
| 83 | Scott Wu Co-founder & CEO, Cognition | 2.12 | 16 |
| 84 | Alex Levy Representative, Atmo | 2.12 | 8 |
| 85 | David Senra Host, Founders Podcast | 2.11 | 28 |
| 86 | Christian Garrett Partner, 137 Ventures | 2.11 | 28 |
| 87 | Adam Goldstein Founder & CEO, Archer Aviation | 2.1 | 29 |
| 88 | Sridhar Ramaswamy CEO, Snowflake | 2.1 | 21 |
| 89 | Dylan Field Co-founder and CEO, Figma | 2.1 | 21 |
| 90 | Hunter Walk Partner & Co-Founder, Homebrew | 2.1 | 20 |
| 91 | Apoorv Agrawal Partner, Altimeter Capital | 2.09 | 32 |
| 92 | Dino Mavrookas Co-Founder and CEO, Saronic Technologies | 2.08 | 50 |
| 93 | Greg Little Senior Counselor, Palantir Technologies | 2.06 | 18 |
| 94 | Jeff Morris Jr. Founder & Managing Partner, Chapter One | 2.06 | 16 |
| 95 | Tomasz Tunguz Founder & General Partner, Theory Ventures | 2.05 | 21 |
| 96 | Drew Oetting Co-Founder and President, 8VC | 2.04 | 26 |
| 97 | Michel Del Buono Chief Investment Officer, a16z Perennial | 2.04 | 54 |
| 98 | Danielle Strachman Co-founder & General Partner, 1517 Fund | 2 | 18 |
| 99 | Gabe Pereyra Co-Founder & President, Harvey | 2 | 21 |
| 100 | Winston Weinberg Co-founder and CEO, Harvey | 2 | 21 |
| 101 | Hannan Happi Co-Founder and CEO, Exowatt | 2 | 15 |
| 102 | Cameron McCord Co-Founder and CEO, Nominal | 2 | 21 |
| 103 | Tarek Mansour Co-founder & CEO, Kalshi | 2 | 26 |
| 104 | John Coogan Co-Host, TBPN | 2 | 25 |
| 105 | Jared Hecht Venture Partner, Union Square Ventures | 2 | 11 |
| 106 | Bridgit Mendler CEO & Co-Founder, Northwood Space | 2 | 22 |
| 107 | Doug Busch Co-founder and Chief Logistics Officer, Saronic | 2 | 5 |
| 108 | Alfred Lin Partner & Co-Steward, Sequoia Capital | 1.95 | 37 |
| 109 | Ken Venner Chief Technology & Product Officer, Senra Systems | 1.95 | 19 |
| 110 | Justin Fishner-Wolfson Co-Founder & Managing Partner, 137 Ventures | 1.95 | 20 |
| 111 | Qasar Younis Co-founder & CEO, Applied Intuition | 1.94 | 16 |
| 112 | Scott Nolan Founder & CEO, General Matter | 1.94 | 18 |
| 113 | Adam Bry Co-Founder & CEO, Skydio | 1.94 | 32 |
| 114 | Tom Mueller Founder, CEO & CTO, Impulse Space | 1.93 | 14 |
| 115 | Minn Kim Founder, Lighthouse | 1.93 | 14 |
| 116 | Arun Mathew Partner, Accel | 1.92 | 13 |
| 117 | Jackie Reses Chair & CEO, Lead Bank | 1.92 | 13 |
| 118 | Alex Cohen Founder & CEO, Hello Patient | 1.91 | 11 |
| 119 | Billy Talheimer Co-Founder and CEO, REGENT | 1.9 | 10 |
| 120 | Eric Romo President & COO, Impulse Space | 1.9 | 20 |
| 121 | Rune Kvist Co-Founder and CEO, AIUC | 1.9 | 10 |
| 122 | Alex Immerman General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1.89 | 27 |
| 123 | Sophia Amoruso Founder & Managing Partner, Trust Fund | 1.89 | 18 |
| 124 | David Baszucki Co-founder & CEO, Roblox | 1.89 | 19 |
| 125 | Eric Crispin Partner, Altimeter Capital | 1.88 | 17 |
| 126 | Sam D'Amico Founder & CEO, Impulse Labs | 1.88 | 24 |
| 127 | Henry Ward Co-founder & CEO, Carta | 1.87 | 23 |
| 128 | Miles Clements Partner, Accel | 1.86 | 7 |
| 129 | Mitch Lee Co-founder & CEO, Arc Boats | 1.86 | 7 |
| 130 | Leigh Marie Braswell Partner, Kleiner Perkins | 1.86 | 21 |
| 131 | Chris Josephs Co-Founder, Autopilot | 1.86 | 28 |
| 132 | Rohit Badangay Co-founder & CEO, Zamp | 1.86 | 21 |
| 133 | Geoffrey Woo Co-founder & Managing Partner, Anti Fund | 1.85 | 13 |
| 134 | Pedro Franceschi Co-Founder and CEO, Brex | 1.85 | 20 |
| 135 | Paul Klein Founder & CEO, Browserbase | 1.85 | 33 |
| 136 | Jack Sharky Co-Founder and CTO, Whop | 1.85 | 26 |
| 137 | Philip Clark Partner, Thrive Capital | 1.84 | 31 |
| 138 | Sir Peter Beck Founder & CEO, Rocket Lab | 1.84 | 61 |
| 139 | Dan Wright Co-Founder and CEO, Armada | 1.83 | 23 |
| 140 | Vlad Tenev Co-Founder & CEO, Robinhood | 1.83 | 24 |
| 141 | David Ulevitch General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 1.82 | 17 |
| 142 | Art Levy Chief Business Officer, Brex | 1.8 | 45 |
| 143 | Justin Lopas Co-Founder and COO, Base Power Company | 1.79 | 19 |
| 144 | Israel "Izzy" Slotowicz Founder & CEO, Craft | 1.77 | 35 |
| 145 | Molly Alter Partner, Northzone | 1.77 | 26 |
| 146 | Jake Paul Co-Founder, Anti Fund | 1.75 | 8 |
| 147 | Stephen Slattery Head of Product, Nominal | 1.75 | 8 |
| 148 | Jeffrey Katzenberg Founding Partner, WndrCo | 1.71 | 7 |
| 149 | Keller Rinaudo Cliffton Co-Founder & CEO, Zipline | 1.71 | 45 |
| 150 | Doug Bernauer Founder & CEO, Radiant | 1.71 | 21 |
| 151 | Claire Zhao Investor, Lightspeed | 1.69 | 13 |
| 152 | Teresa Carlson Global Head of Public Sector, Anthropic | 1.69 | 13 |
| 153 | Jordan Noone General Partner, Embedded Ventures | 1.68 | 19 |
| 154 | Zach Dell Co-Founder and CEO, Base Power | 1.67 | 15 |
| 155 | Ryan Serhant Founder & CEO, SERHANT. | 1.67 | 24 |
| 156 | Michael Hurlston President & CEO, Lumentum | 1.67 | 12 |
| 157 | Willem Sundblad Co-founder & CEO, Oden Technologies | 1.67 | 12 |
| 158 | Peter Ludwig Co-founder & CTO, Applied Intuition | 1.6 | 10 |
| 159 | Zach Schendel | 1.6 | 15 |
| 160 | Vibhav Ganesh Director of Engineering, Shield AI | 1.6 | 10 |
| 161 | Nick Abouzeid Co-Founder and CEO, Rivet | 1.59 | 22 |
| 162 | Dylan Diamond Co-Founder & CEO, Saturn | 1.55 | 20 |
| 163 | John Maslin Co-Founder & CEO, Vulcan Elements | 1.53 | 30 |
| 164 | Jordan Black Co-Founder & CEO, Senra Systems | 1.5 | 24 |
| 165 | Dara Khosrowshahi CEO, Uber | 1.38 | 16 |
| 166 | John Andrew Founder & CEO, Wander | 1.31 | 29 |
| 167 | Scott Morton Founder and CEO, Revel | 1.22 | 9 |
| 168 | Eric Allison Chief Product Officer, Joby Aviation | 1.12 | 8 |
| 169 | Matt Grimm Co-Founder & COO, Anduril Industries | 1.08 | 13 |
Companies
The most bearish calls
Debate potential is an AI score of how much a statement invites disagreement. Bearish counts tally what was said about a company on the show; they describe the conversation, not the company. Every count opens to the exact tape. full disclaimer →
All 209 companies, funds and products with at least one bearish claim on the record.
Highest debate potential, by year
2026
Adcock claims Figure's internal AI team was running circles around OpenAI
“It got to a point where we were just like, our team internally that was designing these models were running circles around OpenAI. We were just way better at this. And we were better about testing on the robots, training the models, like all, all of it.”
2025
2024
Asparouhov calls progressive San Francisco liberals among the most racist people
“Progressive SF liberals are actually some of the most racist people that I've ever met, you know, on the planet.”
Kolicich: Expect an AI crash and market retrenchment within two years
“I believe in two years where everyone's gonna say, oh, you know, we thought it would solve everything and it's all a very limited number of use cases. It's complete hype. And, you know, we'll probably see a bit of a crash and we'll see a retrenchment in AI.”