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 1 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 Not checkable as stated
Desai: Hyperscalers are turning away top-50 enterprise customers due to capacity limits
“These hyperscalers, some of them, are running out of capacity, and they're running out of capacity, so this large customer in Texas, speaking to them, they have really good partnership with one of the hyperscalers. They wanted to move more workloads in cloud, …”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Desai: Large Paris Enterprise Refuses Public Cloud Over French Sovereignty Rules
“Yesterday I was with a customer, and they said, hey, I just want to tell you, we are not, and it's a large customer based in Paris, we are not going to move our workloads to public cloud. We are going to run it on-prem. Data sovereignty is highest priority. Fr…”
Assertion Supported
Desai: Coding agents almost always run on proprietary closed models
“Like, for coding agents, ok, you have Cloud Code, you have Codex, there is a Grok build, many options. Cursor has other options available. So what you find is, in those scenarios, you almost always use See or hear close models, not open source models. Propriet…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Desai: A major US telecom was refused regional cloud capacity
“The other, you know, large telecommunications company in the United States was also similar. They had one particular hyperscaler, and they said this hyperscaler refused to give them additional regional capacity that they needed. So they signed with the second …”
Assertion Open · timeframe Jul 2026
Desai: ElevenLabs runs over 50 million agents on MongoDB
“Out of London, and they have north of fifty million agents, depending on when you look at it, all running on MongoDB.”
Assertion Supported
Desai: ServiceNow nears $15B revenue after Luddy founded it bankrupt at 50
“ServiceNow is now, you know, closer to a fifteen billion dollar revenue company, but he created that company when he became bankrupt at age of 50. Just a few days before 50.”