The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
why aren't all 4 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Strachman: 1517 Fund aims to eventually fund eleven-year-old founders
“And I tell people I want to be funding eleven-year-olds because I think they're incredibly creative and interesting and can be starting things earlier.”
Strachman: Thiel Fellowship team passed on Vitalik Buterin's Ether pre-sale
“Of course, there's Vitalik with Ethereum. He launched the first sale of ether during the fellowship. My colleague, Michael is one of the first people to put a Facebook post out about Ethereum and one of our biggest financial mistakes, but I don't really view i…”
Strachman: Thiel shifted the fellowship focus from broad pursuits to startups
“At one point, even with the fellowship, like we went from, okay, it's not a startup program. And we can have researchers and nonprofit people and startup people. So like a few years later, he's like, well, maybe we should be a startup program.”