Straight Answers
An LLM assessed 210 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 →
Nobody here carries a rate, and that is deliberate: rates are not published without enough raw tape, which means 8 or more assessed questions on raw, unedited recordings, and every Starter Story episode we hold is the produced feed. So this page counts instead of rating. Every one of the 57 people on the record is accounted for: 49 have their questions counted (1 of them with at least one not answered directly), and the remaining 8 never took a direct question in any tape we hold: compilations, panels and cameo appearances leave nothing to assess.
No needle for Starter Story Ledger: every tape we hold is the produced feed, and rates are not published without enough raw tape. So the board below counts exchanges instead of rating them.
All speakers
All 49 people with assessed questions on the record, ranked by how many were not answered directly. Every count comes from the produced feed. Click a name to see their exchanges.
| Person | Redirected + not addressed | Questions | Tape | Argument clarity /5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lane Wagoner Founder & CEO, Boot.dev | 1 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Steven Cravotta Founder, Posted | 0 | 12 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Sarah Pearl Founder, Stella | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Jake Glacer Founder & Developer, Erly | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| An Nial Founder, Agniverse | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈5.0 |
| Cedric Huberge Founder & CEO, Pep AI | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Deven Bhooshan CEO & Co-founder, Supergrow | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Sebastian Georgiou Founder and CEO, Atlas | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Leandro Zubrezki Founder and Developer, Sync2Sheets | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Colin McIntosh Founder & CEO, Sheets & Giggles | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| David Park Founder & CEO, Jenni AI | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Ian Myers Founder & CEO, Oceans | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Blake Anderson Co-Founder, Apex | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈5.0 |
| Julian Nahum SaaS Founder & Developer | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Andre Heckel Jr. | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈5.0 |
| Matt Giovanisci Website Founder | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Tim Stoddart Founder & Operator, Tim Stodz Enterprises | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈5.0 |
| Dickie Bush Co-Founder, Ship 30 for 30 | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈5.0 |
| Thomas Frank Founder & Digital Creator, College Info Geek | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈5.0 |
| Alex Patis General Partner, Riverside Ventures | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈5.0 |
| Alex Lieberman Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Morning Brew | 0 | 6 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Ben Leavitt Founder, FollowBuddy | 0 | 4 | raw | ≈5.0 |
| Maddox Schmidlkoffer Founder, Tallow | 0 | 4 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Katie Keith Co-Founder and CEO, Barn2 Plugins | 0 | 4 | raw | ≈5.0 |
| Romàn Czerny Co-founder and CMO, Gojiberry AI | 0 | 4 | raw | ≈5.0 |
| Lara Acosta Co-Founder, Kleo | 0 | 4 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| George Lampropoulos Founder, WrestleAI | 0 | 4 | raw | ≈5.0 |
| Gil Hildebrand Founder, Subscribr | 0 | 4 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Ania Wysocka Founder & CEO, Rootd | 0 | 4 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Rob Hallam Co-Founder, SuperX | 0 | 4 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Fernando Pessagno Founder, AICarousels & ResumeMaker.online | 0 | 4 | raw | ≈4.5 |
| Jozef Gherman Founder and CEO, StealthGPT | 0 | 4 | raw | ≈5.0 |
| Umberto Mezzadra Founder, Floga | 0 | 2 | raw | — |
| Brian Shin Co-founder, Once | 0 | 2 | raw | — |
| Jonathan Fischner Co-Founder & CEO, ChartDB | 0 | 2 | raw | — |
| Mal Baron Founder & Developer, Prayer Lock | 0 | 2 | raw | — |
| Sam Adeniyi Founder, Algrow | 0 | 2 | raw | — |
| Florin Pop Independent Software Developer & Content Creator | 0 | 2 | raw | — |
| Steph France AI Consultant and Marketing Strategist | 0 | 2 | raw | — |
| Jack Fricks Founder, PostBridge | 0 | 2 | raw | — |
| Dmytro Krasun | 0 | 2 | raw | — |
| David Bressler Founder & CEO, Formula Bot | 0 | 2 | raw | — |
| Karthik Shanadi Co-Founder and CEO, Athlete's Thread | 0 | 2 | raw | — |
| Beau (Bo) Co-founder, Savvy Nomad | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Jeremy Redman Founder, LeadQuest | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Lotz (Lots) Founder | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| Julian Gargicevich Co-Founder and Developer, Gravl | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| John Rush Founder & CEO, MarsX | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
| CJ (Sajilah Mazafar) Founder, CodeGuide | 0 | 1 | raw | — |
The moments, on tape
The question Pat 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.
Every count on this page comes from the produced feed: no raw unedited tape of Starter Story exists in our library. Rates are not published without enough raw tape, so this page counts and shows no percentage. 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).