Sahil Bloom
Co-Host, Where It Happens · 34 appearances on the record.
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Sahil Bloom is an entrepreneur and former co-host of the Where It Happens podcast. He shares frameworks on personal annual reviews, reflection, and business strategy.
144statements → 69claims → 37claims resolved → 57%fully supported → 3.81/5average certainty → 2.08/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 45said about them ↓
21 supported 10 partly supported 6 contradicted 4 not yet assessed 28 not checkable as stated how the 69 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
17 predictions · 52 assertions · 28 opinions · 30 insights · 17 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 69 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 37 are resolved, 4 are not yet assessed, and 28 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.
The record, in short
What the tape says about how Sahil argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.
Their most notable supported claim
Bloom: FTX reached agreement to acquire BlockFi for up to $240M
“FTX is now, you know, under a definitive agreement to acquire block five for like, I don't really care how, you know, the CEO positioned it, you know, with the revolving line of credit, that's not really enterprise value. It's not like buying the equity, but l…”
Their most notable contradicted claim
Bloom: Twitter's $25B Buyout Debt Carries Massive Interest Obligations
“There's twenty-five billion dollars of debt sitting on the business now, and that debt has interest rates on it that aren't super low. And in an environment where so far the, you know, the baseline rate is rising right now, it's actually going to be a shitload…”
Expressed certainty vs assessment result
weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet
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Everything Sahil Bloom said on the Startup Ideas Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
Bloom: Twitter's Ad Stack Underperforms Rivals in Direct Response
“Their ad stack sucks. They serve up really bad ads. There's no signal, really bad conversion. Like it's just a bad ad stack. And so when advertisers are comparing it to like Snapchat, Instagram, you know, TikTok, all the other places they can advertise, it's n…”
Bloom: Twitter's $25B Buyout Debt Carries Massive Interest Obligations
“There's twenty-five billion dollars of debt sitting on the business now, and that debt has interest rates on it that aren't super low. And in an environment where so far the, you know, the baseline rate is rising right now, it's actually going to be a shitload…”
Bloom: Large-Scale DAO Governance Fails During Rapid Wartime Decision-Making
“When you are in wartime and having to make dramatic, you know, bold decisions quickly, the idea of going and asking, you know, a hundred million users to vote on something and Trusting that it's going to be the right long-term decision when they're operating w…”
Bloom: I never plan to sell assets, only borrow against them
“I'm investing anything I buy right now. I'm never planning to sell. Like I'm going to borrow against it in the future. I hope but I'm never going to sell it.”
Bloom: I will keep buying Shopify even if it falls to $350
“I'm perfectly comfortable just like, you know, buying more and more Shopify as it goes from 6:40 where it is right now to like, it could be at three 50 and I'd still be buying on the way down. Right. Cause I believe it's going to be worth a whole lot more in t…”
Sahil Bloom: Founders no longer need to live in the Bay Area
“If you want to be a founder or you want to go build something, you don't have to be in the Bay area in the way that you had to, I think, 1015 years ago.”
Earned Media From Crashing Your Site Beats Perfect Uptime
“I personally think that the earned media of saying, oh, we crashed the site with our super bold ad that we ran is more valuable than the site being up and people being able to like do something on the site when they go to it, because I think it extends the hal…”
Bloom: My strategy is to never sell and borrow against holdings
“Like I, my active strategy in markets is I literally buy with never intending to sell. And I intend to, Take loans against holdings and never sell so that I can not have to pay taxes in the future pro tip.”
Bloom: Open IP models will generate more memes and win long-term
“My gut tells me that more open leads to more memes, which will continue to drive growth of the ecosystem, and, I think that that will win in the long run.”
Bloom: Only 2% of Spotify artists earn over $1,000 annually
“Only two percent of Spotify artists are earning more than 1000 dollars a year, and one 10th of one percent.1%, are earning over a hundred K per year.”
Bloom: Ignore Weaknesses And Double Down On Core Strengths
“You're much better off, and it's like, maybe it's contrarian advice, and it's a hot take, but, like, you're much better off just saying fuck it to the stuff you're bad at, and, like, I'm probably not gonna ever be amazing at those things I'm bad at. Let me jus…”
Bloom predicts many tech jobs will return to being in-person
“I think that a lot of tech jobs are going to go back to being in person versus this, like, you know, assumption that everything is going to be a remote forever.”
Bloom: Passive AI recommendations will actively increase overall societal happiness
“And part of me thinks that there's actually like a increase in overall societal happiness from having things that we love surface to us without us actually doing it. And this is like an unlock for that. If you actually have AI that suddenly is able to, maybe n…”
Bloom: Alexis Ohanian’s VC firm uses internal software Cerebro to gamify value-add
“Alexis Ohanian has at seven, seven, six, they have this internal proprietary software they built out called Cerebro. I think it's called like Star Trek reference that manages like all of their internal stuff. And one of the portals is this like value add, like…”
Bloom: Twitter stock will reach $200 with better direct response ads
“The stock is gonna be 200 dollars if you just drive more direct response ads.”
Bloom: Fyre Festival was a great concept despite failed execution
“Fyre Festival was a great idea. I would give him credit for it. He's a, like, fraudster and, you know, did a lot of things that are really bad, but the idea of it, if he had executed, it would have been dope.”
Sahil Bloom argues large-scale event companies are not venture-backable
“It's not a venture bet. Like, I just, I don't understand it as a venture investment, though.”
Bloom: Web3 drives a massive generational wealth transfer that incumbents oppose
“I mean, there's a massive generational transfer of wealth that's happening right now, and the incumbents don't like it. Insiders don't love the fact that anybody can get onto these on rails and operate in this system, but it's such a cool thing.”
Bloom Pitched a Web3 DAO Plan to Buy the X Games
“So I pitched an idea, basically, to web three-ify the X Games, to go and acquire it, form a DAO to go and buy the X Games and then completely reimagine it, both in a web two sense with more traditional media, cultural moments creating the, like, drive to survi…”
A Full DAO Buyout of the X Games Is Not Viable
“In a, you know, fully Dow approach, you raise fifty million dollars or a hundred million dollars, whatever the number is, and you go and just buy the entirety of the X Games. Why do I think that's challenging here? As much as I love that as a cultural moment f…”
DAO Co-Ownership of a Major IP Franchise Is Huge for Web3
“I really do think that web three and having a Dow or something that looks like a Dow acquiring a share of a large operating business with the potential to be a billion dollar plus IP franchise is a huge, huge step forward for the space.”
Bloom plans to form DAO to buy the X Games
“I want to create a DAO. You read my mind. I want to create a DAO to buy the X Games. You buy all the IP of the X Games and basically completely reimagine the X Games for a Web three and crypto enabled world.”
Sahil Bloom: Angie's List provides a spam-heavy, uncontrolled customer experience
“My experience with it is that it sucks. My experience with it is that you go, like, I was trying to find someone to clean our house, and I went and plugged in information on the house, whatever, and basically what happened was I got a bunch of spam calls, beca…”
Sahil Bloom: Corporate preferred moving vendors charge massive markups on employee relocations
“When we went and got quotes from those preferred providers, it was literally like 25 grand to move cross country. We went and got an outside quote, not a preferred provider, and it was like 10. And so literally those people are just providing you these massive…”
The other half of the tape: Sahil Bloom's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 40 times in 17 episodes on the Startup Ideas Podcast. 5 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Greg Isenberg 27Nick Huber 7Zach Pogrob 2Justin Welsh 1Julien Smith 1Erik Torenberg 1Andrew Wilkinson 1
Statements about Sahil Bloom, by other people (5)
Isenberg: Top writers like Sahil Bloom make $5M a year
“Like, you used to get paid 50,000 dollars to write, and now the greatest writers, Sahil Blooms and the Nick Hubers, are getting paid five million dollars a year to write.”
Traditional publishing functions like VC, requiring massive hits to avoid failure
“I think, you know, he, cause I'm assuming he got a like a publishing deal. Totally different. It's like venture backed versus bootstrap. Totally different set of expectations, right? He, his book needs to sell a million copies or it's a failure, right? Like VC…”
Isenberg: Dropped $30,000 monthly podcast ad revenue to zero
“This podcast was making 30,000 dollars of revenue a month. When my co-host and I Sahil Bloom split up, I was like, I don't want to do ads. So I removed all the ads and I went from 30,000 dollars a month to zero.”
Morenstein: Strongly critical responses signal top fan behavior
“It took me a long time to realize it, but like, that's like one of your top fans. That is the behavior of literally a top fan.”
Isenberg: The '100K Club' Twitter chat sparked massive audience growth
“But yeah, we created this group chat. We called it initially the a hundred K club. It was like peak COVID. You know, summer, summer, I think, 2020 spring and summer 2020. And the idea was, how do we how do we build big audiences? We all had 10 to 15,000 Twitte…”
Every mention by year
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2025 4 mentions in 1 episode
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2022 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
Appearances (34)
Played on the show (1)
Episodes where a recording of Sahil Bloom was played rather than Sahil taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.
| Episode | Date | On tape | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keeping it Real with Danny Trinh | Oct 11, 2022 | 2m | clip played |