Straight Answers
An LLM assessed 938 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 →
Every one of the 195 people on the record is accounted for: 5 carry a full rate (8 or more assessed questions on raw tape), 171 more have their questions counted (16 of them with at least one not answered directly; too few raw questions for a fair percentage, edited feed included), and the remaining 19 never took a direct question in any tape we hold: compilations, panels and cameo appearances leave nothing to assess.
No needle for Harley Finkelstein: fewer than 8 assessed questions on raw tape, and a percentage on a sample that small would mislead. Their counts are real: 2 not answered directly in 6 assessed questions.
Harley Finkelstein: every exchange, playable
The question Greg 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.
“Um, Harley, I'm curious, like, how, how important do you think that is to some of the entrepreneurs that you see in terms of, you know, having a safe spot? Is that, is that key to success?”
answered: “So we're going to jump around timelines a little bit here”
“Where do you think the, the tea space is going? Cause I know you are involved in a tea company and, and next time, well, you're, you can come back on the show anytime you want, but the next time we need to be drinking tea.”
answered: “this is not me trying to, you know, Promote fire belly, but”
All speakers
All 5 people with 8 or more assessed questions on raw tape. Click a name to see their exchanges. highest rate none identified small samples
| Person | Not answered directly (%) | Redirected + not addressed | Questions | Argument clarity /5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Courtney CEO & Co-Founder, AJ&Smart | 11% | 1 | 9 | 4.1 |
| Theo Tabah Co-founder & COO, Late Checkout | 0% | 0 | 8 | 4.2 |
| Michael Shemelis DX Engineer, Convex | 0% | 0 | 10 | 4.2 |
| James Dickerson Founder & CEO, Boring Group | 0% | 0 | 9 | 4.2 |
| Roberto Nickson Founder, Eluna AI | 0% | 0 | 9 | 4.2 |
Percentages come from raw unedited recordings only: produced podcast audio has tangents and stumbles cut in the edit, which moves the speaker up by about 12 percentile points. The small-sample counts include the produced feed. 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).