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Joshua Steinman

Co-Founder & CEO, Galvanick · 1 appearance on the record.

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Joshua Steinman is the co-founder and CEO of Galvanick, an industrial cybersecurity company protecting critical infrastructure. Previously, he served as Senior Director for Cyber Policy on the National Security Council and helped conceptualize the Department of Defense's Defense Innovation Unit.

11statements → 7claims → 4claims resolved → 75%fully supported → 4.09/5average certainty → 2.82/5average debate potential → 16said about them ↓

3 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

7 assertions · 3 opinions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 3 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 Joshua 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

Assertion Supported
Steinman: Twitter buyout documents revealed foreign intelligence operated inside the company
“I mean, you can read the papers that came out of like the Twitter buyout, you know, transition to X, and they basically are like, yeah, we had foreign intel services, foreign governments, like operating inside You know, ex formerly known as Twitter.”
Joshua Steinman Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 9:02 Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Steinman: A cyberattack destroyed the Iranian steel industry in one day
“So I think two, three years ago someone, I don't know who literally destroyed the Iranian steel industry in like one day.”
Joshua Steinman Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 5:43 Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world.

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Joshua Steinman on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Joshua Steinman said on TBPN that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Steinman: 100 foreign sabotage teams are actively operating on US soil
“No, there's absolutely foreign, foreign sabotage teams operating on U S soil. A hundred percent. My actual number is somewhere around a hundred teams. My guess is that and the question is like, you could break that down into, you know, what types anyway.”
Joshua Steinman Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 4:58 Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world.
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Steinman: CCP intelligence officials likely access DJI's US topography data
“Like if you don't think that senior CCP Intel officials have the ability to just walk into DJI headquarters and be like, give me everything you know about the topography of the United States. Like, you're smoking crack. They probably have access to it right no…”
Joshua Steinman Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 12:08 Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world.
Opinion
Steinman: ByteDance's prize is algorithm control to influence US youth
“Yeah, they absolutely want to retain control of the algorithm because that's like the prize is the ability to like inject ideas into the youth of the United States or elsewhere.”
Joshua Steinman Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 14:38 Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world.
Assertion Supported
Steinman: Twitter buyout documents revealed foreign intelligence operated inside the company
“I mean, you can read the papers that came out of like the Twitter buyout, you know, transition to X, and they basically are like, yeah, we had foreign intel services, foreign governments, like operating inside You know, ex formerly known as Twitter.”
Joshua Steinman Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 9:02 Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world.
Assertion Supported
Steinman: Chinese tech companies are legally required to be dual-use
“Chinese companies are legally required to be dual use. Like, they've architected their entire economy to serve the Chinese Communist Party.”
Joshua Steinman Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 10:39 Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world.
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Steinman: Chinese robotics firms are replicating DJI's US market takeover playbook
“They are absolutely taking that playbook and trying to replicate it as broadly as possible.”
Joshua Steinman Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 11:41 Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world.
Opinion
Steinman: US should guarantee demand for American chips over subsidizing supply
“Yeah, I love it. I love it. I think, you know, right now I've heard a lot of strange things about how chips act has played out. I haven't followed it as closely as if I was You know, some analysts covering the stuff for the banks, but I mean, it was one of the…”
Joshua Steinman Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 19:08 Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world.
Opinion
Steinman: Forest management is solved and Europe avoids catastrophic fires through it
“Forestry management is a solved problem, right? Let these guys get out there. The Europeans laugh at us. The president talks about this all the time, but it is literally true. They don't have these types of catastrophic forest fires because they have good fore…”
Joshua Steinman Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 20:34 Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world.
Assertion Contradicted
Steinman: A cyberattack destroyed the Iranian steel industry in one day
“So I think two, three years ago someone, I don't know who literally destroyed the Iranian steel industry in like one day.”
Joshua Steinman Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 5:43 Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world.
Assertion Supported
Steinman: Digitizing industrial infrastructure has created major exploitable vulnerabilities
“You know, we've digitized the industrial world, and yet there's, it has created these huge vulnerabilities That have been exploited and some of that stuff makes its way out into the public.”
Joshua Steinman Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 4:23 Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world.
Insight
Steinman: Industrial cyber attacks take months and leave detectable breadcrumbs
“But these operations take days, weeks, months, sometimes years to sort of like get into a network and then find your way to the systems that you want to take over. And the whole point is like every step of the way of those types of operations leaves breadcrumb…”
Joshua Steinman Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 6:34 Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world.

The other half of the tape: Joshua Steinman's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 14 times in 2 episodes on TBPN. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most John Coogan 14

Statements about Joshua Steinman, by other people (2)

Insight
Hays: Marketers should repeat their core messages fifty times more
“And it's a lesson of any, you know, even you can apply to any single, whatever marketing messages you have, say it 50 times more than you already are. And it'll be a lot more effective.”
Jordi Hays Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 2:40:48 How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
Insight
Marketers Worry Too Much About Repetitive Messaging
“It's an example of like marketers that think like, oh, like we're being too repetitive with this messaging where now I just associate Steinman with winning and being committed to winning. And it makes me want to back whatever he does and being optimistic.”
Jordi Hays Nov 6, 2024 ▶ 2:16:41 Trump's Secret Career (ep7)

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world. Mar 17, 2025 12m
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