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Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Mar 2025
Anduril leadership frequently warns investors about fake primary allocations
“We've been long time and real investors and they have tweeted a ton about fake allocations in their primary rounds being marketed to investors.”
Christian Garrett Mar 27, 2025 ▶ 3:38 Christian Garrett (137 Ventures) on Investing and Markets
Assertion Open · timeframe Mar 2028
Doricko: Rainmaker supplies water more cheaply than desalination
“We can bring water more cost-effectively than even desalination.”
Augustus Doricko Mar 8, 2025 ▶ 5:41 Augustus Doricko talks Cloud Seeding, Christianity, The Gundo Boys and the future of Rainmaker.
Assertion Open · timeframe Sep 2026
Coogan: Claude Fable 5.1 achieved highest-ever AI index score
“Fable 5.1 get the highest result ever on the index. The scores also have Opus five, which got 63, and Fable, which got a 62.”
John Coogan Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 4:07 Model Mayhem, GPT-6 Astra, Why Nvidia Bought Hugging Face | Diet TBPN
Assertion Open · timeframe Jun 2026
Baker: Over 10,000 Employees Bought Shares During the SpaceX IPO
“I think another really underappreciated thing about the SpaceX IPO is that over 10,000 SpaceX employees bought on the IPO.”
Gavin Baker Jun 15, 2026 ▶ 14:51 Gavin Baker: SpaceX Might Be the Greatest Company of All Time
Assertion Open · timeframe Apr 2027
US government establishes task force to prevent AI model distillation
“There is new news from Michael Kratzios that the government seems to be taking anthropic and opening eyes messaging around distillation very seriously and is setting up a task force.”
John Coogan Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 10:11 Thoma Bravo Loses Medallia, OpenAI Drops ChatGPT 5.5, Bob Iger Returns | Diet TBPN
Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 2031
Novak: Arm expects to reach $15 billion in revenue by 2031
“This new move, they're expecting to ramp revenue. To fifteen billion dollars by 2031.”
Turner Novak Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 0:55 Arm’s $15B Chip Bet, Sanders & AOC vs Datacenters, Meta & YouTube Lose Trial | Diet TBPN
Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Hays: Meta plans stablecoin payments comeback in second half of year
“Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is planning a stablecoin comeback in the second half of this year, eyeing a third party vendor as a key partner to power payments.”
Jordi Hays Feb 24, 2026 ▶ 26:20 Kim K's New Energy Drink, Citrini Discourse Rages On, the $100B Meta-AMD Deal | Diet TBPN
Assertion Open · timeframe Jan 2029
Hayes: Startup Flip Introduces Gambling Mechanics Into Consumer Debt
“They're bringing gambling into credit cards, bringing gambling into debt.”
Jordi Hays Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 24:02 The Jamie Dimon Apple Card, Greenland Ideas, WB-Paramount, TBPN x Vanity Fair | Diet TBPN
Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Coogan: Apple approved a multi-billion dollar 2026 cloud AI model budget
“Apple has already improved, approved a multi-billion dollar budget for two, 2026 for running its own models via the cloud, but plans For that beyond remain, for beyond that remain murky.”
John Coogan Jul 1, 2025 ▶ 11:01 Apple Considers New AI partnership
Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Coogan: Blue Origin Pivots Pad Strategy to Return New Glenn This Year
“To return to flight this year, we're not rebuilding the same pad. We're going straight to a horizontal vertical hybrid con ops. We are, we had already been developing for our nine X four new Glenn launch vehicle using existing infrastructure, skipping a new tr…”
John Coogan Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 8:34 Rocket Lab Enters SpaceX Arena, Meta’s Prediction Market, America’s Tech Wishlist | Diet TBPN
Assertion Open · timeframe Mar 2027
Epstein: Venezuela Produces Under 1M Barrels Daily and Cannot Scale Fast
“Venezuela is less than a million. It's just, I mean, it's beyond crazy. It's just impossible. It's not like Venezuela has the ability to just increase their oil production by any significant amount in the near future.”
Alex Epstein Mar 10, 2026 ▶ 9:44 FULL INTERVIEW: Alex Epstein on The Oil Market’s Biggest Geopolitical Threat
Assertion Open · timeframe Feb 2029
Patel: Anthropic separates inference and training across different chip clusters
“You know, you do your inference on one set of chips and you do your training on another set of chips. So like, Anthropic does this.”
Dylan Patel Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 15:25 FULL INTERVIEW: Dylan Patel Says We’re Still Underestimating AI
Assertion Open · timeframe Sep 2026
Ohanian: Stoke Space's First Launch Will Be at Cape Canaveral This Summer
“And the first launch is going to be Cape Canaveral this summer.”
Alexis Ohanian Oct 13, 2025 ▶ 4:30 Alexis Ohanian on TikTok's Frozen Innovation, Gaming Reddit & Sports vs AI
Assertion Open · timeframe Apr 2028
Hudson: Newegg uses multi-touch attribution to pay both creators and Honey
“Newegg is using a multi-touch attribution system in any click system from company Howell, and it is effectively, like, it's Newegg uses it so that it can pay both the creator upstream and Honey.”
Ryan Hudson Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 22:13 HONEY Founder Responds to MegaLag -- Ryan Hudson on TBPN
Assertion Open · timeframe Jan 2028
Coogan: Stargate Campuses Will Be Built for Distributed AI Training
“Even more impressive, all these data center campuses will be, will continue to be built out with the aim of distributed training.”
John Coogan Jan 25, 2025 ▶ 1:32:22 DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Jan 2028
Coogan: Brad Jacobs passed on an oil and gas rollup over ESG
“He surveyed all the different industries for AI resistance and also just economic opportunity. The one that he wanted to go with was oil and gas, but he couldn't, but the ESG thing was too overbearing.”
John Coogan Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 1:27:05 Insurance Companies Explained (How they actually work)
Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 2027
Coogan: Hustlers University demotes non-paying members to wins-only channel
“If you don't pay your bill, they don't kick you out entirely. They just demote you to a status where you can only see the wins channel. So you're only seeing other dudes being like, made my first million, made my first 100,000.”
John Coogan Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 2:13:08 How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
Assertion Open · timeframe Nov 2025
Google Gemini uses SynthID detection to identify origins of AI-generated images
“If you put the photo into Gemini Gemini will tell you, if you say, is this AI, Gemini will tell you, yes, according to the SynthID water molecule detection tool, this image was generated in whole or in part with Google AI.”
John Coogan Nov 25, 2025 ▶ 21:53 Reverse Engineering 200 AI Startups, Nucleus Genomics Controversy, Drone Hunting | Diet TBPN
Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Jan 2025
Coogan: Sonos Admitted It Missed the Smart Speaker Wave Until Mid-2016
“Sonos had never considered building its own voice assistant, and the smart speaker era took them by surprise. McFarlane later admitted that they were late to recognize the impact of voice in mid-twenty 16.”
John Coogan Jan 16, 2025 ▶ 25:50 What's Happening at SONOS (Total Disaster)
Assertion Open · timeframe Feb 2029
Coogan: OpenAI's Super Bowl ad featured its actual robotics team
“So that, that robotics stuff was actually Easter eggs of the robotics team at open AI. Like they just brought the cameras in and filmed their own team.”
John Coogan Feb 10, 2026 ▶ 11:41 Super Bowl Ad Reactions, ChatGPT launches ads, Jordi vs France | Diet TBPN
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