Straight Answers
An LLM assessed 416 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 230 people on the record is accounted for: 6 carry a full rate (8 or more assessed questions on raw tape), 112 more have their questions counted (22 of them with at least one not answered directly; too few raw questions for a fair percentage, edited feed included), and the remaining 112 never took a direct question in any tape we hold: compilations, panels and cameo appearances leave nothing to assess.
No needle for Martin Shkreli: 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 4 assessed questions.
Martin Shkreli: every exchange, playable
The question 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.
“Should we ban it? Is there an answer?”
answered: “So two awesome, like quick and funny stories.”
“That's kind of what I was getting at. I'm one of my, Very first questions around the, the, the new terminal would just be ingesting and classifying all this data and then just immediately taking action on it without necessarily having a human in the loop, right?”
answered: “one of the fantasies of AGI is that, well, if you do have”
All speakers
All 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordi Hays Co-founder & Co-host, TBPN | 60% | 6 | 10 | 3.6 |
| John Coogan Co-Host, TBPN | 31% | 16 | 51 | 3.9 |
| Delian Asparouhov Partner, Founders Fund | 11% | 1 | 9 | 3.9 |
| Augustus Doricko Founder & CEO, Rainmaker | 11% | 1 | 9 | 4.3 |
| Marc Andreessen Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 10% | 1 | 10 | 4.0 |
| Brian Armstrong Co-Founder & CEO, Coinbase | 0% | 0 | 12 | 4.3 |
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).