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John Epstein

Chief Strategy Officer, WaveClear · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jonathan Epstein is the founding CEO of digital video game media outlet GameSpot and former president of GameSpy Industries. He later led international expansion and marketing as CMO and SVP of International at Sentient Technologies before taking executive roles at Platform.ai and WaveClear.

10statements → 9claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 3.7/5average certainty → 1.5/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated → 1said about them ↓

2 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 6 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 8 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 6 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 John 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
Epstein: Sentient runs the first fully AI-traded hedge fund
“One of Senian's products through a subsidiary called Senian Investment Management is a hedge fund that is, we think the first Fully AI-traded hedge fund.”
John Epstein May 21, 2017 ▶ 12:37 666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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75% certainty 3
100% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

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

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 John Epstein on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything John Epstein said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Epstein: Sentient runs the first fully AI-traded hedge fund
“One of Senian's products through a subsidiary called Senian Investment Management is a hedge fund that is, we think the first Fully AI-traded hedge fund.”
John Epstein May 21, 2017 ▶ 12:37 666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Epstein: AI will make the world unrecognizable within 5 to 10 years
“The world will not be recognizable from a technology standpoint 10 years from now, and some would even say five.”
John Epstein May 21, 2017 ▶ 19:05 666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Epstein: GameSpot was the first professional online game review site
“So GameSpot was the first really professional online reviews site for games.”
John Epstein May 21, 2017 ▶ 3:48 666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein
Assertion Supported
Epstein: GameSpot sold for ZDNet stock peaking at about $45 million
“We sold we sold it for stock in CD net. So at the peak, it was worth about forty five million as an exit.”
John Epstein May 21, 2017 ▶ 7:35 666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein
Assertion Partly supported
Epstein: GameSpy sold to IGN for around $61 million
“That one was around sixty one million dollar. If I recall.”
John Epstein May 21, 2017 ▶ 10:00 666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Epstein: Sentient runs AI across millions of CPUs and thousands of GPUs
“It's able to run, you know, AI problems across millions of CPUs and thousands of GPUs using a proprietary distributed computing middleware layer.”
John Epstein May 21, 2017 ▶ 11:36 666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Epstein: Sentient Ascend has about 25 paying customers
“We have we launched in September. We have about 25 paying customers about the same number in trial.”
John Epstein May 21, 2017 ▶ 15:40 666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Epstein: Sentient Ascend averages $8,000 to $10,000 a month per customer
“So they range anywhere from 3000 a month to 30,000 a month. And so, you know, the average is sort of probably in the eight to 10.”
John Epstein May 21, 2017 ▶ 15:52 666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Epstein: Sentient Ascend has had zero customer churn
“No one has churned yet.”
John Epstein May 21, 2017 ▶ 16:13 666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein
Disclosure
Epstein: Sentient Technologies has raised $143 million to date
“So far to date has been a hundred and forty three million dollars.”
John Epstein May 21, 2017 ▶ 17:40 666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder May 21, 2017 13m
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