Jonathan Herzog

Founder & General Partner, The CEO Cohort · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jonathan Herzog runs The CEO Cohort, coaching tech founders and startup CEOs on scaling and growth. He previously served as an early staffer on Andrew Yang's 2020 presidential campaign and ran as a 2020 Democratic primary challenger in New York's 10th Congressional District.

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2 predictions · 9 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 11 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 8 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

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Jonathan Herzog claims 94% of Americans would benefit from VAT-funded UBI

“If you spend less than a 120,000 dollars a year on stuff, Then you are so much better off, and that's basically 94% of all people in the United States, because there's money coming in from oxygen in the system, from all the transactions, all the production, al…”

Jonathan Herzog May 18, 2020 ▶ 1:05:05 Jonathan Herzog: His Plan To Get 30k Votes to Beat Jerry Nadler for NY Congressional Seat, YangGang Strategy and Freedom Dividend

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Jonathan Herzog claims SEO disinformation generated 100,000 false headlines post-launch

“Immediately thereafter, a targeted Systematic disinformation campaign was launched, where if you Google my name, Jonathan Herzog, on a computer and hit the news tab, you will see 100,000 of false headlines improperly indexed through SEO manipulation to myself,…”

Jonathan Herzog May 18, 2020 ▶ 25:27 Jonathan Herzog: His Plan To Get 30k Votes to Beat Jerry Nadler for NY Congressional Seat, YangGang Strategy and Freedom Dividend

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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 Jonathan Herzog on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

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Assertion Contradicted

Jonathan Herzog claims SEO disinformation generated 100,000 false headlines post-launch

Jonathan Herzog May 18, 2020 ▶ 25:27 Jonathan Herzog: His Plan To Get 30k Votes to Beat Jerry Nadler for NY Congressional Seat, YangGang Strategy and Freedom Dividend

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Jonathan Herzog claims opponent Lindsay Boylan's ballot signatures were 80% invalid

“So we actually found about an 80% invalidity rate going line by line because most of them were collected in the Bronx or Queens.”

Jonathan Herzog May 18, 2020 ▶ 39:59 Jonathan Herzog: His Plan To Get 30k Votes to Beat Jerry Nadler for NY Congressional Seat, YangGang Strategy and Freedom Dividend

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Herzog: Firms will not rehire furloughed workers post-crisis

“The firms that are, you know, laying off and furloughing tens of thousands of workers they're not going to rehire them, unfortunately, at the end of this crisis.”

Jonathan Herzog May 18, 2020 ▶ 1:00:14 Jonathan Herzog: His Plan To Get 30k Votes to Beat Jerry Nadler for NY Congressional Seat, YangGang Strategy and Freedom Dividend

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Herzog: A 10% VAT would generate $800B annually for US

“So if we pass a 10% value added tax, that on its own conservatively would bring in eight hundred billion annually new revenue into the system.”

Jonathan Herzog May 18, 2020 ▶ 1:02:34 Jonathan Herzog: His Plan To Get 30k Votes to Beat Jerry Nadler for NY Congressional Seat, YangGang Strategy and Freedom Dividend

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Herzog: Andrew Yang was the only 2020 candidate with zero personal attacks

“Andrew was, again, if you look at the data on this, it's shocking. The only candidate who never attacked, never any ad hominems, never any personal attack against any of his competitors or even Trump or anyone who had voted for Trump.”

Jonathan Herzog May 18, 2020 ▶ 19:12 Jonathan Herzog: His Plan To Get 30k Votes to Beat Jerry Nadler for NY Congressional Seat, YangGang Strategy and Freedom Dividend

Assertion Supported

Jonathan Herzog claims 94% of Americans would benefit from VAT-funded UBI

Jonathan Herzog May 18, 2020 ▶ 1:05:05 Jonathan Herzog: His Plan To Get 30k Votes to Beat Jerry Nadler for NY Congressional Seat, YangGang Strategy and Freedom Dividend

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Herzog: Yang's Digital Campaign Was Highly Decentralized Like Trump's

“And then, in, in our case, what was different, and this is actually more paralleling the Trump campaign's kind of digital approach, which was, it was highly, highly decentralized.”

Jonathan Herzog May 18, 2020 ▶ 14:00 Jonathan Herzog: His Plan To Get 30k Votes to Beat Jerry Nadler for NY Congressional Seat, YangGang Strategy and Freedom Dividend

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Herzog: 15,000 mail votes needed to defeat Jerry Nadler in NY-10

“In order to win the seat and unseat Jerry Nadler, we need 15,000 votes by mail by June 23rd.”

Jonathan Herzog May 18, 2020 ▶ 34:40 Jonathan Herzog: His Plan To Get 30k Votes to Beat Jerry Nadler for NY Congressional Seat, YangGang Strategy and Freedom Dividend

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Andrew Yang started 2020 presidential fundraising from his personal Gmail contacts

“Well, so what's incredible, Nathan, is that, again, we, our candidate literally started fundraising from his Gmail address book.”

Jonathan Herzog May 18, 2020 ▶ 9:39 Jonathan Herzog: His Plan To Get 30k Votes to Beat Jerry Nadler for NY Congressional Seat, YangGang Strategy and Freedom Dividend

Assertion Partly supported

Herzog: UBI passed the U.S. House twice in 1971 under Nixon

“This actually passed the U.S. House of Representatives twice in 1971 and almost became law under Nixon.”

Jonathan Herzog May 18, 2020 ▶ 51:36 Jonathan Herzog: His Plan To Get 30k Votes to Beat Jerry Nadler for NY Congressional Seat, YangGang Strategy and Freedom Dividend

Disclosure

Herzog: Yang campaign had no Iowa team members in late 2018

“But at that point, there were no such thing as precinct captains. There were no such thing as even other team members in, in, in Iowa.”

Jonathan Herzog May 18, 2020 ▶ 4:45 Jonathan Herzog: His Plan To Get 30k Votes to Beat Jerry Nadler for NY Congressional Seat, YangGang Strategy and Freedom Dividend

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Jonathan Herzog claims $18 in digital ad spend reaches 1,943 local Democrats

“18 dollars puts our ads in front of 1943 registered Democrats in the district.”

Jonathan Herzog May 18, 2020 ▶ 1:15:58 Jonathan Herzog: His Plan To Get 30k Votes to Beat Jerry Nadler for NY Congressional Seat, YangGang Strategy and Freedom Dividend

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Jonathan Herzog: His Plan To Get 30k Votes to Beat Jerry Nadler for NY Congressional Seat,	May 18, 2020	51m

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