Shaan Puri

Co-Host, My First Million · 1 appearance on the record.

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Shaan Puri is the co-host of the business podcast My First Million and an early-stage startup investor. He previously served as the CEO of Bebo and co-founded the crypto newsletter The Milk Road.

6statements → 3claims → 2claims resolved → 3.83/5average certainty → 2.17/5average debate potential → 3said about them ↓

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

1 prediction · 2 assertions · 1 insight · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 1 names 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 Shaan 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

Puri: ESPN, UFC, Adobe, IBM, and Cisco use Blab

“We've got people as, you know, we've got people who are just sitting in their basement, and they're nobodies, but all the way up to reality TV stars, ESPN, UFC, Adobe, IBM, Cisco, big brands that have also come on and use the platform.”

Shaan Puri Mar 4, 2016 ▶ 8:31 Blab goal is 7% week over week growth. Here's how the Founder will do it with Shaan Puri CEO of Blab Episode 185

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up

Puri: Blab's audience will be larger than any cable TV network

“And so what we're going to do is we're going to gather the biggest audience we can. And I believe that that will end up being bigger than Any cable TV network out there.”

Shaan Puri Mar 4, 2016 ▶ 9:31 Blab goal is 7% week over week growth. Here's how the Founder will do it with Shaan Puri CEO of Blab Episode 185

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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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 Shaan Puri on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

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

Prediction Didn’t hold up

Puri: Blab's audience will be larger than any cable TV network

“And so what we're going to do is we're going to gather the biggest audience we can. And I believe that that will end up being bigger than Any cable TV network out there.”

Shaan Puri Mar 4, 2016 ▶ 9:31 Blab goal is 7% week over week growth. Here's how the Founder will do it with Shaan Puri CEO of Blab Episode 185

Insight

Shaan Puri: Winning business plan competitions provides false hope

“We started winning all these business plan competitions, which gives you know, a bit of false hope that your business plan is any good.”

Shaan Puri Mar 4, 2016 ▶ 2:04 Blab goal is 7% week over week growth. Here's how the Founder will do it with Shaan Puri CEO of Blab Episode 185

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Puri: Blab DAUs spend over an hour daily watching live video

“The average daily active users watching for just over an hour a day which is one of the metrics that gave me the most faith. Cause that means they're using this like a replacement for TV or Netflix in many cases. So about an hour a day for every daily active u…”

Shaan Puri Mar 4, 2016 ▶ 3:47 Blab goal is 7% week over week growth. Here's how the Founder will do it with Shaan Puri CEO of Blab Episode 185

Disclosure

Blab employees pay $10 to a swear jar for sending internal emails

“My company has a zero email policy, so if you email somebody in our company, you got to put 10 dollars in the swear jar.”

Shaan Puri Mar 4, 2016 ▶ 15:33 Blab goal is 7% week over week growth. Here's how the Founder will do it with Shaan Puri CEO of Blab Episode 185

Assertion Supported

Puri: ESPN, UFC, Adobe, IBM, and Cisco use Blab

Shaan Puri Mar 4, 2016 ▶ 8:31 Blab goal is 7% week over week growth. Here's how the Founder will do it with Shaan Puri CEO of Blab Episode 185

Disclosure

Blab targets 7% week-over-week growth in daily watched minutes

“The watched minutes, so the amount of time people spend watching Blab every day. We want that to increase seven percent week over week.”

Shaan Puri Mar 4, 2016 ▶ 11:32 Blab goal is 7% week over week growth. Here's how the Founder will do it with Shaan Puri CEO of Blab Episode 185

The other half of the tape: Shaan Puri's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 2 episodes on Top Founders. every mention, with the transcript →

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