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Donald Booth

Founder & CEO, American Institute of Non-Destructive Testing-Donald Booth is the founder and CEO of the American Institute of Non-Destructive Testing. After working in the Arctic Circle, he established the institute to address training gaps in skilled trades. · 1 appearance on the record.

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13statements → 6claims → 3claims resolved → 33%fully supported → 3.92/5average certainty → 1.31/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated →

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

6 assertions · 3 insights · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, 2 are not yet assessed, 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 Donald 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
Booth: Only 55-65% finish college, and 40% work in their field
“I think like only 55 or 65% finish college if they go to a four-year, and then within 10 years, only about 40% of them are doing what they went to school for.”
Donald Booth Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 23:24 He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Booth: Front loader heavy equipment operators make $100K annually
“He's running a front loader and making a hundred grand a year and he's in an air conditioned cab and there's a lot of knowledge to moving dirt and moving earth and making it level and operating this equipment.”
Donald Booth Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 23:00 He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point

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 Donald Booth on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Donald Booth said on We Live to Build that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Booth: AINDT income share agreements cap student repayment at 1.5x tuition
“Those are income share agreement companies where you'll never pay more than 1.5 the tuition. Okay. So it's 12,000. The max you'll ever pay back is 18.”
Donald Booth Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 18:04 He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point
Insight
Booth: Skilled trades offer superior demand, pay, and durable skills
“When you get into a skilled trade, the demand is so much higher. The pay is excellent and it's a skill that they just can't take, take from you.”
Donald Booth Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 19:40 He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point
Assertion Contradicted
Booth: Front loader heavy equipment operators make $100K annually
“He's running a front loader and making a hundred grand a year and he's in an air conditioned cab and there's a lot of knowledge to moving dirt and moving earth and making it level and operating this equipment.”
Donald Booth Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 23:00 He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point
Assertion Supported
Booth: Only 55-65% finish college, and 40% work in their field
“I think like only 55 or 65% finish college if they go to a four-year, and then within 10 years, only about 40% of them are doing what they went to school for.”
Donald Booth Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 23:24 He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point
Insight
Booth: Entrepreneurship is like balancing water on a baking sheet
“Whatever you think it's gonna be is not really what it's gonna be, and you're just gonna have to learn. I always kind of equate it to take a cookie sheet or a cooking sheet where you put some water on it and start walking across the room, and you're just const…”
Donald Booth Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 9:06 He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point
Disclosure
Booth: AINDT trains personnel for SpaceX, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin
“We do training for Lockheed Martin, Boeing, SpaceX, Blue Origin you know manufacturing companies across the country, across the world.”
Donald Booth Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 13:27 He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Booth: AINDT achieves a 93% job placement rate for graduates
“We have 93% placement of our graduates”
Donald Booth Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 14:13 He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point
Insight
Booth: Bidding on adjacent trade keywords harms Google Ad quality scores
“And then like on Google ads, if I wanted to try to pull people in that were searching for electrician or welding or HVAC or something very difficult because Google will give you a bad quality score because they'll look at your webpage and say, you don't do any…”
Donald Booth Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 28:13 He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point
Assertion Contradicted
Booth: U.S. and British Royal Air Force use AINDT training
“Creating deeper relationships with the air force and, you know the Royal air force of England orders from us”
Donald Booth Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 34:29 He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point
Disclosure
Booth: Bought a 40-unit hotel to create private NDT student housing
“I bought this 40 unit small hotel out on the town and I closed it down to the public and remodeled it and created the first private student housing complex for non-destructive testing schools.”
Donald Booth Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 40:41 He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point
Disclosure
Booth: Building industry coalition with Boeing to promote NDT careers
“That's kind of one of my missions now, is I'm trying to build a coalition of, I'm not trying to, I am, I've got some, like, some people from Boeing and a few other large corporations that want to get behind this and, ah, you know, spread the word.”
Donald Booth Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 49:58 He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Booth: US NDT training is a niche market with twelve competitors
“There's not a lot, but it's pretty niche business. Maybe a dozen other. Ones that I would consider competitors around the country.”
Donald Booth Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 4:05 He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point
Disclosure
Booth: AINDT charges $12,045 for its full program including student housing
“Back then, I think we were charging them 8000 dollars for the full course. Now we're 12,045, but I have a private student housing included, and a lot of things have grown and everything, obviously, and times and inflation and money.”
Donald Booth Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 16:39 He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point Jul 2, 2024 38m
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