The Ledger

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why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

Prediction Held up
Wong: Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft will clone OpenClaw in ten months
“My prediction is this within n number of months, less than 10 Entropic, now, now Open Claw become part of OpenAI, so that becomes the OpenAI part of this game. Entropic, Google, Microsoft, Everybody will have their equivalent of open, open call framework.”
Sze Wong Mar 3, 2026 ▶ 1:34 OpenClaw is the Most Dangerous AI Tool Ever Built
Assertion Supported
Gisenau: Microsoft launched a free app competing with ChitChattr
“We had an incident about a week ago or so where Microsoft have launched a free app, a portion of which competes with an element of our application.”
Hilton Gisenau Mar 26, 2021 ▶ 27:20 Microsoft Launched a Free App That Competes With Ours
Assertion Supported
Schmidt: Most HR Tech Companies Lack Resources to Train Custom AI
“And the truth is that most companies who are in the HR tech space don't have the resources that someone like open AI has to train their content. And to train the AI. They just seem to, they don't have a billion dollars from Microsoft.”
Matthew Schmidt Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 38:38 People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For
Assertion Supported
Druckman: Bill Gates kept a year of payroll to protect early hires
“In the beginning, Bill Gates hired his friends. That was who worked for him pretty much his friends. And he would think about the prospect of not being able to make payroll to his friends who had given up other careers to come and work there. So he said he mad…”
Angela Druckman Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 17:35 Infinite Money Made Her Client Worse at Shipping Than Startups
Assertion Supported
Gisenau: Microsoft Teams takes zero cut of app revenue
“On the Microsoft side, there's no charging model. There's no fee model at all. On the one hand, that's kind of a little bit of a negative. There's no charging model built in, so there's no model natively in the platform to charge customers. The positive of tha…”
Hilton Gisenau Mar 26, 2021 ▶ 12:54 Microsoft Launched a Free App That Competes With Ours
Assertion Supported
Stancil: Yammer's $1.2B exit matches current Series A valuations
“Yammer was bought for 1.2 billion dollars, I think which at the time seemed like a lot now is, you know, the valuations of companies in their A rounds.”
Ben Stancil Jun 22, 2021 ▶ 4:17 The $1.2B Yammer Exit That Funded an $80M Company
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