ClaimsVinod Khosla

“My presentation from our @khoslaventures CEO Summit on tips and advice for pitching to VCs.”

Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures founder, on X 27 June 2019 Post by @vkhosla on X, 2019-06-27 (X)

Factual Economics and markets

Vinod Khosla gave a presentation at the Khosla Ventures CEO Summit with tips and advice for pitching to VCs.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

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What would count as true or false

Judged as of 2019-06-27. True: Vinod Khosla gave a presentation at a Khosla Ventures CEO Summit, and its content was tips or advice on pitching to venture capitalists, as shown by published slides (e.g. on SlideShare), a video or event records. Mostly true: the presentation exists and covers pitching to VCs, but a minor detail differs (e.g. it was given at a different Khosla Ventures event, or co-presented). Mixed: a Khosla presentation on pitching exists, but it is unclear whether it was given at the CEO Summit, or it covered mainly other topics. Mostly false: Khosla gave a CEO Summit presentation, but it was not about pitching. False: no such presentation was given by Khosla.

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Evidence (2)

  1. E1 CEO Summit Khosla Ventures Own record

    “A Glimpse Into The Future: 2019 Keynote Discussion Sam Altman and Vinod Khosla”

  2. E2 Pitch the way VCs think SlideShare · 22 June 2015

    “Also, see KV consumer fundraising deck checklist”

Reasoning

E1, the Khosla Ventures CEO Summit page, lists a 2019 keynote discussion between Sam Altman and Vinod Khosla but does not describe it as a talk on pitching. E2 is a SlideShare deck titled "Pitch the way VCs think" that refers to a "KV consumer fundraising deck checklist". The quoted text does not show that Khosla presented the deck or that it was given at the CEO Summit. Neither item establishes that Khosla gave a CEO Summit presentation on pitching to VCs, so the claim cannot be settled.

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Vinod Khosla, “Vinod Khosla gave a presentation at the Khosla Ventures CEO Summit with tips and advice for pitching to VCs.” (said 27 June 2019). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_3e902ae6e802, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_3e902ae6e802

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