Sam Altman will teach YC's online startup course in 2017.
Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.
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What would count as true or false
True: Sam Altman taught (gave lectures or led sessions in) YC's online startup course (Startup School) in 2017, as shown by the course syllabus, lecture videos or YC announcements. Mostly true: he taught it, but with a minor difference in detail (e.g. he co-led it, or gave only some lectures while being presented as an instructor). Mostly false: he appeared only marginally (e.g. one brief guest appearance), or the course he taught ran only after 2017. False: records show the 2017 course went ahead without Altman teaching it, or the course was cancelled.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 Startup School Online: First Lecture and Speaker List | Y Combinator Y Combinator · 5 April 2017 Own record
“By Sam Altman (YC), Dustin Moskovitz (Asana)”
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E2 YC’s Online Class (Sign up at StartupSchool.org) | Y Combinator Y Combinator · 5 March 2017 Own record
“Some of the guest lecturers include: Alan Kay, Jan Koum (WhatsApp), Patrick Collison (Stripe), Steve Huffman (Reddit), Adam D’Angelo (Quora), Alex Schultz (Facebook),”
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E3 1500+ startups graduate Y Combinator's first online Startup School | TechCrunch TechCrunch · 16 June 2017
“So after the success of Altman’s Stanford online class, YC took its teachings and molded them into a massive open online course (MOOC) called Startup School.”
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E4 Entrepreneurship Goes Massive: Y Combinator Attempts To Scale Its Startup Mentorship Program — Class Central Class Central · 31 July 2018
“The lectures will be recorded from a course that Sam Altman, president of the YC group, teaches at Stanford.”
Reasoning
E1 is YC's April 2017 post titled "Startup School Online: First Lecture and Speaker List". It credits the first lecture to Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz, so Altman gave at least the opening lecture of the 2017 online course, sharing it with Moskovitz. E3, an independent TechCrunch report from June 2017, says the course was built on the teachings of Altman's Stanford class. However, E2's partial list of guest lecturers does not name him, and the evidence does not show him giving the rest of the course, so the verdict is mostly true rather than true.
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Sam Altman, “Sam Altman will teach YC's online startup course in 2017.” (said 1 January 2017). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_5a408dc3850b, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_5a408dc3850b
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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