ClaimsVinod Khosla

“Well, you know look, [we have] plenty of money to invest.”

Vinod Khosla, investor, interview answer 23 December 2010 Vinod Khosla: Searching for the Radical Solution (Scientific American) archived copy

Factual Their own work or organisation

Khosla Ventures has plenty of money to invest and probably made more investments in 2010 than in 2009, and more in 2009 than in 2008.

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Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

Reasoning

Counts of the firm's investments are internal, though databases might partially show them.

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Vinod Khosla, “Khosla Ventures has plenty of money to invest and probably made more investments in 2010 than in 2009, and more in 2009 than in 2008.” (said 23 December 2010). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_ac16a173ac3a, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_ac16a173ac3a

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