ClaimsSam Altman

“YC is hosting a new conference.”

Sam Altman, on X 29 January 2019 Post by @sama on X, 2019-01-29 (X)

Factual Field building and careers

Y Combinator is hosting a new conference (announced January 2019).

Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.

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.

What would count as true or false

True if, around 2019-01-29, Y Combinator had announced a new conference (one it had not held before) that YC itself organised or hosted, shown by a dated YC announcement or blog post or by press coverage. Mostly true if YC announced a new event that matches except for a minor detail (e.g., it was co-hosted, or called a summit or event rather than a conference). Mostly false if the event was an existing recurring YC event that was renamed or rebranded rather than new, or if it was hosted by another organisation with YC only as a sponsor. False if no YC conference was announced or planned at that time.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (3)

  1. E1 YC 120 | Y Combinator Y Combinator · 29 January 2019

    “We’d like to bring 120 of those people together for a weekend conference in Colorado from Friday, April 26 to Sunday, April 28.”

  2. E2 Y Combinator Launches A Conference For Young People To Find 'Future Elon Musks' Forbes · 29 January 2019

    “Called YC 120, the new conference will gather 100 young attendees with 20 more established business and tech leaders for a weekend in late April in Colorado.”

  3. E3 Y Combinator Launches A Conference For Young People To Find 'Future Elon Musks' Forbes · 29 January 2019

    “Y Combinator's taking several steps to make its debut conference more inclusive.”

Reasoning

On 2019-01-29, YC's own blog post (E1) announced a weekend conference, YC 120, to be held in Colorado from April 26 to 28. Forbes reported the same day (E2, E3) that Y Combinator was launching YC 120 as a new conference and called it YC's "debut conference". This shows YC had announced a new conference that it was organising, which meets the criteria for true.

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Sam Altman, “Y Combinator is hosting a new conference (announced January 2019).” (said 29 January 2019). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_cea9d05f43f0, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_cea9d05f43f0

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