Khosla said his selection of 100 Khosla Ventures portfolio companies did not include successes such as Square, Stripe or Nutanix.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
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
Judged as of 2020-02-24. True: the Khosla Ventures video or compilation of about 100 portfolio companies Khosla referred to leaves out Square, Stripe and Nutanix. Mostly true: all three are left out, but a minor detail is off (e.g. the video has somewhat more or fewer than 100 companies). Mixed: one or two of the three named companies appear in the video. Mostly false: two of the three appear. False: all three appear in the video. For context, each company's status as a Khosla Ventures portfolio company or investment can be noted, but the test is whether it was left out of the video.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (6)
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E1 Vinod Khosla - Wikipedia Wikipedia
“In 2019, Khosla presented "Amazing: What KV Founders are Doing," which described 100 portfolio companies reinventing areas such as health, infrastructure, robotics, transportation, augmented reality and artificial intelligence.”
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E2 Vinod Khosla - Wikipedia Wikipedia
“Fintech was also an area of focus with early investments in Square, Stripe and Affirm, which all resulted in large returns for Khosla Ventures.”
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E3 Khosla Ventures - Wikipedia Wikipedia
“The firm closed $3.1 billion in new capital across three funds as of November 2023”
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E4 Vinod Khosla - Wikipedia Wikipedia
“In 2019, Khosla presented "Amazing: What KV Founders are Doing," which described 100 portfolio companies reinventing areas such as health, infrastructure, robotics, transportation, augmented reality and artificial intelligence.”
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E5 Vinod Khosla - Wikipedia Wikipedia
“Fintech was also an area of focus with early investments in Square, Stripe and Affirm, which all resulted in large returns for Khosla Ventures.”
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E6 Vinod Khosla - Wikipedia Wikipedia Own record
“"Amazing: What KV Founders are Doing". Khosla Ventures. 20 May 2019.”
Reasoning
E1/E4 confirm that a 2019 Khosla Ventures presentation, "Amazing: What KV Founders are Doing", described 100 portfolio companies, and E6 dates it to 20 May 2019. None of the evidence lists which companies the video featured. E2/E5 show that Square and Stripe were Khosla Ventures investments, but that does not say whether they appeared in the video. Nothing provided shows whether Square, Stripe or Nutanix were left out.
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Vinod Khosla, “Khosla said his selection of 100 Khosla Ventures portfolio companies did not include successes such as Square, Stripe or Nutanix.” (said 24 February 2020). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_e24e693e508d, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_e24e693e508d
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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