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| Not researched | Ørsted | Factual | Feb 2014 | Adjusted for impairment losses and provisions for onerous contracts, DONG Energy's ROCE was 6.8% in 2013 compared with -0.9% in 2012. Ørsted · Factual · Feb 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ørsted | Factual | Feb 2014 | DONG Energy's net investments were DKK 5.9 billion in 2013, compared with DKK 13.4 billion in 2012. Ørsted · Factual · Feb 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ørsted | Factual | Feb 2014 | DONG Energy's interest-bearing net debt decreased by DKK 6.2 billion in 2013 to DKK 25.8 billion, 2.2 times EBITDA at end of 2013 versus 4.0 at end of 2012. Ørsted · Factual · Feb 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Ørsted | Not checkable | Feb 2014 | In the coming years, we will be focusing on profitable growth with a view to delivering a satisfactory return on capital employed. Ørsted · Not checkable · Feb 2014 | |
| Unresolvable | Ørsted | Promise | Feb 2014 | DONG Energy's objective is for FFO to be around 30% of adjusted net debt from 2015 onwards. Ørsted · Promise · Feb 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ørsted | Factual | Feb 2014 | DONG Energy realised cost savings of DKK 1.4 billion and turned current earnings from its gas activities from a substantial loss in 2012 to a profit. Ørsted · Factual · Feb 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ørsted | Factual | Feb 2014 | DONG Energy's gross investments in 2013 were DKK 21.2 billion, related primarily to offshore wind activities and oil and gas fields. Ørsted · Factual · Feb 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Ørsted | Factual | Feb 2014 | With divestments exceeding DKK 15 billion and a DKK 13 billion capital injection in early 2014, DONG Energy's financial platform has been significantly strengthened. Ørsted · Factual · Feb 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ørsted | Prediction | Feb 2014 | DONG Energy expects business performance EBITDA of DKK 15-17 billion in 2014. Ørsted · Prediction · Feb 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ørsted | Factual | Feb 2014 | DONG Energy's operating cash inflow increased to DKK 9.7 billion in 2013 from DKK 7.9 billion in 2012. Ørsted · Factual · Feb 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ørsted | Factual | Feb 2014 | The improvement in DONG Energy's 2013 result reflected higher EBITDA, while impairment losses of DKK 5.0 billion still affected the 2013 result. Ørsted · Factual · Feb 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ørsted | Factual | Feb 2014 | The increase in DONG Energy's EBITDA in 2013 over 2012 reflected higher earnings from wind activities, a higher ownership interest in the Ormen Lange gas field, and cost reductions. Ørsted · Factual · Feb 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ørsted | Factual | Feb 2014 | DONG Energy's 2012 EBITDA was adversely affected by provisions for onerous contracts. Ørsted · Factual · Feb 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Ørsted | Not checkable | Feb 2014 | DONG Energy is one of the leading energy groups in Northern Europe. Ørsted · Not checkable · Feb 2014 | |
| Mostly false | Ørsted | Prediction | Feb 2014 | DONG Energy expects net investments for 2014-2015 to be around DKK 30 billion. Ørsted · Prediction · Feb 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ørsted | Factual | Feb 2014 | DONG Energy's return on capital employed was weighed down by DKK 5 billion of impairment losses and improved only to 0.5%. Ørsted · Factual · Feb 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | This may be the largest U.S. subsidy in history, and it was purposely ignored because it is inconsistent with your agenda. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | At Khosla Ventures, we are focused on finding real solutions for energy independence, rather than just pontificating. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | It is unfortunate that stories like yours employ Benghazi-style reporting standards that overshadow the truth. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | You fundamentally do not understand how innovation works Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | This is the result of directly lowered prices, tax breaks and failing to properly price carbon’s negative externalities. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | The pontificators at 60 Minutes, with their agenda-driven bastardization of news reporting, failed to do the most elementary fact checking… Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | The future will run on energy. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Resolved true | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 14 Jan 2014 | Jonathan Silver, former head of the DOE loan program, expects the program to make money rather than be a subsidy. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 14 Jan 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Mostly true | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 14 Jan 2014 | There is $51 billion remaining in DOE loan money. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 14 Jan 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Mostly true | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 14 Jan 2014 | The U.S. Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program has created 55,000 new cleantech jobs. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 14 Jan 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | CBS also chose to air sources who have never looked at the details of a quality venture portfolio. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Mostly true | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 14 Jan 2014 | A substantial portion of DOE loans is allocated to nuclear energy. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 14 Jan 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 14 Jan 2014 | KiOR and Stion refused federal loan awards at Khosla Ventures' recommendation. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 14 Jan 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Own records only | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 14 Jan 2014 | To the best of Khosla's knowledge, more than 90% of funding for the Khosla Ventures cleantech portfolio has come from private sources. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 14 Jan 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Mostly false | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 14 Jan 2014 | Vinod Khosla has not invested over a billion dollars of his own money into cleantech. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 14 Jan 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | Subsidies force innovation into a niche and create dependence on financial incentives that will eventually disappear. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | At Khosla Ventures, we are focused on making big bets to ensure a sustainable future even if some of them fail. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Mostly true | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 14 Jan 2014 | Oil prospecting has a failure rate greater than 55 percent. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 14 Jan 2014 | Technology |
| Own records only | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 14 Jan 2014 | Khosla Ventures strongly opposed Range Fuels' decision to take federal loan money. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 14 Jan 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 14 Jan 2014 | Khosla Ventures invests in companies with high failure probabilities, but its wins far outweigh its losses. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 14 Jan 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | we heard similar things about the difficulty of telecommunications with trillions invested in infrastructure. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | Repeatedly, your story reinforced the 60 Minutes thesis rather than objectively reporting the facts. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Unresolvable | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 14 Jan 2014 | Vinod Khosla has publicly stated he is against corn ethanol and wind subsidies and in favor of reducing solar and biofuel subsidies over time. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 14 Jan 2014 | AI policy and governance |
| Own records only | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 14 Jan 2014 | Khosla Ventures expects 50 percent of its portfolio companies to make money, and its cleantech portfolio is currently profitable. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 14 Jan 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Not researched | Vinod Khosla | Citation | 14 Jan 2014 | The Brookings Institution reports that the clean economy employs over 2.7 million workers. Vinod Khosla · Citation · 14 Jan 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Mostly false | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 14 Jan 2014 | Weeks before the 60 Minutes program aired, View secured an additional $100 million in private funding to ramp production at its Mississippi manufacturing facility. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 14 Jan 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 14 Jan 2014 | Khosla Ventures' returns are significantly above the venture capital average. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 14 Jan 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | We should celebrate these entrepreneurs, not pillory them for fighting entrenched incumbent industries that have political influence and… Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | It is a disservice to disseminate misleading information on the advances in sustainable energy. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | At scale, new technologies must compete with conventional fossil fuels on price and performance Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Unresolvable | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 14 Jan 2014 | The U.S. spent $502 billion subsidizing fossil fuels in 2011. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 14 Jan 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Mostly true | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 14 Jan 2014 | The U.S. DOE loan program has a 97% success rate. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 14 Jan 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | New industries are created by entrepreneurs who don’t necessarily have subject matter expertise when they get started, yet they are still… Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | The errors in your story are numerous. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 14 Jan 2014 | Khosla Ventures does not believe in subsidy-dependent markets. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 14 Jan 2014 | |
| Mostly false | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 14 Jan 2014 | Cleantech subsidies are a minuscule fraction of one percent of the fossil-fuel subsidy amounts referred to. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 14 Jan 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 2014 | We could easily miss something great. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 2014 | |
| Own records only | Sam Altman | Factual | 2014 | Most YC partners independently told Sam Altman that application quality was much higher for this batch. Sam Altman · Factual · 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Own records only | Sam Altman | Factual | 2014 | In 2014, Altman said the batch he was describing drew nearly 20% more applications than a year earlier, and that average application quality was strikingly higher than for any previous batch. Sam Altman · Factual · 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 2014 | Starting a startup is such a hard thing that we wish we could help everyone doing so. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 2014 | |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 2014 | Y Combinator has capacity constraints while scaling, which forces it to reject potentially good companies. Sam Altman · Factual · 2014 | Economics and markets |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 2014 | The worst part of our job at YC is rejecting companies. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 2014 | The best startups often look bad at this stage, and we make mistakes. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 2014 | Some day, we hope to be able to fund almost all the good startups. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 2014 | It's sometimes useful to ask friends for an outside perspective on how you're doing. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 2014 | Best of luck, and don’t give up. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 2014 | We love to see founders and companies reapply—companies that look bad now can look great with 6 months of progress. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 2014 | |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 2014 | Sam Altman experienced plenty of rejection from investors while running his own startup. Sam Altman · Factual · 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 2014 | If you’re working on something that users love, you like working on it, and you have a plan for how to build a business around it, then… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 2014 | It leaves me feeling down for many days after our application process. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 2014 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | If you’re not going to invent something, you’re not going to achieve those goals. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | And what started as a seed here has been exported as a culture and become a global phenomenon. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | Wall Street investing is a bunch of greedy people who bounce between the walls of greed and fear. I don’t even think we’re in that business. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | I tell my investors to look at the positive side: you can only lose 1 times your money and you can only lose once. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | Every time something goes wrong, I do lots of analysis of what I did stupid. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Own records only | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 7 Dec 2013 | Khosla Ventures considers long tenure at a big company such as Hewlett-Packard or Cisco a negative when hiring. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 7 Dec 2013 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | I don’t view any business as local. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | I look at stock prices once a month. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | Bubbles always happen. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | The ones I regret the most are the ones that could have been big, the ones that failed to achieve their potential. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | You can dramatically reduce the cost of healthcare while improving the quality. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | In the areas I care about, I’m very involved. But strategically. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | Failure has become a badge of honor. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | I can find room for innovation in almost everything I look at. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | I never call myself an investor. I say my job is to be an assistant to entrepreneurs. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | We take bets that have high probability of failure but also high probability of success. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | You don’t want entrepreneurs to do what you tell them to do. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | If you assume on day one that you’ve lost it, then everything is upside. So, play for the big upside. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Unresolvable | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 7 Dec 2013 | Google made the economics of information free, and Intel made IBM's mainframes much cheaper. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 7 Dec 2013 | Economics and markets |
| Own records only | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 7 Dec 2013 | Vinod Khosla has never calculated IRR when making an investment. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 7 Dec 2013 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | The biggest change is that the culture of experimentation has become very accepted. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | I never look at spreadsheets or IRRs — they are uninteresting. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | I have no patience for pundits. I love do-ers. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | I’m a true believer in failure, of failing intelligently, which is about experimentation that can lead to large successes. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | I don’t mind losing at all, but if I succeed, it had better be a big success. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | Today, they want to invent the future they want. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | I have never met anyone who has failed more than me. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | Range Fuel was a logical, almost planned failure. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | Silicon Valley is now a state of mind. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Mixed | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 7 Dec 2013 | Square is possibly the most popular payment system, and when Khosla Ventures backed it everybody told Khosla it would take 10-15 years. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 7 Dec 2013 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | Stock prices are a series of perceptions that have nothing to do with reality. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | I just try and help great entrepreneurs make great companies. And if I do, the money takes care of itself. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | In India, you’re creating an opportunity because most people don’t have access to healthcare; so it’s all upside. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 | |
| Not checkable | Vinod Khosla | Not checkable | 7 Dec 2013 | I would rather try and fail than fail to try. Vinod Khosla · Not checkable · 7 Dec 2013 |
“Some day, we hope to be able to fund almost all the good startups.”
Sam Altman 2014 The Worst Part of YC (Sam Altman's blog)
Some day, we hope to be able to fund almost all the good startups.
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