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Resolved true Nouriel Roubini Factual 15 Oct 2018 Four out of five initial coin offerings (ICOs) were scams. Nouriel Roubini · Factual · 15 Oct 2018 Economics and markets
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Resolved true Jeff Bezos Factual 20 Sep 2018 No single person invented Amazon's Echo with Alexa; it was a team invention. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 20 Sep 2018 Their own work or organisation
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Mostly true Jeff Bezos Factual 20 Sep 2018 In Amazon's early days Bezos personally delivered all the packages to the post office. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 20 Sep 2018 Their own work or organisation
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Mostly true Jeff Bezos Factual 20 Sep 2018 Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1995. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 20 Sep 2018 Their own work or organisation
Resolved true Jeff Bezos Factual 20 Sep 2018 Amazon's Echo speaker with Alexa was an invention that no customer asked for. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 20 Sep 2018 Their own work or organisation
Mostly false Nouriel Roubini Prediction 13 Sep 2018 Unlike in 2008, governments will lack the policy tools to manage the next downturn around 2020. Nouriel Roubini · Prediction · 13 Sep 2018 AI policy and governance
Mostly true Elon Musk Promise 7 Sep 2018 Tesla is about to release software letting cars drive from highway on-ramp to exit, changing lanes and overtaking other cars. Elon Musk · Promise · 7 Sep 2018 Technology
Resolved true Elon Musk Promise 7 Sep 2018 Tesla will add video games to its cars. Elon Musk · Promise · 7 Sep 2018 Technology
Mixed Elon Musk Prediction 7 Sep 2018 Humans can definitely travel to the Moon and Mars. Elon Musk · Prediction · 7 Sep 2018 Technology
Resolved true Elon Musk Promise 7 Sep 2018 Tesla is bringing out a new solar roof product whose tiles have solar cells embedded in them. Elon Musk · Promise · 7 Sep 2018 Their own work or organisation
Resolved true Rodney Brooks Factual 15 Jul 2018 Training an image-recognition neural network typically involves showing it millions of labelled images with known ground truth. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 15 Jul 2018 AI capabilities
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Resolved true Rodney Brooks Factual 15 Jul 2018 In 1977 Rodney Brooks joined the Hand-Eye group at the Stanford AI Laboratory, working on vision for his PhD. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 15 Jul 2018 Their own work or organisation
Resolved true Bill Ackman Prediction 17 May 2018 Absent a further policy change from Treasury and FHFA, the subject said he expected Freddie Mac to resume dividend payments to the Treasury in the third quarter of 2018. Bill Ackman · Prediction · 17 May 2018 Economics and markets
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Mostly true Bill Ackman Factual 17 May 2018 On Platform's earnings call, management reiterated it is on track to separate its two businesses in the second half of 2018. Bill Ackman · Factual · 17 May 2018 Economics and markets
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Resolved true Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 25 Apr 2018 China may be moving toward using AI for pervasive, all-seeing control of its population. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 25 Apr 2018 AI policy and governance
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Jeff Bezos

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“I was delivering all the packages to the post office myself.”

Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, speaking at conference 20 September 2018 Full transcript: Jeff Bezos shares Amazon management wisdom (GeekWire)

In Amazon's early days Bezos personally delivered all the packages to the post office.

Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.

The second judge said resolved true; the verdict shown is the first judge's.

What would count as true or false

Judge as of 20 September 2018, about Amazon's earliest operating period (about 1995). True: biographical accounts, early employees' recollections or contemporaneous reports confirm that Bezos himself took Amazon's outgoing packages to the post office or carrier, and that it was routinely his job rather than an occasional task. Mostly true: Bezos regularly drove packages to the post office or UPS himself, but sources show others (such as MacKenzie Bezos or early employees) sometimes did it too, so 'all' is a modest overstatement. Mostly false: Bezos did sometimes take packages to the post office, but credible accounts show it was mainly done by others, so the claim exaggerates his role. False: credible accounts show Bezos did not personally take packages to the post office, with shipping handled entirely by others or by carrier pickup from the start.

Evidence

  1. Amazon's Jeff Bezos looks to the future CBS News · 1 December 2013 Own record
    “If you go back in time 18 years, I was driving the packages to the post office myself, and we were very primitive.”
  2. Amazon: The Early Years (1995-1999) HistoryLink.org · 4 July 2025
    “Early Amazon received orders for all types of eclectic titles and packed and shipped the books themselves.”
  3. Amazon: The Early Years (1995-1999) HistoryLink.org · 4 July 2025
    “She was also on the ground, filling orders alongside early employees and pitching in during breakneck holiday shifts.”
  4. This is what it was like to work at Amazon 20 years ago | Fortune Fortune · 15 July 2015
    “In fact, programmers were the only ones who were exempt from packing boxes at the Christmas rush. Even Bezos was busy in the warehouse.”
  5. Amazon: The Early Years (1995-1999) HistoryLink.org · 4 July 2025
    “Early Amazon received orders for all types of eclectic titles and packed and shipped the books themselves.”
  6. Amazon: The Early Years (1995-1999) HistoryLink.org · 4 July 2025
    “She was also on the ground, filling orders alongside early employees and pitching in during breakneck holiday shifts.”
  7. Amazon: The Early Years (1995-1999) HistoryLink.org · 4 July 2025
    “When an order came through, Amazon purchased the book from a distributor, repackaged it, and then shipped it to the customer.”
  8. Jeffrey Bezos | Encyclopedia.com Encyclopedia.com · 21 May 2018
    “At first, Bezos packaged the orders himself and took them to the post office.”
  9. Amazon’s Early Investors Fact of the Day 1 (Substack, Danny Sheridan) · May 2017 Own record
    “Amazon started as a very small company. I was driving all of the packages to the post office myself in my 1987 Chevy Blazer.”
  10. Jeff Bezos — DAVID SHEFF David Sheff (davidsheff.com)
    “We did, and killed ourselves doing it. We would do our normal jobs and then go down in the basement and pack and ship books.”

Reasoning

An independent reference biography (E8) says that at first Bezos packaged orders himself and took them to the post office, which supports the core of the claim. Bezos's own accounts (E1, E9) say the same, but they are his statements, not independent support. Other sources describe packing and shipping as shared work. A woman described in the HistoryLink account filled orders alongside early employees (E3, E6), everyone except programmers packed boxes at the Christmas rush (E4), and an interview on David Sheff's page about Bezos says "we" packed and shipped books in the basement (E10). These sources show that packing and order filling were shared, but none of them says that someone other than Bezos took the packages to the post office.

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Jeff Bezos, “In Amazon's early days Bezos personally delivered all the packages to the post office.” (said 20 September 2018). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_8ffa13548e6b, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_8ffa13548e6b

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