1,587 claims · page 10 of 16
| Verdict | Person | Kind | Said | Claim | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Factual | 15 Dec 2020 | The company Mrs. B started at the Furniture Mart now employs probably 10,000 people. Warren Buffett · Factual · 15 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 10 Dec 2020 | Volume 3 of Taleb's Incerto includes errors in regression/overfitting in social science, plus IQ metrics. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 10 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Elon Musk | Factual | 25 Nov 2020 | On 2020-11-25, Musk described a launch as a "life leader launch", saying it carried more risk than normal. Elon Musk · Factual · 25 Nov 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly false | Elon Musk | Promise | 24 Nov 2020 | SpaceX aims to fly Starship SN8 on its first flight to about 15 km (~50,000 ft) altitude the week after 2020-11-24. Elon Musk · Promise · 24 Nov 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Elon Musk | Factual | 22 Nov 2020 | The rocket was due to fly its 7th flight on 2020-11-23, landing on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You. Elon Musk · Factual · 22 Nov 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Bill Ackman | Promise | 19 Nov 2020 | Bill Ackman will match donations to a cause dollar for dollar. Bill Ackman · Promise · 19 Nov 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Gary Marcus | Factual | 28 Oct 2020 | Marcus spent three months recruiting Rodney Brooks to join his robotics company idea. Gary Marcus · Factual · 28 Oct 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 25 Oct 2020 | Ray Dalio has practiced meditation since 1968. Ray Dalio · Factual · 25 Oct 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 25 Oct 2020 | Dalio did not anticipate the COVID-19 pandemic and was taken by surprise by it. Ray Dalio · Factual · 25 Oct 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Yann LeCun | Factual | 30 Sep 2020 | Ken Perlin is a colleague of Yann LeCun at NYU. Yann LeCun · Factual · 30 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Yann LeCun | Factual | 28 Sep 2020 | Konbini published a short interview with Yann LeCun on the history of deep learning and his career. Yann LeCun · Factual · 28 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Ørsted | Promise | 9 Sep 2020 | Henrik Poulsen will serve as special advisor to Mads Nipper until 31 January 2021 to support a smooth transition. Ørsted · Promise · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ørsted | Factual | 9 Sep 2020 | Mads Nipper's compensation package follows Ørsted's remuneration policy and includes a fixed base salary of DKK 15 million, which also covers pension contribution. Ørsted · Factual · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ørsted | Factual | 9 Sep 2020 | Mads Nipper's package includes an annual cash-based variable remuneration of 0-30% of annual fixed salary with a 15% target, and long-term share-based remuneration with a target of 20% of annual fixed salary. Ørsted · Factual · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Ørsted | Promise | 9 Sep 2020 | Henrik Poulsen will remain in office as Ørsted CEO until 31 December 2020. Ørsted · Promise · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Ørsted | Factual | 9 Sep 2020 | Mads Nipper led a transformation of Grundfos over the past six years that reinforced the company's position in an increasingly competitive market and strengthened its financial performance. Ørsted · Factual · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Ørsted | Promise | 9 Sep 2020 | In 2021 the CEO's total target remuneration at Ørsted will be approximately DKK 20 million. Ørsted · Promise · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Ørsted | Promise | 9 Sep 2020 | Mads Nipper will take office as Ørsted CEO on 1 January 2021. Ørsted · Promise · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Yann LeCun | Factual | 14 Aug 2020 | The Wall Street Journal published a piece on self-supervised learning involving Kyunghyun Cho and Yann LeCun. Yann LeCun · Factual · 14 Aug 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Rodney Brooks | Factual | 3 Aug 2020 | On 2020-08-03 Rodney Brooks published a short blog post on how quickly accepted wisdom in science changes, with suggestions of possible radical scientific reorientations. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 3 Aug 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 29 Jun 2020 | A new economic history podcast launched by 29 June 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 29 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Scott Alexander | Factual | 24 Jun 2020 | The New York Times reporter told Scott Alexander that his editor absolutely prohibited writing the story without Alexander's real name and that the reporter considered the story too important to drop. Scott Alexander · Factual · 24 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Scott Alexander | Factual | 24 Jun 2020 | Scott Alexander discussed with the New York Times reporter why he wanted his real name left out of the story, saying largely what he said in his public post. Scott Alexander · Factual · 24 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 17 Jun 2020 | Tyler Cowen conducted a Conversations with Tyler interview with Rachel Harmon, released by 17 June 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 17 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 9 Jun 2020 | Marginal Revolution University released a new video featuring Colin Camerer by 9 June 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 9 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 5 Jun 2020 | Emergent Ventures announced its ninth cohort of winners by 5 June 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 5 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Gary Marcus | Factual | 4 Jun 2020 | Anima Anandkumar misrepresented private correspondence with Gary Marcus. Gary Marcus · Factual · 4 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 3 Jun 2020 | Tyler Cowen conducted a Conversations with Tyler interview with Ashley Mears, released by 3 June 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 3 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 29 May 2020 | Conor Friedersdorf interviewed Tyler Cowen, with the interview published by 29 May 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 29 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | GiveWell | Factual | 28 May 2020 | GiveWell shares its plans for the year each spring. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly false | GiveWell | Promise | 28 May 2020 | GiveWell hopes to conduct in-depth reviews of one to two other charities in 2020, most likely Precision Agriculture for Development and/or Sanku, but may have limited capacity due to COVID-19 work. GiveWell · Promise · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | GiveWell | Factual | 28 May 2020 | GiveWell's investigation of a potential alcohol policy grant was delayed because the potential grantee shifted its focus to COVID-19 response. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | GiveWell | Promise | 28 May 2020 | GiveWell will make additional COVID-19 response grants if it believes they are more cost-effective than the opportunities to which it would otherwise direct funds. GiveWell · Promise · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | GiveWell | Factual | 28 May 2020 | As of 28 May 2020, GiveWell had made three grants for COVID-19 mitigation. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | GiveWell | Prediction | 28 May 2020 | Much of GiveWell's work in 2020 will go forward as anticipated. GiveWell · Prediction · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | GiveWell | Factual | 28 May 2020 | GiveWell made limited progress in 2019 in assessing public health regulation, a relatively new domain for it. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | GiveWell | Promise | 28 May 2020 | After completing its alcohol policy grant investigation, GiveWell will reflect on what it has learned about public health regulation before deciding whether to do additional work in this area. GiveWell · Promise · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | GiveWell | Factual | 28 May 2020 | The GiveWell post on 2020 plans does not include a complete accounting of everything GiveWell plans to do in 2020. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | GiveWell | Factual | 28 May 2020 | GiveWell's plans laid out internally at the beginning of 2020 were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | GiveWell | Factual | 28 May 2020 | In early 2020 GiveWell conducted research that led it to prioritize alcohol policy and pesticide suicide prevention and to deprioritize air pollution, tobacco and road safety. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | GiveWell | Factual | 28 May 2020 | Dispensers for Safe Water is a GiveWell standout charity. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | GiveWell | Factual | 28 May 2020 | GiveWell's marketing team is examining how users engage with the GiveWell website and where they may become confused or misinterpret its work. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | GiveWell | Factual | 28 May 2020 | GiveWell has paused work on public health regulation as of May 2020. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | GiveWell | Factual | 28 May 2020 | GiveWell does not typically focus on high-uncertainty, short-timeline reviews of funding opportunities. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | GiveWell | Promise | 28 May 2020 | In 2020 GiveWell will complete its review of the New Incentives RCT results and decide whether to direct additional funding to New Incentives. GiveWell · Promise · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 20 May 2020 | Tyler Cowen held a second Conversations with Tyler interview with Paul Romer, released by 20 May 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 20 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 19 May 2020 | Ray Dalio and his wife, in agreement with Governor Lamont, are terminating their partnership with the State of Connecticut to help disengaged students through high school and into jobs. Ray Dalio · Factual · 19 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 15 May 2020 | Tyler Cowen co-authored a piece with Garry Kasparov, published by May 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 15 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 14 May 2020 | Ray Dalio is often asked on social media for advice for young people and shared his top advice in May 2020. Ray Dalio · Factual · 14 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Ray Dalio | Factual | 13 May 2020 | Ray Dalio has been sharing his answers to social media questions on a weekly basis in a compiled format. Ray Dalio · Factual · 13 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Satya Nadella | Factual | 30 Apr 2020 | In April 2020 Microsoft Teams saw more than 200 million meeting participants in a single day, generating more than 4.1 billion meeting minutes. Satya Nadella · Factual · 30 Apr 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Satya Nadella | Factual | 30 Apr 2020 | Microsoft has made GitHub's core features free for teams of any size for the first time. Satya Nadella · Factual · 30 Apr 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Satya Nadella | Factual | 30 Apr 2020 | Microsoft Power Platform is used by more than 3.4 million citizen developers and business decision-makers. Satya Nadella · Factual · 30 Apr 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Satya Nadella | Factual | 30 Apr 2020 | As of April 2020 Microsoft Teams had more than 75 million daily active users, two thirds of whom shared, collaborated or interacted with files on Teams. Satya Nadella · Factual · 30 Apr 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Satya Nadella | Prediction | 30 Apr 2020 | Microsoft's fiscal Q4 2020 will show consistent execution on a large annuity base, with continued usage and consumption growth across its cloud offerings. Satya Nadella · Prediction · 30 Apr 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Satya Nadella | Factual | 30 Apr 2020 | The number of organizations integrating third-party and line-of-business apps with Teams tripled in the two months to late April 2020. Satya Nadella · Factual · 30 Apr 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Marc Andreessen | Prediction | 18 Apr 2020 | The essay "It's Time to Build" will be the target of criticism. Marc Andreessen · Prediction · 18 Apr 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Steven Pinker | Promise | 26 Mar 2020 | The 2020-03-26 Rationality class lecture on a rational model for climate action will be recorded and posted later. Steven Pinker · Promise · 26 Mar 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Steven Pinker | Promise | 20 Mar 2020 | Will MacAskill will give a virtual guest lecture in Pinker's Rationality course later in the spring 2020 semester. Steven Pinker · Promise · 20 Mar 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Steven Pinker | Factual | 12 Mar 2020 | The newest lecture in Gen Ed 1066, Rationality, is titled Social and Political Bias. Steven Pinker · Factual · 12 Mar 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 24 Feb 2020 | Khosla Ventures does not allow IRR calculations when making an investment and never looks at them. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 24 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 24 Feb 2020 | Vinod Khosla said he first read about Andy Grove, a Hungarian immigrant who moved to the US and started a company, when he was 15. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 24 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 24 Feb 2020 | Khosla Ventures did not sell many of its portfolio companies and held on to them. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 24 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 24 Feb 2020 | Vinod Khosla does not attend many board meetings now. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 24 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 24 Feb 2020 | Vinod Khosla published his 2019 book recommendations on Medium.com, a list of more than 20 books. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 24 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 24 Feb 2020 | Khosla Ventures basically does not invest in advertising tools now. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 24 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 24 Feb 2020 | Three people Vinod Khosla invested in won Nobel prizes after he invested in them. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 24 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 24 Feb 2020 | When investing in Impossible Foods, Khosla Ventures made clear it would pass up profit rather than sell the company to a food company that might divert its mission. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 24 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 24 Feb 2020 | Vinod Khosla interviews roughly eight to ten people a week, mostly for Khosla Ventures portfolio companies. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 24 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 24 Feb 2020 | Khosla said his selection of 100 Khosla Ventures portfolio companies did not include successes such as Square, Stripe or Nutanix. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 24 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Demis Hassabis | Factual | 12 Feb 2020 | Demis Hassabis received the 2020 Dan David Prize Future Award alongside Prof. Amnon Shashua. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 12 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Bill Gates | Factual | 10 Feb 2020 | The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was started 20 years before 2020. Bill Gates · Factual · 10 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Bill Gates | Factual | 10 Feb 2020 | For the last 20 years the Gates Foundation has focused on improving global health and strengthening US public education. Bill Gates · Factual · 10 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Bill Gates | Factual | 10 Feb 2020 | Gates said that "we" had known for a while that they wanted to give away the majority of their wealth from Microsoft and use it to make people's lives better. Bill Gates · Factual · 10 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Bill Gates | Factual | 10 Feb 2020 | The Gates Foundation has spent $53.8 billion over its first 20 years. Bill Gates · Factual · 10 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Rodney Brooks | Factual | 1 Jan 2020 | On 1 January 2018 Rodney Brooks published predictions about self driving cars, AI and machine learning, and the space industry. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 1 Jan 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Jeremy Grantham | Factual | 2020 | GMO calculated that a return to the old price trend plus a typical overrun in extreme house prices would remove $10 trillion of perceived wealth from U.S. consumers and guarantee the worst recession for decades. Jeremy Grantham · Factual · 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Jeremy Grantham | Factual | 2020 | Grantham has been spending twice his usual total research time on the interactions between the virus, the economy and markets. Jeremy Grantham · Factual · 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Nassim Taleb | Promise | 31 Dec 2019 | Taleb is running Twitter symposia on topics in Principia Politica and will integrate the comments into the text. Nassim Taleb · Promise · 31 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 30 Dec 2019 | Taleb's lecture "From Ponzi to Localism" angered, among others, Riad Salameh and Lebanese bankers. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 30 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 30 Dec 2019 | In 2019 Taleb gave a lecture in Lebanese, "From Ponzi to Localism", at USJ, broadcast on Lebanese TV during the riots. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 30 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 28 Dec 2019 | Taleb has written five articles for the New York Times in the past, under pressure from the publisher. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 28 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Steven Pinker | Factual | 27 Dec 2019 | Pinker took on an assignment from the Financial Times to write about what to expect from the 2020s for its end-of-year issue. Steven Pinker · Factual · 27 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Nouriel Roubini | Factual | 27 Dec 2019 | The latest issue of CIRSD's Horizons magazine includes Roubini's article "The Specter of Deglobalization and the Thucydides Trap". Nouriel Roubini · Factual · 27 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 23 Dec 2019 | Tyler Cowen said he met her (identified in the resolution criteria as the author Gail Hareven) in 2019. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 23 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 23 Dec 2019 | Tyler Cowen does not write notes to remind himself of things. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 23 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 23 Dec 2019 | Tyler Cowen emails himself reminders about one thing every three days or so and remembers the rest. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 23 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 23 Dec 2019 | Tyler Cowen said the activity he was discussing is not an income earner. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 23 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 23 Dec 2019 | Tyler Cowen sends himself an email when he needs to remind himself of something. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 23 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Steven Pinker | Factual | 23 Dec 2019 | Steven Pinker wrote a guest post titled 'NIPS vs. NeurIPS' on Scott Aaronson's blog Shtetl-Optimized. Steven Pinker · Factual · 23 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 23 Dec 2019 | Tyler Cowen never sends text messages. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 23 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 23 Dec 2019 | Most podcasts do not offer a transcript. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 23 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 23 Dec 2019 | Tyler Cowen has two offices, one in Arlington and one in Fairfax, and used to have three. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 23 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Jim Cramer | Factual | 23 Dec 2019 | Jim Cramer wrote a piece on Boeing for RealMoney, due to be published shortly after 2019-12-23. Jim Cramer · Factual · 23 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 23 Dec 2019 | The text in the linked post came verbatim from Taleb's Principia Politica. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 23 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 23 Dec 2019 | Tyler Cowen first went to China about 30 years before 2019 and has been there many times since. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 23 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 23 Dec 2019 | Tyler Cowen responds to all his emails right away. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 23 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Steven Pinker | Factual | 22 Dec 2019 | A major theme of Pinker's two books on progress is that modernity replaces ties of clan and tribe with individual freedom and institutionalized social order. Steven Pinker · Factual · 22 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Steven Pinker | Factual | 21 Dec 2019 | Steven Pinker published a new photo gallery of Sweden featuring aurora borealis, frozen rivers and waterfalls, and 200-year-old preserved homes and stores. Steven Pinker · Factual · 21 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Jim Cramer | Factual | 20 Dec 2019 | Jim Cramer owns no Eli Lilly stock. Jim Cramer · Factual · 20 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
“the company now employs probably 10,000 people”
Warren Buffett, Berkshire CEO 15 December 2020 CNBC Transcript: Buffett and David Solomon (Dec 2020) (CNBC)
The company Mrs. B started at the Furniture Mart now employs probably 10,000 people.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
What would count as true or false
The measure is total employees of Nebraska Furniture Mart (the company Mrs. B founded), including all its stores and affiliates such as R.C. Willey only if the claim's 'company' clearly covers them, as of December 2020. The claim is hedged ('probably'), so it is not held to an exact figure. True: headcount is about 8,000–12,000. Mostly true: 6,500 to under 8,000, or over 12,000 to 14,000. Mixed: 5,000 to under 6,500, or over 14,000 to 17,000. Mostly false: 3,000 to under 5,000, or over 17,000 to 25,000. False: under 3,000 or over 25,000.
Evidence
- Nebraska Furniture Mart foresees growing pains in Omaha Nebraska Examiner · 25 January 2022
“According to NFM, the company employed more than 2,000 people in Omaha in 2020 with a $104 million local payroll.”
- Nebraska Furniture Mart Selects Workforce Software for Its Retail, Warehouse, and Corporate Employees Marketwired (press release distributed via Yahoo Finance), issued by WorkForce Software · 1 March 2016
“"Nebraska Furniture Mart's workforce is more than 5,000 strong, and we're pleased to offer a solution to that addresses their diverse needs," said Michael Jepsen, senior vice president of sales, WorkForce Software.”
Reasoning
E1 reports that NFM employed more than 2,000 people in Omaha in 2020, but that covers one market only and gives no company-wide total. E2 puts NFM's workforce at "more than 5,000" in March 2016. That is a lower bound from almost five years before the claim date and could fit several verdict bands. Neither source gives total NFM headcount as of December 2020, so the criteria cannot be applied.
Cite this claim
Warren Buffett, “The company Mrs. B started at the Furniture Mart now employs probably 10,000 people.” (said 15 December 2020). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_f0c5892efaf5, method 0.1.0+28da144b. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_f0c5892efaf5
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