Scores by kind of claim
Each kind of claim is scored on its own, out of 100: the share that held up, with the range it likely falls in. Fewer resolved claims give a wider range.
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Factual claims
Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
72 64 80 -
Predictions
Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?
58 40 75
All types combined: 70 (likely 62 to 77, high confidence), from 52 claims: 43 factual claims, 9 predictions. It mixes kinds of claim in different proportions for different people, so compare people kind by kind.
Vinod Khosla's claims
25 claims
“Here was an immigrant who had founded a cutting-edge technology company in America.”
Vinod Khosla, writing a letter reply 9 April 2024 Letters to a Young Founder: Vinod Khosla (The Generalist)
Andy Grove was an immigrant who founded a cutting-edge technology company in America.
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
True: Andy Grove was an immigrant (Hungarian-born, emigrated to the US) and was a founder of a cutting-edge technology company in America, i.e., he is recognised as a founder of Intel (counting him as a founding participant or employee no. 1 or 3 alongside Noyce and Moore). Mostly true: Grove was an immigrant central to Intel's founding but is described in sources as the first employee rather than a formal co-founder, and he is still widely called a founder. Mixed: he was an immigrant but his role was clearly that of a later executive and not part of founding. Mostly false: he was an immigrant but had no founding role at all. False: Grove was not an immigrant and did not found a technology company.
Evidence
- Andrew S. Grove 1936 – 2016 Intel Corporation (Business Wire release) · 21 March 2016
“Present at Intel’s 1968 founding with Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, Andy Grove became Intel’s President in 1979 and CEO in 1987.”
- Andrew S. Grove 1936 – 2016 Intel Corporation (Business Wire release) · 21 March 2016
“Born András Gróf in Budapest, Hungary, Grove immigrated to the United States in 1956-7 having survived Nazi occupation and escaped Soviet repression.”
- Digital Pioneer Andrew Grove Led Intel's Shift From Chips To Microprocessors NPR (via NEPM) · 22 March 2016
“When Moore and his co-founder Robert Noyce decided to leave Fairchild in 1968 to form Intel, Moore says Grove invited himself along.”
- Grove, Andy 1936– Encyclopedia.com · 8 May 2018
“Although Grove was not technically a founder of the firm, he was an instrumental player from the start, according to Fortune writer Brent Schlender.”
Reasoning
Intel's official obituary says Grove was born in Budapest, Hungary and immigrated to the United States in 1956-7, which settles the immigrant part of the claim (E2). The same release says he was "present at Intel's 1968 founding with Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore" (E1), and NPR quotes Moore saying Grove asked to join when the two left Fairchild to form Intel (E3). Encyclopedia.com, however, says Grove "was not technically a founder" but was instrumental from the start (E4). That makes him central to the founding without being a formal co-founder, which is what the criteria describe as mostly true.
Cite this claim
Vinod Khosla, “Andy Grove was an immigrant who founded a cutting-edge technology company in America.” (said 9 April 2024). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_71073bfa9b0e, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_71073bfa9b0e
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