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that allows that company to move forward. And so we get some feel for how the founder and his or her team are thinking about how to solve real world business problems. So that's a fascinating setup, and I'm gonna dig in on a couple of aspects there t
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on what you would push, where you probe specifically on the team part of it. Do you just wanna talk about that a little bit? Yeah. That's one of the seven major attributes that we have. And we're trying to understand and I don't have the list of four
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And then on the investor side, this is a horrifying statistic, but eighty five percent of early stage investors don't perform confirmatory due diligence before they cut checks. Explain that word confirmatory due diligence as opposed to regular due di
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...these investigations tend to cost a 100 k, 250 k just to do them. Wow. So now you got a 250 I've I've been in the middle of it many times. I by many times. A few times, actually, I take it back. A few times. Well, I'm curious to see what the board ev
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Confidential and valuable and non public information is the key key bit from So that means on the internal on Bookface, which is YC's internal, they scraped Bookface is gonna be the allegation. If it's, in fact, is YC. If it is YC. Yeah. If it's YC,
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Now take that data into the cloud and analyze the data and then tell you, oh my God, I found something suspicious. Here are five suspicious things you should investigate. But the problem is because I don't have context when the data passed my sensor
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And so, like, you I I'm gonna encourage them to be able to pick the portfolio so that matches the strategic plan. I'm gonna reward them for, for rewarding and empowering early career investigators more. Right? So, I'm gonna build incentives into the,
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they they could they could really look into these things like the like the sexual abuse in the Catholic church or or Theranos and and investigative reporters really had a lot of resources to make these these prestige stories. But I think what we're s
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sort of important context. These entitlement frauds in Minnesota have been going on for over ten years. It's a thirteen, fourteen year old story. It started by an investigative reporter named Jeff Balon, launched his first investigation into this in
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...team that is between twenty and thirty people, plus a very big compliance team. And then on top of that, we have been contracting and working with the leaders in the space when it comes to blockchain analytics. So we borrow also external investigatio
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...and investigations forever. And, I think people will generally keep their, keep their books clean. Okay. Good. I mean, I'll my guess. Because think about the cost of getting dragged into, oh my god. You did something nefarious. You did some quid pro
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We've heard about the JFK files. Right? The killing of Martin Luther King, the Amelia Earhart files, and so All the UFO files. All the UFO files. I think what it does is it shows a pattern of being responsive to the voting public, and I think that th
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Sixty minutes, Frontline. I was thinking about buying Frontline, but you can't buy it. It's part of like a non profit kind of situation. But I have always in another life wanted to run an investigative journalism group. It's incredibly expensive. The
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Alright. We have a massive show for you today, besties, but it's not gonna be our prediction show. We thought we were doing predictions, end of the year, but we had so many amazing stories to cover in the news that we're gonna do predictions next wee
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It's a good question. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, we can test that by looking for other people discussing it. I mean, you mentioned Scott Adams early. He talks about it 17 times in episode By the way, this is a government official in the White House
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and you YouTube now allows you to monetize these. The monetization program previously left this stuff out. Now my understanding is it includes it. I think x includes it. Obviously, Substack is a great way to do it. There's an amazing opportunity in i
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I don't think anyone knew the extent to which Gurley had executed the strategy of hiring people, private investigators. Was it an unfortunate time in terms of just the co instance of timing between the terrible situation of mother dying and the, you
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knew about this four months ago, and they knew about it because the SEC started investigating and got in touch with them. And when that happened, the general counsel, the prince of darkness, told Goodfriend that what was happening here was criminal,
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