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Balaji Srinivasan

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The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Yeah, just click into that.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Yeah.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

in the Brazilian photos.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Scroll down a little bit further.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

I'll show you another example.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Click this one with the graph there.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Yeah, that one, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

So this is something where Tesla had the vehicle law.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Fake NYT story by a guy named John Broder that claimed that, oh, Teslas were, you know, they ran out of battery on the side.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Got a photo of a Tesla, you know, being hauled onto a truck.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

And Elon actually had the instrumental logs and was able to use digital evidence to...

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

the verbal narrative, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

This, by the way, is one of our core strengths, numbers over letters, okay?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

We can actually be quantitative.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

We can verify things numerically.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

That is actually a power that journos are generally pretty bad at, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Digital history, unfakable cryptographic history.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

Go a little bit further.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

I'll give you a third example.

The a16z Show
Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct

So yeah, do you see this?