Liz Lopatto

So I'm like, all right, which VCs are going to be catching strays here?

Because like...

Those are also people who potentially can be very embarrassed by stuff that comes out just in the course of having this discussion of what happened on this timeline.

No, I don't think you are.

Although I will say I think that the New Yorker article came out when it did in part because of this case.

Right.

Like, you know, my my read of this and this is just like as a person who also does reporting is that when I got to the part about the dossier, I was like, oh, someone sent Roman Ronan Farrow this dossier.

And he was like, OK, how much of this can I substantiate?

And the answer was like the most egregious claims were false.

And like there's a point at which Altman actually thanks him for like looking into, you know, these allegations where he's like, well, at least somebody like looked into it and said, like, that's not real.

It's really hard to prove a negative.

But like if anybody is going to find, you know, misconduct, like Ronan Farrow is pretty good at it.

That's all you can ask for.

So, you know, that is my understanding of the genesis of the story.

You would have to ask Ronan Farrow to figure out if that's true.

But just thinking about how reporters work, and at least how I work, if somebody sent me a dossier like that, I'd be like,

Ooh, that's juicy.

And then I would try to substantiate it.

So, you know, that's my guess.

And like when they didn't, when he didn't turn up like the misconduct allegations that are in there, I imagine in that process, he started to turn up this stuff where it's like, well, Sam will say anything to keep people happy.