[bamboozled]

What Joe does is let people be persuasive for 1-3 hours. It doesn’t reveal anything secret or give you any special insights into their real character, motives or intentions.

You need to judge people through their actions, past history and ideally by working with them directly.

This is all just PR, not saying it’s bad, or even intentional. But it’s a form of self-promotion most of the time.

A fun podcast to checkout is called “Decoding the Gurus” where they dissect a lot of these conversations.

[jjulius]

Exactly this. We've had two decades of watching whether or not his words match his actions. I'm glad that someone might enjoy listening to another person wax poetic relatively unchallenged for three hours, but there have been 156,966 hours since Facebook went public on 2/4/06. That's a much larger dataset.