Poppy MacDonald | Data-Driven Decisions | Why You Must Gather the Facts Before You Act with the President of USAFacts
Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The President of USAFacts Poppy MacDonald shares with us about why USAFacts’ mission is to make government facts accessible to people around the world, and why she believes it is wise to gather all of the facts before you act.
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| 0:00.0 | Andrew on today's show we're interviewing a wonderful lady by the name of |
| 0:06.3 | Poppy McDonald who is the president of USA Facts now let me tell you what |
| 0:11.2 | USA Facts does USA Facts is an organization where they |
| 0:15.1 | actually gather all of the facts all the government facts that are out there and |
| 0:20.8 | they make it available for you to consume without bias. |
| 0:25.0 | Why would that be helpful to gather facts? |
| 0:28.8 | How could that possibly be important for the business owners for the listeners out there to have access |
| 0:32.2 | to facts without the filter of or the |
| 0:35.8 | editorial of Fox News or CNN or somebody telling you what the facts mean. |
| 0:40.1 | Why would it be super important to have a website devoted to giving you access to just the facts? |
| 0:45.6 | Yeah, I mean if you have somebody whose their whole purpose, their whole devotion is to simply give |
| 0:50.2 | you facts without any sort of bias or agenda. |
| 0:53.4 | That could be invaluable because you, A, aren't wasting time on deciphering the different |
| 0:59.4 | agendas and the different opinions. |
| 1:01.4 | But I mean, you can just get the news faster and more efficiently and it's true. |
| 1:06.0 | And check this out. |
| 1:07.0 | USA Facts was started by the chief executive officer of Microsoft, Steve Bulmer. |
| 1:12.0 | Nice. |
| 1:13.0 | He also is the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. |
| 1:15.0 | Pretty big. |
| 1:16.0 | That's a fact. |
| 1:17.0 | And on today's show, it's a fact, we're going to interview |
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