The Minutes is a record of what public figures actually said: the words themselves, the moment they were said, and a link to the source. It covers investors, executives and policymakers across podcasts, video, television, speeches, the press and their own posts. When someone makes a claim in the eighteenth minute of a two-hour conversation, that claim is hard to find later and easy to misquote. This is an attempt to fix that.
The name is the old one for the written record of a meeting: not a report of what happened and not an opinion about it, but an account of what was said, kept so it can be checked afterwards. Every page here is the minutes of one person — The Minutes of Gavin Baker, and so on down the roster.
It is not a news summary and it is not commentary. Nothing here tells you what to think about a claim. Each entry gives you one line saying what the point was, the speaker's own words underneath it in quotation marks, and a timestamp that takes you to the second it was said so you can check it yourself. Where a person's position on a topic has moved, both statements are shown side by side with the gap between them, and you can read them and decide what it means.
[ To fill in: one line on who runs The Minutes. ]
hello@minutesof.com. For a wrong quote, attribution or timestamp, the corrections page is faster.