Blockworks
company on 3 shows · 14 statements across 5 episodes · said 70 times in 8 episodes since 2020
My First Million 45 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 17 
Top Founders 5
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2023 30 mentions in 2 episodes 15 per episode
2022 4 mentions in 1 episode
2021 15 mentions in 2 episodes 8 per episode
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Jason Yanowitz: Blockworks reached $25.5M in revenue by its fifth year
“First year of business, 250 K of revenue. Second year of business, two million of revenue. Third year of business, three and a half million. Fourth year, 12 and a half million. Fifth year, 25 and a half million. So, and we didn't raise any venture that whole t…”
Yanowitz: Blockworks raised $12M at a $135M post-money valuation in 2023
“So then in May or April, 20, 23, about a year ago, we raised twelve million at a one 35 post money valuation.”
Yanowitz: Blockworks raised $12M at $135M valuation after exceeding $20M revenue
“Last year we had a goal of
twenty million in revenue, and we pretty decently exceeded that.
and we've been profitable since day one.
So, yeah, we bootstrapped the business for the first five and a half years, and then back in April or May, we took we raised …”
Parr: Blockworks has a crystal clear path to $100M in sales
“Whenever, like, you're telling me about your guys' business, I'm like, oh, I see a, well, from an outside, I see a crystal clear path to, like, a hundred million in sales.”
Yanowitz: Blockworks lost 80% of revenue overnight when COVID hit
“Then COVID hit, and 80% of our revenue got wiped out overnight because we were, 80% of revenue came from events”
Yanowitz: Blockworks generated over $10M from Permissionless conference in 2022
“Last year we did, like, well over ten million from permissionless.”
Yanowitz: Small events have bad business models; profitability requires massive scale
“The thing that a lot of entrepreneurs get wrong with events is the business model of small events is a really good experience for attendees. It's really fun. You bring people together, good community building. It is a shit business model. So the kind of secret…”
Yanowitz: Half of all conference tickets sell within four weeks of the event
“50% of tickets get sold in the four weeks leading up to a conference.”
Sam Parr: Jason Yanowitz will be worth $100M+ liquid by 2028
“You're gonna be worth at least a hundred million dollars in the next five years, I would imagine. Liquid. That, that's my prediction.”
Yanowitz: First-time founders almost never start with a grand vision
“Everybody thinks that founders had this vision from day one. But if you talk to founders who have built big companies, 99% of them do not. They do, they never did at the beginning. Second-time founders actually do, I've noticed. Like, second-time founders will…”
Bloom: Crypto Media Company Blockworks Has Become A $20M+ Business
“And now it's a, you know, twenty million dollar plus business.”
Parr: Blockworks made $2M revenue at 50% profit on crypto conference
“Two day conference that he just hosted recently. It did two million in revenue. He said, he told me it did about 50% in profit. 800 attendees. Ticket cost one to 2000 dollars.”
Parr: Blockworks will generate north of $10M in revenue in 2021
“Awesome business. Probably will do eight figure or yeah, maybe 10 north of ten million in revenue this year. Completely bootstrapped.”