Jason Yanowitz
Co-Founder, Blockworks. On 3 shows, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Yanowitz co-founded Blockworks in 2017, bootstrapping it into a major crypto media, research, and data company known for high-profile events such as the Permissionless conference. He also co-hosts the crypto podcast Empire and actively angel invests across digital assets and early-stage software startups.
3shows
3appearances
46statements
14resolved
8supported
2contradicted
57%fully supported
25said about them ↓ Everything Jason Yanowitz said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Yanowitz: The best way for Bitcoin to really work is US collapse
“The best way for Bitcoin to really work is for the U S to collapse.”
Yanowitz: Crypto is the only real venture-investable vertical today
“I really think crypto is the only real venture investable vertical that is taking place right now.”
Yanowitz: China emerges as the geopolitical winner from the COVID-19 pandemic
“China wins.
And that this was not like, this wasn't the case after nine, 11 in the financial crisis.
Like after both of those, the U S stepped up, right?
The U S like had everyone else's back, but this is
A, like we're just feeling it's very de-globalized bec…”
Yanowitz: November 2020 US presidential election could be delayed
“I do wonder if we will have an election in November. I'll say that. I don't know. I w I don't think it's crazy to think that we won't have, what happens is you delay, quote unquote, you delay the election in November.”
Yanowitz: Negative CAC is probably the only way to build successful SaaS today
“This idea of like creating a negative CAC SaaS business is Probably the only way to build a successful SaaS business today in my mind.”
Yanowitz: CoinDesk event attendance fell 80% in 2019, nearly destroying the company
“CoinDesk almost died in 2019 because of that reason. They had like, I don't know, 10,000 plus people in 2018. And then in 2019, they fell to like 2000 people, right? They fell 80% and that almost wiped out their whole business.”
Yanowitz: Bizabo dominates enterprise events despite a terrible product
“It's an enterprise events platform. It's like, it's, they sell it like SaaS. It's like 20 K a year, 30 K a year subscription. You host all your platform, your events on them. They don't take a cut of the fee, of the ticket sales. I don't think it's just a, but…”
Yanowitz kept 100% of his liquid portfolio in crypto until recently
“Of my liquid portfolio, I'm, until very recently, I was a hundred percent in crypto.”
Yanowitz: No single person ever got wealthy through diversification
“No single person ever got wealthy through diversification.”
Yanowitz: Fed stimulus cannot drive GDP growth during pandemic lockdowns
“In the 2008, 2009, the pumping money into the economy that actually worked really well. Right. And we got out of that recession. Why? Because it was a financial crisis. So people didn't have enough money. You print more money, you give them more money. They go…”
Yanowitz: Institutional investors will allocate 1% to 2% to Bitcoin as a hedge
“What you're going to have is you're going to say, you're going to have these folks saying,
I need to hedge against the, I need to hedge against our current system because we are in a system that they see completely falling apart.
And so they need to, what they…”
Yanowitz: Bitcoin will reach $20,000 to $100,000 within two years
“My price target for the next two years at a minimum is 20,000 dollars. That's at the low end. At the high end, that's a 100,000 dollars.”
Yanowitz: Notion pages often fail as startup company wikis
“I think a lot of people now with startups do it on notion, but that doesn't really solve it because notions pages, even though I want to love them, they end up oftentimes sucking and there's like, it's really hard to find things.”
Yanowitz: Men's personal care market will grow 20x like women's did
“The women's Personal care market. Went from twenty seven billion in 1997 to five hundred and eleven billion, right? It grew about 20 X in the last 25 years. I think the men's care market is about to do the same thing.”
Yanowitz: Health and longevity figures becoming major celebrities is historically unprecedented
“Look at Huberman, Peter Atiyah, like Brian Johnson, like these weird, like health folks are celebrities now. That's never happened in the history of the U.S. Or the world.”
Yanowitz: Building niche B2B media is the best start for first-time founders
“I think for first time founders I am convinced that building a B to B niche media brand is the best way to go make your first buck.”
Yanowitz: Meme-coin-backed startup hits $500k/day revenue in two months
“I talked to a company earlier this week that's doing 500 K a day in revenue. They have 40,000 users. They launched a couple months ago and they built on the back of this like meme coin community.”
Yanowitz: Most media companies fail because creators cannot sell
“I would argue though, like the problem with most media companies and the reason they don't work is because they're started by folks who can't monetize. So they're usually started by a podcast host or a newsletter writer in 20, 23, and they're brilliant at cont…”
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: 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…”
Yanowitz: Starting a business offers more safety and security than employment
“I actually think there's more Safety and security and doing something that you own and where you can like manage a hundred percent of the risk. Like you can be the best employee somewhere. And if all hell breaks loose and like the company's doesn't have a good…”
Yanowitz: MakerDAO will generate $100M in revenue in 2023
“So MakerDAO, for example. They'll do a hundred million of revenue this year.”
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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.”
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My First Million 22
the Startup Ideas Podcast 1
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Co-Founder, Blockworks | 1 | 19 | 55% 6/11 | full record on Top Founders → |
| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Co-Founder, Blockworks | 1 | 17 | 50% 1/2 | full record on My First Million → |
| STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | Co-Founder, Blockworks | 1 | 10 | 100% 1/1 | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |