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Joe Betts-Lacroix

Co-founder & CEO, Retro Biosciences. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Joe Betts-Lacroix is a biophysicist and entrepreneur leading Retro Biosciences, a longevity biotechnology company pursuing therapies to extend healthy human lifespan. He previously co-founded OQO and Vium, and served as a partner at Y Combinator.

What they said3 Shows1

Everything Joe Betts-Lacroix said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

Y COMBINATOR Assertion Supported

Betts-Lacroix: Mint scaled by scraping bank websites using voluntarily submitted credentials

“So a friend of mine, Aaron Patzer, created something called Mint and ended up taking a bunch of eyeballs from big banks and other financial companies by hacking, essentially going, doing adversarial interoperability with their websites by scraping, which is so…”

Joe Betts-Lacroix Nov 27, 2019 ▶ 6:31 Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator

Y COMBINATOR Prediction Not checkable as stated

Betts-Lacroix: Amazon's surveillance monopoly will be entrenched by police partnerships

“Or Amazon is now involved in video surveillance on the, at the behest, as you were saying, of police forces all over the country. And that's a situation where they have this creeping, growing monopoly power but it's going to be likely enshrined or ennobled, as…”

Joe Betts-Lacroix Nov 27, 2019 ▶ 28:56 Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator

Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not checkable as stated

Betts-Lacroix: Y Combinator accepts fantastic founders with terrible ideas

“A lot of founders come into the YC with terrible ideas but they're like, sometimes when they're fantastic founders, they're like, let's just accept them anyway, because I know that The, when they're exposed to the richness of this network and the community her…”

Joe Betts-Lacroix Nov 27, 2019 ▶ 55:37 Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Joe's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
Y COMBINATORLEDGER	Co-founder & CEO, Retro Biosciences	1	3	100% 1/1	full record on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast →