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Nuseir Yassin

23 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 7 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 6, 2023 by Nuseir Yassin · across every show →

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Apr 6, 2023
Disclosure
Nas Company raised $23M in venture funding to build its ecosystem
“So one year in, we went and raised twenty three million dollars total to achieve this vision.”
Nuseir Yassin Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 29:28 HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
Apr 6, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Yassin earned $120,000 annually while overpaid and underworked at Venmo
“I was overpaid, underworked. A 120,000 bucks a year.”
Nuseir Yassin Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 8:18 HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
Apr 6, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yassin attempted to build 10 companies every semester at Harvard
“So I tried roughly 10 times every semester I was building a company, and almost all of them failed.”
Nuseir Yassin Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 6:48 HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
Apr 6, 2023 positive
Insight
Yassin: The Asian conglomerate startup model beats the US single-product focus
“The American way of building companies tells you, build one product, make that product really big, go on IPO, and just like continue working on that product for the next 1020 years. Like Slack. Slack is a one product company until it got acquired. Perfect. Rig…”
Nuseir Yassin Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 41:41 HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
Apr 6, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Yassin: 195 localized media hubs will eventually replace Hollywood's dominance
“In the future, there is a room for a 195 more Hollywoods to be created. The days in which the whole world is watching Will Smith on TV and Tom Cruise for the 55th movie are done.”
Nuseir Yassin Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 37:57 HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
Apr 6, 2023 negative
Insight
Yassin: Creator shelf-life is 5 years; companies cannot rely on faces
“You cannot build a company reliant on your face, because creators come and go every five years. Every five years, somebody's hot, somebody's not. So my face is temporary. I must migrate from my face to a company.”
Nuseir Yassin Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 23:47 HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
Apr 6, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Yassin's college video sending a hamburger to 'space' got 1M views
“Me and my friends were one of the first to send a hamburger to see the curvature of Earth. Not really space, curvature of Earth. We called it space because it's more fun. And it, Did really well. It got a million views.”
Nuseir Yassin Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 7:46 HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
Apr 6, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yassin averaged 10,000 views across his first 270 daily videos
“My first 270 videos didn't really work. I was averaging like 10,000 views.”
Nuseir Yassin Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 17:48 HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
Apr 6, 2023 positive
Insight
Yassin: 24-hour video iteration cycles drive rapid storytelling improvement
“For me, I was on a learning journey, so I needed to iterate as fast as possible, so I gave myself 24 hours to make a mistake. If I made a mistake on day 68, I could fix it on day 69, you know, and so I was creating, improving every single day until I became re…”
Nuseir Yassin Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 18:14 HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
Apr 6, 2023 positive
Insight
Yassin: Getting 1M views is a more powerful currency than $1M
“My second belief was if I can get the attention of a million people, It is very easy to make a million dollars. I just need the attention of a million people. Views as a currency is more powerful than dollars.”
Nuseir Yassin Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 15:52 HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
Apr 6, 2023 negative
Insight
Yassin: Taking a weekend off when unemployed is ultimately irresponsible
“Taking a weekend off when you have no career, I mean, that's ultimate irresponsible.”
Nuseir Yassin Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 11:13 HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
Apr 6, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Yassin is gradually stepping away from hosting Nas Daily videos
“So I'm getting hosts. So now I have different hosts that get in the videos. I'm taking myself out of the video slowly, but surely”
Nuseir Yassin Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 40:04 HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
Apr 6, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Nas Daily hit $50K to $70K in monthly revenue by video 1,000
“I was going from 10 K a month in revenue and like, I don't know, day 600 or so by day 900 or 1000, I was making, you know, 50 K a month and 70 K a month in revenue.”
Nuseir Yassin Apr 6, 2023 ▶ 22:41 HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
Jan 4, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Yassin: Creator economy is only at 1% of needed creator capacity
“We are at one percent of the way there with how many content creators we need, similar to how many software engineers we need. We are at one percent of the way there because monetizing videos has been very, very new. So we're just at the beginning.”
Nuseir Yassin Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 29:38 Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
Jan 4, 2024
Disclosure
Yassin: Nas Company raised $23M total in funding
“So one year in, we went and raised Twenty three million dollars total to achieve this vision.”
Nuseir Yassin Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 22:46 Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
Jan 4, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Yassin: Nas Daily has never worked with the Israeli government
“So, and I, we've never worked with Israeli government to be clear, but one thing I've realized is that this whole what's taboo and what's not is very relative.”
Nuseir Yassin Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 26:25 Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
Jan 4, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Yassin: CCTV approached Nas Daily to promote tourism in Xinjiang
“To be clear, we've had people from China, CCTV, tell us to go to Xinjiang and talk about the culture and the food.”
Nuseir Yassin Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 25:41 Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
Jan 4, 2024
Disclosure
Yassin: Nas.io takes a 10% cut on community transactions
“So we've built monetization features to help you monetize your community, and we take a 10% cut from anything you do in the community.”
Nuseir Yassin Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 22:19 Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
Jan 4, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Yassin: Room exists globally for 195 localized 'Hollywoods' to emerge
“In the future, there is a room for a 195 more Hollywoods to be created. The days in which the whole world is watching Will Smith on TV and Tom Cruise for the 55th movie are done.”
Nuseir Yassin Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 31:14 Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
Jan 4, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Yassin: Ad-Supported Creator Business Model Is Flawed and Won't Work
“No, there isn't enough advertising, and advertising-based content creation is a flawed model, and I would dare say it's a fraudulent model. This is the model that has been working, but it will not work in the future.”
Nuseir Yassin Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 32:02 Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
Jan 4, 2024
Disclosure
Nuseir Yassin is phasing himself out of appearing in Nas Daily videos
“So now I have different hosts that get on the videos. I'm taking myself out of the video slowly, but surely”
Nuseir Yassin Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 33:24 Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
Jan 4, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Yassin: US State Department asked Nas Daily to make anti-China videos
“But we also had people from the State Department tell us, hey, why don't you make videos about China and how bad it is?”
Nuseir Yassin Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 25:54 Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
Jan 4, 2024 neutral
Insight
Yassin: Global media ethics cannot center purely on American interests
“My compass is very different from an American perspective compass. And that's what many Americans need to realize is that the world does not center around America and American interests.”
Nuseir Yassin Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 26:59 Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
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