Wylie Aronow

Co-Founder, Yuga Labs · 1 appearance on the record.

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Aronow co-founded Yuga Labs in 2021 under the pseudonym Gordon Goner, creating the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection and the Otherside metaverse platform. In January 2023, he stepped down from daily duties at Yuga Labs due to a congestive heart failure diagnosis while remaining an active voice in the Web3 ecosystem.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Wylie argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Aronow: BAYC pre-sold only 300 to 500 NFTs in its first week

“We only pre-sold, I don't know, something like 300 to 500 of the NFTs.”

Wylie Aronow Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 38:18 HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Wylie Aronow on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

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Assertion Not checkable as stated

Aronow: Yuga Labs Was Wildly Profitable Prior to Its VC Round

“I mean, at the time, we were so wildly profitable that, like, we didn't really need to raise, but we started thinking, okay, well, there's a couple of reasons to do this.”

Wylie Aronow Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 55:06 HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow

Disclosure

Aronow: Bored Apes were flat-priced at $200 each to avoid unfair pricing advantages

“We were like, no, you know, we're gonna price this 200 dollars an ape, and that way no one feels like they've gotten advantage over someone else, and we can try and create a club around this, a community.”

Wylie Aronow Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 25:52 HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Aronow: Was approximately $40,000 in medical debt when co-founding Yuga Labs

“When we started Yugo Labs, I was approximately 40,000 dollars in medical debt, mostly.”

Wylie Aronow Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 7:21 HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow

Opinion

Aronow: CryptoKitties' breeding model felt dilutive, not like a true collectible

“The model just felt a little dilutive. It didn't feel like a true collectible.”

Wylie Aronow Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 18:54 HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow

Assertion Supported

Aronow: BAYC pre-sold only 300 to 500 NFTs in its first week

“We only pre-sold, I don't know, something like 300 to 500 of the NFTs.”

Wylie Aronow Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 38:18 HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow

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Statements about Wylie Aronow, by other people (1)

Disclosure

Solano: Yuga Labs founders own only one Ape each and will never sell

“Wiley and I were like, no, we've only ever owned one ape. We didn't even choose our apes, you know, and frankly, obviously we're never going to sell them.”

Greg Solano Sep 1, 2022 ▶ 43:51 HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow

Appearances (1)