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Joe Lubin

Founder and CEO, Consensys · 1 appearance on the record.

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Joseph Lubin is an entrepreneur who co-founded the Ethereum blockchain and founded Consensys, the software company behind tools like MetaMask and Infura. He previously studied at Princeton and worked in software engineering, robotics, and finance, including as VP of Technology at Goldman Sachs.

15statements → 11claims → 4claims resolved → 75%fully supported → 3.87/5average certainty → 2.33/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated →

3 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 7 not checkable as stated how the 11 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 predictions · 6 assertions · 3 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 11 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 7 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 Joe 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

Prediction Held up
Lubin: Tech will soon allow querying data while keeping it encrypted
“In many cases very soon we're gonna be able to have data that remains encrypted at all times, yet we'll still be able to ask questions of that encrypted data”
Joe Lubin Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 35:11 A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

How they sound: speaking style how? →

207 words/min while actually speaking · 99.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Joe Lubin: only 4 usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 4 raw tape exchanges is ≈4.0/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,695 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Joe Lubin said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Joe Lubin says Ethereum is orders of magnitude ahead of Cardano
“There, there's just I think several orders of magnitude at this point between Ethereum and let's say a project like Cardano, or R-Chain, or DFINITY, or Zilliqa, or others.”
Joe Lubin Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 30:43 A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lubin: Layer one blockchain scalability will happen within two years
“We have the trust layer working pretty well, and we need at layer one, that trust layer, we need greater scalability, and that's going to happen over the next year or two.”
Joe Lubin Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 15:20 A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Joe Lubin predicts a reckoning for crypto projects that sold illegal securities
“There's also, I think, gonna be even more of a reckoning coming where certain projects obviously sold securities and sold them contrary to securities law.”
Joe Lubin Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 24:39 A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Insight
Joe Lubin: Aggressive marketing and discounts turn tokens into securities
“If you market it in enormous quantities to speculator types, and you give them big discounts, you put billboards in Times Square, leading people to believe that there is a group that they're relying on for a return of investment, that's going to be considered …”
Joe Lubin Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 26:28 A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Insight
Lubin: Self-sovereign identity on blockchains cannot be confiscated by states
“And in that context, we own our route. Nobody can take that away from us. We can be forced out of our country with no possessions, and we can reestablish that in another country when we get back on our feet.”
Joe Lubin Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 34:40 A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lubin: AI competition will expand to far more actors using decentralized data
“Much better information is available to a much broader audience, so there's still gonna be a crazy arms race, but it's gonna be far more actors in that race.”
Joe Lubin Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 23:28 A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Prediction Held up
Lubin: Tech will soon allow querying data while keeping it encrypted
“In many cases very soon we're gonna be able to have data that remains encrypted at all times, yet we'll still be able to ask questions of that encrypted data”
Joe Lubin Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 35:11 A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Joe Lubin: Hundreds of thousands of people earn a living working on Ethereum
“Ethereum does have hundreds of thousands of people who are during the day paying all of their attention to Ethereum, making a living doing that sort of work.”
Joe Lubin Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 2:49 A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Joe Lubin: ConsenSys processes about 10 billion queries per day for Ethereum
“We process about ten billion queries per day from the public Ethereum ecosystem.”
Joe Lubin Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 3:39 A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Partly supported
Lubin: Traditional music intermediaries capture 70% of value in the ecosystem
“The one thing that's missing is that, that big intermediary in the middle, ah, that is sucking up 70% of the value in the ecosystem.”
Joe Lubin Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 10:34 A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Supported
Lubin: Decentralized layer one blockchains process only 20 TPS
“We've kind of thrown away all that scalability and replaced it with this system that can only do 20 transactions per second but you can trust that that system can't be cheated because it's radically decentralized.”
Joe Lubin Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 15:51 A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Supported
Joe Lubin: SEC declared Bitcoin and Ether as non-securities
“Bill Hinman, director of corporate finance at the SEC after he, after they declared Bitcoin sufficiently decentralized so that it's not a security and put Ether in that category as well the token on Ethereum.”
Joe Lubin Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 25:00 A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lubin: DApps will eventually run across multiple blockchains and protocols
“It is likely that many of those things will sit on multiple blockchains over time, and certainly multiple decentralized protocols, because we'll need protocols for decentralized storage and bandwidth and many other elements.”
Joe Lubin Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 31:21 A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Insight
Lubin: Acquiring users and UI/UX is 90% of building crypto apps
“When you build an application, 90% of the work is working with customers, et cetera so if you need to move it to multiple blockchain systems that's not a big lift. I mean, it's a significant lift, but just acquiring customers and figuring out user experience, …”
Joe Lubin Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 31:35 A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Disclosure
Lubin: ConsenSys takes equity stakes ranging from 5% to over 50%
“So with respect to equity, it ranges from sometimes a little more than 50% to, you know, five percent in an accelerator, accelerator-like context.”
Joe Lubin Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 38:16 A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Drive Sep 17, 2018 28m
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