Jason Yanowitz
13 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 16, 2021 by Sam Parr · said 22 times in 4 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2023 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
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Sep 16, 2021 positive
Sep 28, 2023 positive
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…”
Sep 28, 2023
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…”
Sep 28, 2023 negative
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.”
Sep 28, 2023
Sep 28, 2023
Sep 28, 2023 bullish
Sep 28, 2023
Yanowitz: Startups never get easier because founders constantly optimize for max pain
“This idea that it gets easier as you grow, right? That's I think anyone startups are like this weird or being a founder is this weird thing where like, I think what they, you kind of hold constant, the rate at which you can tolerate problems and Everything els…”
Sep 28, 2023 bullish
Sep 28, 2023 bullish
Sep 28, 2023 negative
Sep 28, 2023
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…”
Sep 28, 2023 positive
Yanowitz: Blockworks raised $12M at $135M valuation after exceeding $20M revenue
“Last year we had a goal of
twenty million in revenue, and we pretty decently exceeded that.
and we've been profitable since day one.
So, yeah, we bootstrapped the business for the first five and a half years, and then back in April or May, we took we raised …”