Jack Smith

Syndicate Lead, The Tribe · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jack Smith co-founded the mobile video ad network Vungle and on-demand delivery startup Shyp. He is a prominent angel investor and advisor who had early involvement with AppLovin.

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1 prediction · 4 assertions · 2 opinions · 3 insights · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are 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 Jack 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

DEXA scanners cost $50K new versus $1M for whole-body MRI

“New, I think like 50,000, and that was more affordable than I thought because a whole body MRI scanner, which looks kind of similar, but it's doing an MRI scan, that's a million dollars. And so this like 50 K reasonable, and then I saw some used for like 15,00…”

Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 16:04 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good

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What they said14 What others said92 Episodes1

Everything Jack Smith said on My First Million that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion

Smith: An Energy Enhancement System Cured His Chronic Daily Headaches

“The, I actually think that this EES thing is the only thing that worked. I just went in there and I sat in a lawn chair for an hour, maybe two hours, and then just came out and in my stomach, like I can feel my stomach, like reorganizing, et cetera, churning. …”

Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 7:28 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good

Opinion

Smith: Fast whole-body MRI startups are just Silicon Valley branding

“So I've done that in America, and they similarly say, like, okay, well, I was the chief medical officer at Google, and we have all these Google engineers, so we do AI, And that's why we can do it in 45 minutes instead of four hours, et cetera, like you're sayi…”

Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 24:57 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Jack Smith: MrBeast could be US president if he wanted to

“I think Mr. Beast, if he wanted, he can be president of the US at some point, because he just, since the age of 15, has just had one goal, And it's not changed for 10 whatever years.”

Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 38:02 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good

Insight

Smith: 99% of Biohacking Fails, But 1% Yields Major Impact

“So 99% of it, I don't notice anything. However, one percent, I do notice big things. And for me, it's kind of like, okay, We don't know what works, what doesn't work, but I've only got one life, and I've only got one body, and just experimenting, I can find th…”

Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 4:04 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good

Insight

Smith: Medical Concierges Can Arbitrage Lower-Cost Foreign Diagnostic Clinics Without Buying Hardware

“I feel you could just brand a biohacking center in any other country if you have strong links to the country, because what they were doing here is they don't have their own MRI scanner. He just took us to MRI. He just took us to all these different labs in Ind…”

Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 26:39 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good

Insight

Smith: Maintaining maximum sprint intensity across a startup marathon inevitably causes burnout

“If you're just trying to do that endlessly, it's like telling Usain Bolt, like, okay, great. You just ran the hundred meters. Just keep up that pace. We're now doing a marathon, but just keep up that same pace you ran the hundred meters in. It doesn't work. Li…”

Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 33:57 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good

Disclosure

Smith Owns an At-Home Penile Shockwave Therapy Machine

“I'm starting doing this treatment where it's like shockwave therapy that you shockwave your penis, et cetera. And he's like, I'm going once a month, et cetera. I'm like, dude, I have that machine in my house.”

Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 11:13 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good

Assertion Not checkable as stated

BodySpec bootstrapped to over $2M in revenue with 14 vans

“Body spec was bootstrapped and they built it to like more than two million in revenue, even with just like 14 vans, I think.”

Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 15:05 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good

Assertion Supported

DEXA scanners cost $50K new versus $1M for whole-body MRI

Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 16:04 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good

Assertion Supported

Smith: AIWO's $6,000 Indian Wellness Retreat Includes Full MRI and Hotel

“But 6000 dollars included that MRI that in America you're paying more than 3000 dollars for. And that was just like a few hours part of it. This was a whole week and including your hotels, et cetera.”

Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 25:42 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good

Disclosure

Smith is Building a Digital Detox Retreat For Burned-Out Tech Workers

“I'm building a place for them to detox from technology and recover from burnout.”

Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 32:26 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good

Disclosure

Smith: Vungle Tested Six Landing Pages in Three Weeks Before Succeeding

“Like, we created landing pages for each. In the space of something like two, three weeks, we iterated on six different ideas and the right idea the market pulled it out with us.”

Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 55:46 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good

Assertion Supported

Smith: Tony Robbins' 6'7" Height Resulted From a Brain Tumor

“Tony then found he had like a tumor on his brain that has made his body release like loads of human growth hormone. And so basically that's why he's six foot seven. He has, he's just a massive giant growth spurt, but he also feels like he has abundant energy.”

Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 57:25 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good

Disclosure

Smith: Sweat Gland Freezing Reduced His Sweating by 90 Percent

“One bit I did that was actually really effective for me is I, before I sweated a lot, so kind of embarrassing, you know, if your t-shirt or whatever you're sweating, and I did this thing where they actually freeze the sweat glands under your arm, and it, now I…”

Jack Smith Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 30:22 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good

The other half of the tape: Jack Smith's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 87 times in 27 episodes on My First Million. 5 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Shaan Puri 46 Sam Parr 38 Andrew Wilkinson 2 Nick Gray 1

Statements about Jack Smith, by other people (5)

Insight

Puri: Predicting winning social apps is nearly impossible even for top VCs

“And so Jack pointed out, he's like, if even the best guys who have had the home runs have a bunch of swings and misses with social, it just shows how hard it is to like correctly predict social before it plays out.”

Shaan Puri May 28, 2021 ▶ 21:14 How Vending Machines are Generating Millions & The Next Big Social App | My First Million #187

Disclosure

Puri Slept in His Office 215 Days During a Single Year

“When I first met Sam and I met you, Jack, I was probably 2425 years old. I remember that that year I slept in the office, I think, 215 days out of the year.”

Shaan Puri Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 36:53 Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good

Assertion Partly supported

Jack Smith Sold Ad-Tech Startup Vungle for $750 Million at 29

“He sold it for seven hundred fifty million when he was 29 years old, like crazy stuff.”

Sam Parr Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 18:46 Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman

Assertion Supported

Sam Parr: Jack Smith sold his company for $100 million

“Jack Smith, our good buddy is another one of those people. He started a company that he sold for a hundred million dollars, but like, he's not that like, he doesn't really care about that and he'll never tell you about it unless you ask about it, but he's happ…”

Sam Parr Jul 19, 2022 ▶ 1:01:10 Our Producer Had A 90-Minute Phone Call With Mr Beast…

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Amazon Banned Founder Jack Smith for Returning Too Many Test Purchases

“And at one point they banned him on Amazon. They banned him on Amazon for returning too much stuff because he would buy all of this stuff to test it out.”

Sam Parr Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 20:56 Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman