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Jason Yanowitz

Co-Founder, Blockworks · 1 appearance on the record.

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Yanowitz co-founded Blockworks in 2017, bootstrapping it into a major crypto media, research, and data company known for high-profile events such as the Permissionless conference. He also co-hosts the crypto podcast Empire and actively angel invests across digital assets and early-stage software startups.

17statements → 4claims → 2claims resolved → 4/5average certainty → 2.65/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 24said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 3 assertions · 3 opinions · 7 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 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 Jason 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
Yanowitz: MakerDAO will generate $100M in revenue in 2023
“So MakerDAO, for example. They'll do a hundred million of revenue this year.”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 51:32 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
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.”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 12:51 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company

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 Jason Yanowitz on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

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

Opinion
Yanowitz: The best way for Bitcoin to really work is US collapse
“The best way for Bitcoin to really work is for the U S to collapse.”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 1:04:07 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
Assertion Contradicted
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.”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 12:51 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
Opinion
Yanowitz: Bizabo dominates enterprise events despite a terrible product
“It's an enterprise events platform. It's like, it's, they sell it like SaaS. It's like 20 K a year, 30 K a year subscription. You host all your platform, your events on them. They don't take a cut of the fee, of the ticket sales. I don't think it's just a, but…”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 47:40 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
Disclosure
Yanowitz kept 100% of his liquid portfolio in crypto until recently
“Of my liquid portfolio, I'm, until very recently, I was a hundred percent in crypto.”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 56:30 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
Insight
Yanowitz: No single person ever got wealthy through diversification
“No single person ever got wealthy through diversification.”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 58:53 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
Insight
Yanowitz: Most media companies fail because creators cannot sell
“I would argue though, like the problem with most media companies and the reason they don't work is because they're started by folks who can't monetize. So they're usually started by a podcast host or a newsletter writer in 20, 23, and they're brilliant at cont…”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 7:09 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
Insight
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…”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 11:20 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
Insight
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…”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 33:57 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
Insight
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…”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 41:29 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
Prediction Held up
Yanowitz: MakerDAO will generate $100M in revenue in 2023
“So MakerDAO, for example. They'll do a hundred million of revenue this year.”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 51:32 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
Opinion
Yanowitz: Anyone remaining in crypto during 90% downturns is not a scammer
“Anyone who's still in crypto is not a scam artist. It's to the, no one operating in a market that's 90% down trying to scam people.”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 1:07:12 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
Disclosure
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 …”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 3:39 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yanowitz: Blockworks generated over $10M from Permissionless conference in 2022
“Last year we did, like, well over ten million from permissionless.”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 8:31 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
Insight
Yanowitz: Half of all conference tickets sell within four weeks of the event
“50% of tickets get sold in the four weeks leading up to a conference.”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 14:41 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
Disclosure
Yanowitz: Built 4,600-Person MLM Downline In College
“Ended up having 4600 people in my downline had like a thousand people in France.”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 20:06 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
Insight
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…”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 35:58 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yanowitz: Blockworks lost 80% of revenue overnight when COVID hit
“Then COVID hit, and 80% of our revenue got wiped out overnight because we were, 80% of revenue came from events”
Jason Yanowitz Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 8:13 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company

The other half of the tape: Jason Yanowitz's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 22 times in 4 episodes on My First Million. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Sam Parr 22

Statements about Jason Yanowitz, by other people (2)

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sam Parr: Jason Yanowitz will be worth $100M+ liquid by 2028
“You're gonna be worth at least a hundred million dollars in the next five years, I would imagine. Liquid. That, that's my prediction.”
Sam Parr Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 32:43 How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Parr: Blockworks made $2M revenue at 50% profit on crypto conference
“Two day conference that he just hosted recently. It did two million in revenue. He said, he told me it did about 50% in profit. 800 attendees. Ticket cost one to 2000 dollars.”
Sam Parr Sep 16, 2021 ▶ 42:08 How to Make Billions with a DTC Niche Clothing Line | My First Million #219

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2021 17 mentions in 2 episodes 9 per episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company Sep 28, 2023 37m
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