Ryan Chen

Co-Founder and CFO, Neuro · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ryan Chen co-founded Neuro alongside Kent Yoshimura, scaling the functional nootropic gum and mints brand into retail stores nationwide and surpassing $100 million in revenue. Paralyzed from the waist down at age 19, he rebuilt his athletic career and later presented the business on Shark Tank.

10statements → 8claims → 4claims resolved → 75%fully supported → 3.8/5average certainty → 1.2/5average debate potential →

3 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

8 assertions · 1 disclosure · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 4 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 Ryan 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
Ryan Chen was paralyzed at 19 in a snowboarding accident
“When I was 19, I was at a friend's birthday party, and I was going off a big jump out in Big Bear, California, and I over-rotated on the jump, and I landed on my back, shattered my spine, and was Paralyzed instantly, and literally my life changed in a split se…”
Ryan Chen Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 1:33 The Underdog: From Life Changing Accident to $100M/Year

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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Everything Ryan Chen said on Starter Story that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Daniel Lubetzky defended and consulted Neuro for 18 months during lawsuit
“He hopped on a phone call with us right away for 18 months, consulted us, defended us. He was talking to his lawyers, our lawyers, their lawyers.”
Ryan Chen Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 12:38 The Underdog: From Life Changing Accident to $100M/Year
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Joe Rogan's endorsements of Neuro are entirely unpaid and organic
“Joe Rogan, big fan of Neuro. He talks about it organically. None of that's paid.”
Ryan Chen Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 13:34 The Underdog: From Life Changing Accident to $100M/Year
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Neuro is generating nearly $10 million in revenue per month
“We are now doing almost ten million dollars a month.”
Ryan Chen Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 14:13 The Underdog: From Life Changing Accident to $100M/Year
Disclosure
Ryan Chen cashed out his 401(k) to bootstrap Neuro
“I cashed out my four one K, which I highly don't recommend people doing, but that was the risk that we were willing to take.”
Ryan Chen Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 5:49 The Underdog: From Life Changing Accident to $100M/Year
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Neuro generated $100K in year one and $750K in year two
“The first year, I think we did, like, a little over a hundred K, and then year two, it was like 750 K”
Ryan Chen Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 9:07 The Underdog: From Life Changing Accident to $100M/Year
What-if
Trademark lawsuit court costs would have bankrupted Neuro before winning
“We would have won if we got to court, but getting us to court would have bankrupted us.”
Ryan Chen Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 11:52 The Underdog: From Life Changing Accident to $100M/Year
Assertion Supported
Ryan Chen was paralyzed at 19 in a snowboarding accident
“When I was 19, I was at a friend's birthday party, and I was going off a big jump out in Big Bear, California, and I over-rotated on the jump, and I landed on my back, shattered my spine, and was Paralyzed instantly, and literally my life changed in a split se…”
Ryan Chen Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 1:33 The Underdog: From Life Changing Accident to $100M/Year
Assertion Partly supported
Neuro hit its $30K Indiegogo goal in days via Reddit Nootropics
“Kent, luckily, was a big Redditor, so he got the Reddit Nootropics Group to support, and I think we hit, like, our goal, like, of 30 K in, like, three or four days.”
Ryan Chen Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 6:56 The Underdog: From Life Changing Accident to $100M/Year
Assertion Supported
Neuro rejected two Shark Tank offers to maintain its minimum valuation
“We got two offers that were, like, below what we were asking for, and Kent and I just had this floor where, like, we're just not gonna go below this, and we stuck to our guns.”
Ryan Chen Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 11:11 The Underdog: From Life Changing Accident to $100M/Year
Assertion Supported
Neuro ranks as a top 10 brand on TikTok Shop
“I think we're a top 10 TikTok shop brand.”
Ryan Chen Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 13:41 The Underdog: From Life Changing Accident to $100M/Year

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The Underdog: From Life Changing Accident to $100M/Year Feb 7, 2025 9m
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