Ben Rubin

Co-Founder & CEO, Here Not There Labs · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ben Rubin is a serial tech entrepreneur who co-founded and served as CEO of Houseparty and created the live-streaming app Meerkat. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Here Not There Labs, developing the decentralized messaging protocol Towns.

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2 predictions · 2 assertions · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions 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

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Rubin: Prada embeds RFID tags in all clothing items

“Even, even Prada today have RFIDs on all the clothes, right? You can actually scan those things.”

Ben Rubin Jul 22, 2024 ▶ 32:09 3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Rubin: Luxury watch marketplaces charge 10% to 20% transaction fees

“Right now all these marketplaces, they take arbitrage to create the illusion of trust, right? So they take their 20% or 10% of the transaction because they are, you know, Chrono or other places where people buy watches.”

Ben Rubin Jul 22, 2024 ▶ 36:37 3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

How they sound: not measured why? →

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Prediction Not checkable as stated

Rubin: Value of genuine human access will surge alongside AI clones

“So I actually think that actually having time with Greg one-on-one with Greg Geisenberg one-on-one or online, but with the real Greg, it's going to grow exponentially higher when the image and replication of Greg through AI is going, you know, thousand X.”

Ben Rubin Jul 22, 2024 ▶ 11:26 3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Rubin: AI will force online identity and credential verification within 10 years

“And with AI, like in 10 years from now, it's going to be really important to know, is this person on the other side really did what they do, or do they really have the same amount of, you know, podcast listeners? Do they actually live in Miami? Did they actual…”

Ben Rubin Jul 22, 2024 ▶ 4:01 3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

Insight

Rubin: Proliferation of derivative assets increases original asset value

“I have this instinctive belief that all derivative assets eventually increase the value of the original asset. Meaning in a way pickleball just, the more pickleball is out there, the most, the more the value of 10 is going up. The more, you know, the more ther…”

Ben Rubin Jul 22, 2024 ▶ 10:00 3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

Insight

Rubin: A solo developer can build an on-chain dating protocol

“For proof of concept, I would start with just a set of smart contracts that is on an On an L two, basically on, on, on a lay layer that is much cheaper on top of Ethereum, where you can actually create this protocol, like just exist on Ethereum and without sta…”

Ben Rubin Jul 22, 2024 ▶ 24:20 3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

Assertion Contradicted

Rubin: Luxury watch marketplaces charge 10% to 20% transaction fees

Ben Rubin Jul 22, 2024 ▶ 36:37 3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

Assertion Supported

Rubin: Prada embeds RFID tags in all clothing items

“Even, even Prada today have RFIDs on all the clothes, right? You can actually scan those things.”

Ben Rubin Jul 22, 2024 ▶ 32:09 3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

Insight

Rubin: Luxury communities should admit verified owners free and charge observers

“And even if you take it further, you can even say like, Hey, if you already bought a Rolex and you have the details of the Rolex, you get in free. It's the people that are curious or people who couldn't prove that they already From an ethos perspective, believ…”

Ben Rubin Jul 22, 2024 ▶ 45:18 3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
3 crypto startup ideas: dating app, luxury watch marketplace, tutoring platform	Jul 22, 2024	41m

Ben Rubin

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