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Jorge Rios

Co-founder & CEO, Bridgefy · 2 appearances on the record.

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Jorge Rios is the co-founder and CEO of Bridgefy, a company providing Bluetooth mesh-networking software that enables mobile apps to operate without internet or cellular connectivity. His technology has served as a communication tool during natural disasters and internet blackouts, earning him recognition as an MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35.

11statements → 9claims → 3claims resolved → 33%fully supported → 4.18/5average certainty → 1.82/5average debate potential →

1 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted 2 not yet assessed 4 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 8 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, 2 are not yet assessed, 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 Jorge 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
Rios: Bridgefy leads offline communications by millions of users with no active rivals
“And I cleared up that that competitor hasn't operated. They stopped existing in 2018, and this space is not crowded at all. We are the market leader by millions of users.”
Jorge Rios Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 1:12:53 Season 12 Finale: What Happened After The Pitch?

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Rios: Bridgefy reached 1.5M downloads in Ukraine within 48 hours
“And just the first 48 hours that the Ukraine war was declared, we got 1.5 million downloads in Ukraine only.”
Jorge Rios Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 9:07 Bridgei's $1.5M Deal: Transforming Emergency Communication?

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
none yet certainty 3
50% certainty 4
50% certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

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 Jorge Rios on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Jorge Rios said on the Pitch that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jorge Rios: BridgeFi is the only company making Signal Protocol work offline
“We are the only company in the world that has managed to make the Signal Protocol work offline.”
Jorge Rios Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 6:44 Bridgei's $1.5M Deal: Transforming Emergency Communication?
Assertion Supported
Rios: Bridgefy leads offline communications by millions of users with no active rivals
“And I cleared up that that competitor hasn't operated. They stopped existing in 2018, and this space is not crowded at all. We are the market leader by millions of users.”
Jorge Rios Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 1:12:53 Season 12 Finale: What Happened After The Pitch?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rios: 180,000 Devices Connected Concurrently via BridgeFi Offline
“Our record is a 180,000 devices using our technology at the same place at the same time, without a single one needing access to the internet, without a single one, no exception, no small print.”
Jorge Rios Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 2:50 Bridgei's $1.5M Deal: Transforming Emergency Communication?
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rios: BridgeFi Will Probably Hit $10M Revenue in One Year
“We are fundraising so that we can accelerate and scale our growth and meet this demand and probably get to ten million dollars in revenue by this time next year.”
Jorge Rios Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 3:35 Bridgei's $1.5M Deal: Transforming Emergency Communication?
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Rios: Bridgefy secured a $6M, four-year contract with Istanbul
“And I think, Charles, you meant the six million dollar contract that I mentioned. So that's with the city of Istanbul in Turkey, and they're going to build a, an earthquake alerts app. This is a 1.5 million dollar Contract per year for the next four years.”
Jorge Rios Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 8:25 Bridgei's $1.5M Deal: Transforming Emergency Communication?
Disclosure
Rios: BridgeFi aims for native integration into Apple iOS and Android
“Right now we're working on the app level, and we license the technology to apps, individual apps, but Endgame, our vision is to partner up with either Android or Apple so that you literally get an iPhone out of the box and instantaneously are able to use it wi…”
Jorge Rios Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 13:30 Bridgei's $1.5M Deal: Transforming Emergency Communication?
Assertion Partly supported
Jorge Rios: FireChat shut down years ago and is no longer a competitor
“So regarding FireChat, they stopped existing years ago. They only had one-to-one communication, that's it. And so I can tell you with a hundred percent certainty that FireChat is, is not a competitor of ours anymore.”
Jorge Rios Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 22:52 Bridgei's $1.5M Deal: Transforming Emergency Communication?
Assertion Contradicted
Rios: Bridgefy reached 1.5M downloads in Ukraine within 48 hours
“And just the first 48 hours that the Ukraine war was declared, we got 1.5 million downloads in Ukraine only.”
Jorge Rios Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 9:07 Bridgei's $1.5M Deal: Transforming Emergency Communication?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rios: BridgeFi has never done outbound sales
“We've never done any outbound sales or anything.”
Jorge Rios Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 11:50 Bridgei's $1.5M Deal: Transforming Emergency Communication?
Disclosure
Rios: BridgeFi secured $150K from Biz Stone for current round
“We just started fundraising a couple weeks ago, only a 150. From Biz Stone, one of the Twitter founders, and one of our internal investors.”
Jorge Rios Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 15:26 Bridgei's $1.5M Deal: Transforming Emergency Communication?
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Rios: BridgeFi Previously Raised $4M in Pre-Seed and Seed
“Between pre-seed and seed, we raised four million.”
Jorge Rios Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 3:57 Bridgei's $1.5M Deal: Transforming Emergency Communication?

Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Season 12 Finale: What Happened After The Pitch? Dec 12, 2024 1m
Bridgei's $1.5M Deal: Transforming Emergency Communication? Sep 18, 2024 10m
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