Ari Ewan

Managing Director, Yellow Umbrella Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Arry Yu is a serial technology entrepreneur and executive best known for co-founding and serving as CEO of group-gifting platform GiftStarter, as well as serving as COO and President of crypto company StormX. She now advises and invests while directing policy initiatives through the WTIA and 1871's Convergence: Tech Policy Institute.

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1 prediction · 2 assertions · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 1 names 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.

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What the tape says about how Ari 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
Giftstarter has raised approximately $525,000 in angel capital
“We've raised some angel capital about 525,000 dollars.”
Ari Ewan Jun 4, 2016 ▶ 6:39 Is It Possible To Launch a Startup And a Baby At The Same Time? EP 257: Arry Yu

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Disclosure
Giftstarter co-founder left with zero equity due to one-year cliff
“We set up the company to be very company favorable in, in how we manage the founders, and the idea was if you can make it to the end of the, at least one year, then you should walk away with some equity if you decide to leave that point, because you were right…”
Ari Ewan Jun 4, 2016 ▶ 9:21 Is It Possible To Launch a Startup And a Baby At The Same Time? EP 257: Arry Yu
Assertion Supported
Giftstarter has raised approximately $525,000 in angel capital
“We've raised some angel capital about 525,000 dollars.”
Ari Ewan Jun 4, 2016 ▶ 6:39 Is It Possible To Launch a Startup And a Baby At The Same Time? EP 257: Arry Yu
Assertion Supported
Jonathan Sposato is the only person to sell two companies to Google
“He was the only guy to sell two companies to Google so successfully.”
Ari Ewan Jun 4, 2016 ▶ 14:06 Is It Possible To Launch a Startup And a Baby At The Same Time? EP 257: Arry Yu
Disclosure
Giftstarter monetizes via an 8% transaction fee to consumers
“We make money in a couple of ways. One, we have a transaction fee to the consumer. It's eight percent, but you know, think of a hundred dollar item. It's eight dollars broken into a bunch of pieces, maybe it's 40 pieces. No one person is paying the fee. And th…”
Ari Ewan Jun 4, 2016 ▶ 5:40 Is It Possible To Launch a Startup And a Baby At The Same Time? EP 257: Arry Yu
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Giftstarter hopes to reach $50,000 in revenue in 2016
“We are hoping to get more towards 50 K.”
Ari Ewan Jun 4, 2016 ▶ 6:26 Is It Possible To Launch a Startup And a Baby At The Same Time? EP 257: Arry Yu
Disclosure
Arry Yu is running Giftstarter with an eight-week-old newborn
“I just had a baby two two months ago, eight weeks ago. And so my mother has been coming over, helping take care of the baby while I do work stuff.”
Ari Ewan Jun 4, 2016 ▶ 8:49 Is It Possible To Launch a Startup And a Baby At The Same Time? EP 257: Arry Yu

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Is It Possible To Launch a Startup And a Baby At The Same Time? EP 257: Arry Yu Jun 4, 2016 6m
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