StarZero All shows Try the podcast clipper →

Ariel Camus

Founder & CEO, Microverse · 1 appearance on the record.

computed by AI from the episodes · how this works → · full disclaimer →

founderexecutiveoperator@arielcamus ↗LinkedIn ↗arielcamus.com ↗

Camus co-founded the travel app TouristEye, which was acquired by Lonely Planet in 2013, after which he served as Lonely Planet’s senior product manager. He went on to found Microverse, a Y Combinator-backed online school that trains international software engineers using a remote, peer-to-peer learning model.

11statements → 2claims → 2claims resolved → 3.82/5average certainty → 1.55/5average debate potential → 4said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted how the 2 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 assertions · 1 insight · 8 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved. 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 Ariel 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
Camus: TouristEye co-founder left Lonely Planet 3–4 months post-acquisition
“Actually my co-founder left the company, left Lonely Planet like three, three or four months after the acquisition.”
Ariel Camus Oct 22, 2016 ▶ 8:27 EP 455: Exited in 2013, Now Moving From "Job" To Startup CEO Again. How? with Ariel Camus

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Camus: Competitor Gogobot struggled despite raising $60M, souring VCs on travel
“And one of them had raised close to sixty million dollars. Which one? Gogobot. Yep. They put ads and a lot of people in a really tough place because even with that amount of money they had raised they were not doing great as a business.”
Ariel Camus Oct 22, 2016 ▶ 3:25 EP 455: Exited in 2013, Now Moving From "Job" To Startup CEO Again. How? with Ariel Camus

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 Ariel Camus on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Ariel Camus said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Contradicted
Camus: Competitor Gogobot struggled despite raising $60M, souring VCs on travel
“And one of them had raised close to sixty million dollars. Which one? Gogobot. Yep. They put ads and a lot of people in a really tough place because even with that amount of money they had raised they were not doing great as a business.”
Ariel Camus Oct 22, 2016 ▶ 3:25 EP 455: Exited in 2013, Now Moving From "Job" To Startup CEO Again. How? with Ariel Camus
Insight
Camus: Founders should abandon post-acquisition earn-outs unless the money is life-changing
“Unless it's an amount of money that will change the rest of your life, and you don't have any savings, maybe, maybe I would say it's worth spending two or three years of your life working on something that is, like, not the best thing you can be doing, but oth…”
Ariel Camus Oct 22, 2016 ▶ 8:41 EP 455: Exited in 2013, Now Moving From "Job" To Startup CEO Again. How? with Ariel Camus
Disclosure
Camus: HackerPath is building a teacherless, project-based education platform
“So we're building a new platform that is online, that doesn't have any teachers, it doesn't have any classes, it's all project based. So we have teams of students that are collaborating and learning from each other while they're building real, real world produ…”
Ariel Camus Oct 22, 2016 ▶ 6:28 EP 455: Exited in 2013, Now Moving From "Job" To Startup CEO Again. How? with Ariel Camus
Disclosure
Camus: HackerPath plans to shift from subscriptions to hiring fees
“Initially we are charging, it's a subscription model where we are charging the students. But because our goal is to make this open to everyone, our vision is to eventually make this free to everyone. And the way we think we can do that is because our goal as a…”
Ariel Camus Oct 22, 2016 ▶ 7:13 EP 455: Exited in 2013, Now Moving From "Job" To Startup CEO Again. How? with Ariel Camus
Disclosure
Camus: Lonely Planet acquired TouristEye for a seven-figure amount
“And I can't disclose the exact number, but it's a seven digits figure.”
Ariel Camus Oct 22, 2016 ▶ 3:05 EP 455: Exited in 2013, Now Moving From "Job" To Startup CEO Again. How? with Ariel Camus
Disclosure
Camus: TouristEye raised nearly $1M across two rounds before acquisition
“Yeah, we raised like, not, not a lot, like, close to one million dollars before the acquisition. The opportunity to got acquired got just when we were raising our Series A, and that million dollars that we raised that happened between two rounds, one in Europe…”
Ariel Camus Oct 22, 2016 ▶ 2:23 EP 455: Exited in 2013, Now Moving From "Job" To Startup CEO Again. How? with Ariel Camus
Disclosure
Camus: Lonely Planet reached out right as TouristEye sought buyers
“So that's why we decided to like kind of explore, ah, ways of joining a bigger company. And it was, ah, just by coincidence that Lonely Planet talked to us the week that I was exploring and talking about that opportunity with other companies.”
Ariel Camus Oct 22, 2016 ▶ 4:26 EP 455: Exited in 2013, Now Moving From "Job" To Startup CEO Again. How? with Ariel Camus
Disclosure
Camus: TouristEye's acquisition by Lonely Planet included zero earn-out requirements
“We didn't have any kind of like retainer or any reason, like any monetary reason to stay working for Lonely Planet.”
Ariel Camus Oct 22, 2016 ▶ 8:16 EP 455: Exited in 2013, Now Moving From "Job" To Startup CEO Again. How? with Ariel Camus
Disclosure
Camus: Earns roughly $150K as a product leader at Lonely Planet
“Oh, it's like in the six digit figures. So it's a good salary to have a good life in an expensive city like San Francisco. It's not like a managerial salary that is making me rich.”
Ariel Camus Oct 22, 2016 ▶ 10:07 EP 455: Exited in 2013, Now Moving From "Job" To Startup CEO Again. How? with Ariel Camus
Disclosure
Camus: Has invested $10,000 to $15,000 of personal money into HackerPath
“Oh, like 10, 15,000.”
Ariel Camus Oct 22, 2016 ▶ 12:01 EP 455: Exited in 2013, Now Moving From "Job" To Startup CEO Again. How? with Ariel Camus
Assertion Supported
Camus: TouristEye co-founder left Lonely Planet 3–4 months post-acquisition
“Actually my co-founder left the company, left Lonely Planet like three, three or four months after the acquisition.”
Ariel Camus Oct 22, 2016 ▶ 8:27 EP 455: Exited in 2013, Now Moving From "Job" To Startup CEO Again. How? with Ariel Camus

The other half of the tape: Ariel Camus's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 2 episodes on Top Founders. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Nathan Latka 4

Every mention by year

tap a year for its mentions
0021422016episodesmentions
0122016episodes it came up in
0011222016episodesmentions per episode
2016 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 455: Exited in 2013, Now Moving From "Job" To Startup CEO Again. How? with Ariel Camus Oct 22, 2016 8m
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 2,600 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.

Try the podcast clipper Learn more