Isaac Hayes III

Founder and CEO, Fanbase · 1 appearance on the record.

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Isaac Hayes III founded Fanbase, a subscription- and micropayment-based social network platform built to empower creators to directly monetize their work. The son of soul artist Isaac Hayes, he also manages his father's estate and music catalog after a career producing music for hip-hop and R&B artists.

11statements → 9claims → 2claims resolved → 3.64/5average certainty → 1.45/5average debate potential →

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 7 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

9 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 7 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 Isaac 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
Fanbase raised nearly $3.5M on StartEngine at a $20M valuation
“We raised about 3.4, almost 3.5 million dollars, right at 3.5 million dollars at a twenty million dollar valuation.”
Isaac Hayes III Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 8:45 Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Hayes: StartEngine does not require companies to list all revenue
“No, we don't have to always, we don't have to list all of our revenue on Start Engine. You don't have to do that.”
Isaac Hayes III Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 20:17 Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

How they sound: not measured why? →

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

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hayes: 80% of active Fanbase users have earned money on the platform
“80% of the people that have actually used the app have actually made money.”
Isaac Hayes III Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 5:41 Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume
Assertion Contradicted
Hayes: StartEngine does not require companies to list all revenue
“No, we don't have to always, we don't have to list all of our revenue on Start Engine. You don't have to do that.”
Isaac Hayes III Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 20:17 Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hayes: Average daily Fanbase user spent 85 minutes per day in 2021
“The average daily user in 2021 spent an hour and 25 minutes a day in the room for 22,021.”
Isaac Hayes III Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 14:44 Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume
Disclosure
Hayes: Fanbase has generated roughly $300,000 in post-Apple platform volume
“That's what the platform has made. Probably about 300,000.”
Isaac Hayes III Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 17:59 Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hayes: An early Fanbase creator earned $6,000 with under 10,000 total users
“One person made about 6000 dollars in a year and we had less than 10,000 users.”
Isaac Hayes III Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 3:30 Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hayes: Fanbase has reached almost 200,000 all-time downloads
“Probably almost 200,000.”
Isaac Hayes III Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 3:54 Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hayes: Fanbase gained 20,000 to 25,000 downloads over the past month
“Ooh, we just had a big uptick. Maybe, maybe 20, 25, 20,000.”
Isaac Hayes III Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 4:00 Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hayes: Fanbase creators have earned roughly $300,000 to $400,000 all-time
“Ooh, I don't know off the top, but I mean, it's, we're well over probably almost three or 400,000 dollars just thinking about all the users in our user base.”
Isaac Hayes III Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 4:34 Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume
Assertion Supported
Fanbase raised nearly $3.5M on StartEngine at a $20M valuation
“We raised about 3.4, almost 3.5 million dollars, right at 3.5 million dollars at a twenty million dollar valuation.”
Isaac Hayes III Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 8:45 Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume
Disclosure
Hayes: Fanbase takes a 20% cut on in-app purchases
“So Fanbase takes 20% of all the revenue that comes through. So it goes through in-app purchases through the Apple App Store. So for every dollar, you know, Apple and Google take 30 cents. We take 20 and we pass 50 on to the user.”
Isaac Hayes III Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 10:12 Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hayes: Fanbase has 50,000 to 60,000 monthly active users
“Our monthly active users are around 50 to 60,000.”
Isaac Hayes III Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 16:39 Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Fanbase Helps Creators Monetize, 200k Downloads, $300k in Total Volume Jan 26, 2022 11m
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