Jack Peterson

Founder, INDY BioLabs · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jack Peterson holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics from UCSF and co-founded Augur, an early decentralized prediction market platform built on Ethereum. He co-authored the original Augur whitepaper and later turned to decentralized science and open biology tools at INDY BioLabs.

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3 assertions · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 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 Jack 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
Peterson: Augur operates as a peer-to-peer prediction market without centralized house
“The people in the market set the price. So you're actually, you're not trading like with Augur. You're trading with other participants in the market. Normally the person who initially creates the market will set up an order book, right? So they'll have initial…”
Jack Peterson Aug 27, 2017 ▶ 8:17 764: He Raised $5.3m in Token Offering on Etherum Blockchain to help you bet on future events

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

Assertion Supported
Peterson: Augur operates as a peer-to-peer prediction market without centralized house
“The people in the market set the price. So you're actually, you're not trading like with Augur. You're trading with other participants in the market. Normally the person who initially creates the market will set up an order book, right? So they'll have initial…”
Jack Peterson Aug 27, 2017 ▶ 8:17 764: He Raised $5.3m in Token Offering on Etherum Blockchain to help you bet on future events
Assertion Supported
Peterson: Augur does not handle money transmission or fiat conversion
“We don't, we're not actually involved in converting US dollars to anything else. We're, we don't get involved with money transmission or anything like that. We don't distribute ether either.”
Jack Peterson Aug 27, 2017 ▶ 12:00 764: He Raised $5.3m in Token Offering on Etherum Blockchain to help you bet on future events
Assertion Supported
Peterson: REP tokens confer market resolution rights, not profit sharing
“Basically, there, it's, you, Pete, if you have REP, you have a stake in the system, not in the sense of having a stake in the profits from the system, but in helping to resolve markets on the system after you know, the market's complete.”
Jack Peterson Aug 27, 2017 ▶ 17:11 764: He Raised $5.3m in Token Offering on Etherum Blockchain to help you bet on future events
Disclosure
Peterson: Augur raised $5.3M in crypto in August-September 2015
“We raised 5.3 million dollars. In August and September of 2015. ... It was 5.3 million in crypto. 5.3 million dollars equivalent in crypto.”
Jack Peterson Aug 27, 2017 ▶ 17:57 764: He Raised $5.3m in Token Offering on Etherum Blockchain to help you bet on future events
Disclosure
Peterson: Augur will embed ShapeShift and Coinbase plugins for onboarding
“Augur will have little plugins like that. There'll be one for shapeshifts and one for Coinbase.”
Jack Peterson Aug 27, 2017 ▶ 14:04 764: He Raised $5.3m in Token Offering on Etherum Blockchain to help you bet on future events
Disclosure
Peterson: Augur pays team in US dollars converted from crypto
“So we actually for the most part, our payroll is just in, in US dollars. ... But the well, we, so we raised money in cryptocurrency and have, you know, converted some of it to US dollars for payroll.”
Jack Peterson Aug 27, 2017 ▶ 17:38 764: He Raised $5.3m in Token Offering on Etherum Blockchain to help you bet on future events

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Appearances (1)

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764: He Raised $5.3m in Token Offering on Etherum Blockchain to help you bet on future eve Aug 27, 2017 11m
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