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Scott Hansbury

Co-Founder and CEO, Enyrgy Inc. · 1 appearance on the record.

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Scott Hansbury is a veteran entrepreneur who co-founded and served as COO and CEO of YouStake, a sports and poker crowdfunding platform backed by 500 Startups. Across a multi-decade technology career, he has operated and scaled multiple early-stage ventures to successful exits, including a $400 million acquisition by Sun Microsystems.

10statements → 8claims → 2claims resolved → 3.9/5average certainty → 1.3/5average debate potential →

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 5 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

8 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 5 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 Scott 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
Sun Microsystems Acquired HighGround Systems for $400 Million
“We ended up accepting an offer from Sun Microsystems for four hundred million.”
Scott Hansbury Mar 29, 2016 ▶ 3:49 How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
YouStake Structures Poker Staking Legalities as Income Share Agreements
“Oh yeah, absolutely. It's what's called a person to person sponsorship or a income share agreement is, is really what the legal term is. There's actually IRS forms that you fill in when you do your taxes for it. So it's all been approved.”
Scott Hansbury Mar 29, 2016 ▶ 8:20 How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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100% certainty 4
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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 Scott Hansbury on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

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

Assertion Contradicted
YouStake Structures Poker Staking Legalities as Income Share Agreements
“Oh yeah, absolutely. It's what's called a person to person sponsorship or a income share agreement is, is really what the legal term is. There's actually IRS forms that you fill in when you do your taxes for it. So it's all been approved.”
Scott Hansbury Mar 29, 2016 ▶ 8:20 How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hansbury: There are 100M poker fans globally, with 60M in the US
“There's actually a hundred million poker fans worldwide, sixty million of which is in the U.S., And of all those, one percent of that is actual players.”
Scott Hansbury Mar 29, 2016 ▶ 12:35 How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206
Assertion Supported
Sun Microsystems Acquired HighGround Systems for $400 Million
“We ended up accepting an offer from Sun Microsystems for four hundred million.”
Scott Hansbury Mar 29, 2016 ▶ 3:49 How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206
Assertion Not checkable as stated
HighGround Systems Generated $15M Annual Revenue at Acquisition
“The revenue at that time was right around fifteen million. Annually.”
Scott Hansbury Mar 29, 2016 ▶ 4:04 How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206
Assertion Not checkable as stated
YouStake Processed $2.8M in Listings and $1.4M in Pledges Over Six Months
“So in the six months that we launched, we've had 2.8 million dollars in stakes put up on the site. So that's kind of the supply side. And then we've had 1.4 million pledges against those stakes.”
Scott Hansbury Mar 29, 2016 ▶ 11:15 How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hansbury: YouStake has 2,700 users and roughly 250 highly active backers
“There's 2700 users right now, and out of that 2700 users, we've got about 250 of them that are pretty, you know, really active, multiple stakes on multiple people. And then we've got, you know, probably another 150 to 200 that are just, you know, casually here…”
Scott Hansbury Mar 29, 2016 ▶ 14:31 How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206
Disclosure
Hansbury: YouStake takes a 5% net fee on poker staking raises
“No, no, we're taking, we actually get five percent. There's eight percent added to the raise, but five percent goes to us. That's our fee. And the other 2.9% basically is, is the merchant fee that goes to the, you know, credit card and PayPal and those kinds o…”
Scott Hansbury Mar 29, 2016 ▶ 15:08 How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
HighGround Systems Raised Around $25M–$30M Prior to Exit
“Probably about 25 to thirty million.”
Scott Hansbury Mar 29, 2016 ▶ 4:13 How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206
Disclosure
Hansbury: YouStake closed a $400,000 convertible note seed tranche
“In fact, we just closed our first tranche of 400 K.”
Scott Hansbury Mar 29, 2016 ▶ 8:54 How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hansbury: YouStake is achieving over 20% month-over-month user growth
“In our six months that we've been in, in business it's really started to pick up and we're hitting those 20 plus percent month over month growth for adding new users.”
Scott Hansbury Mar 29, 2016 ▶ 16:12 How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206 Mar 29, 2016 10m
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