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Joe Betts-Lacroix

Co-founder & CEO, Retro Biosciences · 1 appearance on the record.

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Joe Betts-Lacroix is a biophysicist and entrepreneur leading Retro Biosciences, a longevity biotechnology company pursuing therapies to extend healthy human lifespan. He previously co-founded OQO and Vium, and served as a partner at Y Combinator.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

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

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What the tape says about how Joe 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
Betts-Lacroix: Mint scaled by scraping bank websites using voluntarily submitted credentials
“So a friend of mine, Aaron Patzer, created something called Mint and ended up taking a bunch of eyeballs from big banks and other financial companies by hacking, essentially going, doing adversarial interoperability with their websites by scraping, which is so…”
Joe Betts-Lacroix Nov 27, 2019 ▶ 6:31 Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator

Everything Joe Betts-Lacroix said on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Betts-Lacroix: Mint scaled by scraping bank websites using voluntarily submitted credentials
“So a friend of mine, Aaron Patzer, created something called Mint and ended up taking a bunch of eyeballs from big banks and other financial companies by hacking, essentially going, doing adversarial interoperability with their websites by scraping, which is so…”
Joe Betts-Lacroix Nov 27, 2019 ▶ 6:31 Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Betts-Lacroix: Amazon's surveillance monopoly will be entrenched by police partnerships
“Or Amazon is now involved in video surveillance on the, at the behest, as you were saying, of police forces all over the country. And that's a situation where they have this creeping, growing monopoly power but it's going to be likely enshrined or ennobled, as…”
Joe Betts-Lacroix Nov 27, 2019 ▶ 28:56 Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Betts-Lacroix: Y Combinator accepts fantastic founders with terrible ideas
“A lot of founders come into the YC with terrible ideas but they're like, sometimes when they're fantastic founders, they're like, let's just accept them anyway, because I know that The, when they're exposed to the richness of this network and the community her…”
Joe Betts-Lacroix Nov 27, 2019 ▶ 55:37 Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator Nov 27, 2019 6m
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