Applied to YC for product engineer role -Garry, your advice in the comments on building vs investing few months ago had some impact in me taking this leap
Love that MAYC shirt! But more importantly: Great video with so many valuable lessons for folks like me that otherwise wouldn’t really have access to your minds! So huge thanks for that 🙏
The last topic is something I've been thinking about and I'd love to get your opinion as someone interested in becoming a successful investor like yourself. Which path is more valuable to helping portfolio companies: joining a VC firm after going through an exit as a founder or spending a decade to rise the ranks at a VC firm and see how different startups play out as you've mentioned?
People should be at the center of things, though. The fact that a company can absorb disfunctionality is not more relevant than people's well-being. There is an enormous amount of companies/managers lacking management expertise (both business and people management expertise). They negatively impact the economic and social space, people's sanity and well-being. Lives and generations are affected. And for what?
Awesome interview, and inspiring as always! Sending good vibes from Brisbane, Queensland-Australia. How can I chat with you and Harj concerning our Global initiative/venture?
If they sold it to facebook, They would end up selling the majority of the shares before reaching 500M. When you are young you need money. You'll neve leave your equity in a firm in a long term no matter what.
Hey Garry Tan, I am working on a new Tech startup and messaged you in linkedIN, I am trying to reach Initialized Capital, please check your Network (name - Rajsuthan Gopinath)
love how this video is made among 2 amazing people exchanging idea and sharing that matters to the growth of company!
Love these vids, thanks Garry! Harj is great - he was one of my fave partners in our YC batch (W22).
yayyy y’all were an instrumental part of us and yc summer 2012. i remember that heroku steak dinner btw :)
Love this
Applied to YC for product engineer role -Garry, your advice in the comments on building vs investing few months ago had some impact in me taking this leap
Congratulations Garry for being nominated as CEO at YC💐🎉
Love this - such high production quality too!!
Love that MAYC shirt!
But more importantly: Great video with so many valuable lessons for folks like me that otherwise wouldn’t really have access to your minds! So huge thanks for that 🙏
Loving those interviews!
Pure gold
It was awesome to hear Harj’s perspective over so many years of startups!
Definitely appreciate this interview Garry. Learned a lot just from this chat. Keep it up.
Hopefully they accept me startup idea I'm all the way from south africa 🇿🇦 , great interview by the way 👍 🙏 🙌 😀
Goodluck, I'm applying next year also from south africa 🇿🇦.
don't listen to anyone. Just do it --> case closed.
Harj has a nice t-shirt, wonder what brand that is. I love it when tech people wear quality clothes!
Watching this video for the third time. The same content watched at different stages of your growth is interpreted differently
Garry sweet video! Will you be at LATech week 😅
The last topic is something I've been thinking about and I'd love to get your opinion as someone interested in becoming a successful investor like yourself. Which path is more valuable to helping portfolio companies: joining a VC firm after going through an exit as a founder or spending a decade to rise the ranks at a VC firm and see how different startups play out as you've mentioned?
Founder first always
I left my job at Rippling and regret a bit. Not 200M but around 30M.
Hope you at least hit the cliff! :-)
People should be at the center of things, though. The fact that a company can absorb disfunctionality is not more relevant than people's well-being.
There is an enormous amount of companies/managers lacking management expertise (both business and people management expertise). They negatively impact the economic and social space, people's sanity and well-being. Lives and generations are affected. And for what?
Would love to connect, do you do 15 min intros with startup founders? Based on what we've gone, I think it would be a good fit with you.
Failure is one more tool in a learning process which, with maximum concentration and performance, we can speed up.
wowow there is a PHP/MYSQL book in the shelf niceeee
Not a zero sum game 🔥
Thank you for share that advices 👋 and hi from Ukraine
Thank you!!
Garry, great video! Thank you. Is there a contact to send a startup deck or other way to pitch to a partner from the Initialized Capital?
Great talk!
Garry pulled Namaste 🙏 on Harj.. epic 😂
Wow!!!!! This is crazy!!!!
Awesome interview, and inspiring as always!
Sending good vibes from Brisbane, Queensland-Australia.
How can I chat with you and Harj concerning our Global initiative/venture?
If they sold it to facebook, They would end up selling the majority of the shares before reaching 500M. When you are young you need money. You'll neve leave your equity in a firm in a long term no matter what.
I actually have this idea, I'm going to sell my Blockchain tech company as a NFT
Experts were right, Facebook is cringe now
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East or west, I am first
Early gang
Hey Garry Tan, I am working on a new Tech startup and messaged you in linkedIN, I am trying to reach Initialized Capital, please check your Network (name - Rajsuthan Gopinath)