I asked my friend and colleague Andrew Lee to sit down with me and talk through some of the advice we give very frequently to our founders. This isn't intended to be a comprehensive guide, but most...
I was 23 and didn’t know anything about startups. Peter Thiel offered me a big equity stake and a full year’s salary to quit my stable job at Microsoft and join a startup he was starting. It wasn’t...
Whether you’re a pilot flying a plane or a CEO running a company, it’s clear that there are ways you can minimize the chances of crashing into the ground.
Emotion drives our decisionmaking (see USC professor Antonio Damasio’s groundbreaking research here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wup_K2WN0I), but what do we do about emotions that we refuse to...
Hi, I’m Garry Tan, venture capitalist and cofounder at Initialized Capital. We were earliest investors in billion dollar startups like Coinbase and Instacart, and we’re spending time with some of o...
Cofounders are the #1 thing that can make your startup. Having a true partner means you will overcome a lot more than you might when doing it all alone. But cofounder conflict is also the #1 reason...
When you travel away from home and you have young kids, you try to max out your days away so you have to be away for fewer days. This day in September 2019 (the 24th to be exact) was no exception: ...