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Garry Tan

How Airbnb and DoorDash Succeeded: First Principles

What society imposes on us is the wrong kind of thinking: one that is based on analogy and credentialism instead of first…

December 21, 2020 Garry Tan Uncategorized

Spotting the inflection point: How Initialized Helped Coinbase at the moment of product market fit

In 2013, I was helping Brian Armstrong get introductions to the Valley’s best investors.

December 17, 2020 Garry Tan Uncategorized
Cryptocurrency

Solving the $160 billion food waste problem

How Shelf Engine got 4 of the top 10 grocers and reached product market fit through a perfect go-to-market pivot Stefan Kalb…

November 11, 2020 Garry Tan Uncategorized
FoodTechNews From Us

5 Steps to Winning Career Tournaments

There are tournaments everywhere–jobs, admissions, promotions, startup funding.

November 10, 2020 Garry Tan Uncategorized
FundraisingNews From Us

Better, Faster, Cheaper

Being First Doesn’t Matter— But You Do Need To Be Better, Faster, Or Cheaper.

November 5, 2020 Garry Tan Uncategorized
News From Us

The future of practical robotaxis is here

Autonomous car with no safety driver for $50M, not $10B You’ve heard of Waymo and Cruise (Initialized was actually an early seed…

November 2, 2020 Garry Tan Uncategorized
HardwareNews From UsRobotics

Should you be the CEO?

Just because co-CEO worked for Google doesn’t mean it will for your startup Picture this… it’s 2010, and me and my co-founder…

October 29, 2020 Garry Tan Uncategorized
CultureNews From Us

How Drip Capital Went from Zero to $1B

Software is coming to revolutionize global trade finance Drip Capital started as two people with an idea in 2015.

October 28, 2020 Garry Tan Uncategorized
FintechNews From Us

I Said the Wrong Thing and Killed My Investor Pitch

Often the easiest choice is to make no choice at all, but you might kill your startup that way Picture this… we…

October 15, 2020 Garry Tan Uncategorized
FundraisingNews From Us

What do all successful billion dollar startups have in common?

They build long-lived teams that beat all competition How long do you think it takes to win a championship?

October 8, 2020 Garry Tan Uncategorized
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