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The Founder Mindset You Need

Most founders pursue ideas that are very short term with wild optimism.

January 8, 2021 Garry Tan Uncategorized

Trillions of dollars in real estate— How do we fund the future we want to live in?

Housing is a trillion dollar industry.

January 4, 2021 Garry Tan Uncategorized
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Billion dollar startup ideas

What makes you new, different, and unique in the world will often be the exact thing that makes you succeed.

December 23, 2020 Garry Tan Uncategorized

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
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Wish goes public as e-commerce Boom Continues

Congratulations to Wish on its initial public offering today!

December 16, 2020 Alda Dennis Uncategorized
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Transcribing the World for the Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing Community with Ava

Ava delivers superior AI-based captioning products that meet the standards of 460 million Deaf & hard-of-hearing people — a uniquely engaged audience…

December 10, 2020 Alda Dennis Uncategorized
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Initializing 1 Billion Careers with Career Karma

With nearly 70 million Americans filing for unemployment since March, the pandemic has hurtled the U.S.

December 9, 2020 Kim-Mai Cutler Uncategorized
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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
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5 Steps to Winning Career Tournaments

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

November 10, 2020 Garry Tan Uncategorized
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