What makes you new, different, and unique in the world will often be the exact thing that makes you succeed. Embrace your differences, and you’ll find something amazing in there. Learn how founders like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Ryan Petersen of Flexport, and Jack Conte of Patreon did exactly that: learn things from unique personal experiences that put them on the right path.
And if you can do that, you avoid infinite competition. You can make something truly awesome.
Stop wasting your life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLelgy5zRv4&t=2s
How to get rich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hdu4DlnLIk&t=7s
What to do after raising money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khY3REOst-A&t=0s
00:00 Intro
01:52 Steve Jobs on Unique Experiences
03:04 How Ryan Petersen's experiences led him to make Flexport
04:26 How Jack Conte's experiences led him to make Patreon
05:24 You don't have to be novel
06:01 Great startups start as toys
06:43 Paul Graham on startup ideas
Read How to get Startup Ideas by Paul Graham — http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
Beats by Homage Beats - 5am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on4gBvEyfCg&ab_channel=HomageBeats
I’m Garry Tan, venture capitalist and founder at Initialized Capital. We were earliest investors in billion dollar startups like Coinbase and Instacart, and I’m a Forbes Midas List Top 100 venture capitalist in the world. We want these videos to be about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people. Our startups have gone on to create more than $40 billion in market value so far, and Initialized has over $770M in assets under management. I’m doing my own one man YouTube channel with no staff or crew — we're going for raw and unfiltered, not perfect.
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