Garry Tan's Blog

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Garry Tan's essays and video interviews on startups, investing, design, leadership, and technology. Latest feed post: July 2020.

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How founders can build Trust & Safety teams #Startups #Leadership #Business
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Jul 29, 2020
Micromanagement is toxic: Delegation is the cure (6 simple steps) #Management #Leadership #Startups
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Jul 21, 2020
Sell? Die? No. Grow profitably. How Ooshma Garg and Gobble did it and why default alive matters #Startups #Business #Growth
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Jul 14, 2020
Hans Tung and the 16 unicorns: How a global venture capitalist funds billion dollar startups #VentureCapital #Startups #Business
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Jul 9, 2020
How Postel's Law enabled the proto-Internet and set the culture for the future of humanity #Internet #History #Culture
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Jun 30, 2020
Roll your way to a billion dollar startup - Advice for founders from Katamari Damacy #Startups #Founders #Business
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Jun 15, 2020
Changing the world can make you insane, but it doesn't have to (5 tips) #Startups #Leadership #Motivation
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May 19, 2020
Metaprogram your own mind: A conversation with Cameron Yarbrough of Torch.io #Startups #Leadership #Productivity
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May 13, 2020
Building General AI with D Scott Phoenix, founder of Vicarious #AI #Startups #Technology
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May 6, 2020
Six skills for startup success: What founders can do to improve their chances before they take the plunge #Startups #Leadership #Business
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Apr 28, 2020
Timebox your way to startup product market fit #Startups #Product #Management
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Apr 22, 2020
Masterclass on Remote Work: Management with empathy, fostering a values-based culture (Part 2 of 2) #RemoteWork #Leadership #Culture
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Apr 14, 2020
Should you work on that startup idea? Ask: Why me? Why now? #Startups #Entrepreneurship #Investing
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Apr 7, 2020
Masterclass on Remote Work: Hiring, recruiting, and essential tools (Part 1 of 2) #RemoteWork #Startups #Hiring
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Apr 1, 2020
Masterclass: How to sell to 20M software developers with an amazing onboarding experience #Startups #Software #Business
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Mar 11, 2020
Stories from China Tech that don't get reported: A conversation with Rui Ma of Tech Buzz China #China #Tech #Startups
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Mar 4, 2020
Andrew and Garry's Guide to Selling Your Startup #Startups #Business #Entrepreneurship
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Feb 28, 2020
Email overload is the first sign you need to scale yourself #Productivity #Startups #Leadership
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Feb 21, 2020
How to bend a spoon with your mind #Mindset #Productivity #Innovation
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Feb 12, 2020
What to do when someone steals your idea #Startups #IntellectualProperty #BusinessStrategy
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Feb 5, 2020
Parker Conrad on building eng teams outside of SF and why engineers must do customer support (Part 2) #Startups #Engineering #Leadership
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Jan 29, 2020
The 4 Habits of Auteurs That Made Hideo Kojima's Video Game Masterpiece, Death Stranding #Gaming #Design #Leadership
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Jan 20, 2020
Parker Conrad's hard-won billion dollar startup lessons: Do unscalable things, but then actually scale it (Part 1) #Startups #Business #Leadership
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Jan 13, 2020
Storytelling for your Series A, with Initialized Partner Andrew Lee #Startups #Investing #Leadership
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Jan 6, 2020
Nikola Tesla predicted the smartphone: Now the world is forming into a global brain #Tech #Future #Innovation
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Dec 29, 2019
Working for Microsoft cost me $200 million #Startups #Investing #Business
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Dec 23, 2019
How to double profit margins for the most competitive industry in the world with software #Software #Business #Startups
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Dec 19, 2019
Avoiding the cofounder trap: The #1 thing that can help a startup is also the #1 thing that could destroy it #Startup #Business #Leadership
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Sep 29, 2019
My newest YouTube video: Meet Jake Klamka who made Insight Fellows, the world's next applied graduate school for data and engineering #Startups #Education #Technology
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Sep 23, 2019
My three tips for your Y Combinator application as a former YC partner (video) #Startups #Investing #YC
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Sep 18, 2019