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The a16z Show

a16z Podcast: 10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan

The a16z Show

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Entrepreneurship, Culture, Disruption, Innovation, Science, Software Eating The World, Business, Technology

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Want actionable advice from a founder who has built multiple tech companies and has invested the time to be open, introspective, and transparent about lessons learned? In this episode (which originally aired as a YouTube video), a16z General Partner...

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0:05.6

or investment advice, or be used to evaluate any investment or security, and is not directed

0:10.3

at any investors or potential investors in any A16Z fund.

0:14.2

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Hey, I'm Andrew Chen from Injries and Horwitz, and today we have Justin Kahn, who is one of our

0:24.2

repeat entrepreneurs that we are very excited to be working with on Atrium.

0:28.9

And so we're going to talk a bunch about what is it like to be a repeat entrepreneur?

0:33.4

I think we were just going through the list.

0:34.8

There's like five different companies on there.

0:39.7

And you've learned a ton from every single one. And so we're going to do a series of sort of compare and contrast across quite a number of

0:44.4

topics.

0:45.4

But as a very first step, I think it would be awesome to have Justin talk about some of the

0:50.8

companies that you've been involved in.

0:53.8

And I know the the

0:54.6

company you were running when we first met where you're running around with a

0:56.9

camera on your head is not actually even your first one there's one before that

1:00.8

called Kiko so why don't you talk about Kiko first sure yeah so I've been an

1:04.4

internet entrepreneur here for the last 14 years since 2005 our very first

1:09.8

company was called Kiko it It was kind of like Google

1:12.0

Calendar, but it came out one month before Google Calendar came out and wasn't really that good

1:18.2

when I'm honest about it. And so that company didn't work out super good. We ended up fire selling

1:24.9

it on eBay after several failed acquisition attempts with the

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