Garry Tan - $40B in Startup Value (Initialized Capital)

That Creative Life

Sara Dietschy

Business, Design, Gary Vee, Technology, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Sara Dietschy, Sara Peachy, Arts, Filmmaking, Youtube, Gary Vee Audio Experience

4.8 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Garry Tan is co-founder of Initialized Capital - a venture firm with $40B in value and a focus on early stage startups. He got his start as a program manager at Microsoft and later co-founded Posterous and Posthaven. He was a partner at Y Combinator from 2011-2015. Garry also shares his startup wisdom every week on his YouTube channel. GARRY TAN https://initialized.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/garrytan Twitter: https://twitter.com/garrytan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/garrytan/ THAT CREATIVE LIFE PODCAST Website: https://www.thatcreative.life/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/thatcrtvlife/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatcreative.life/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thatcreativelife Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/Podcast_Apple Spotify: http://bit.ly/Podcast_Spotify Google: http://bit.ly/Podcast_GooglePod THE HOST, SARA DIETSCHY YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/saradietschy/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saradietschy/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/saradietschy Welcome to That Creative Life, hosted by YouTuber & creative entrepreneur Sara Dietschy. On this podcast you will find candid conversations with the best artists and business professionals in the world. Artists, YouTubers, CEOs and everyone in-between. More information and content from the podcast can be found on Sara Dietschy's YouTube channel, Twitter & Instagram (@SaraDietschy) and also @ThatCreative.Life on Instagram, @thatcrtvlife on Twitter. 💼 Business Inquiries [email protected] cc me at [email protected]

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0:00.0	Welcome to That Creative Life.
0:05.0	Hi, my name is Saradici and I am your host.
0:08.9	I talk with artists, YouTuber, CEOs, and everyone in between.
0:13.1	I hope this podcast helps you live your best creative life.
0:16.8	Enjoy.
0:18.1	Yes, okay, we're gonna start this pod off. We're already talking about so much gear. I think Gary, We're going to start this pod off.
0:21.5	We're already talking about so much gear.
0:23.2	I think Gary were both gearheads.
0:25.3	Major gearhead.
0:26.8	I think that's obvious.
0:27.7	And everyone who I've talked to who has built something in their life is there's obvious
0:33.8	passion, whether it's tech, whether it's, you know, for me, I feel like it was guitar in the
0:39.0	beginning days. And you have this kind of like obsessive quality about things. And that seems to be like
0:44.8	a very common theme. And so I'm just going to intro you real quick. So you're the founder and
0:50.2	managing partner of initialized capital. Your co-founder is Alexis O'Hannion, who is very an outspoken, awesome individual co-founder
0:59.0	of Reddit.
1:00.8	So initialize the little tagline is we fund tech companies before product fit.
1:05.5	So you have companies like Coinbase, Instacar, over $40 billion in market value and you make YouTube videos.
1:13.2	Oh yeah. I love YouTube. I love that so much. So that's why I'm so excited to chat with you.
1:17.7	But going back to what I was just saying, what was that for you? What were you obsessed with as a kid
1:24.2	that kind of was the first thing in your journey to then becoming, you know,
1:29.0	working at Microsoft to building companies and to where you are now.
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