Meet Andrew Chen: How to Be Successful in Silicon Valley

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

How do you react when things DON'T go your way? Everything seemed great for Andrew Chen — and then it all came crashing down. In one day, 50% of his employees quit. But Andrew didn't let that stop him: Today, Andrew is the current Head of Rider Growth at Uber and an advisor to Tinder, Product Hunt, Sumo, and more. In this podcast, hear how Andrew pushed through the struggles to make it big. Use Andrew's lesson to succeed in your career, business, and life.

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0:00.0	That was like, one of the first points in my journey where things were like not going the way that I wanted.
0:07.0	Up to that point, it was like we had raised a bunch of money and we had like the Palo Alto office and we were like working on a product
0:13.9	that was getting a bunch of traction and like all this great stuff was
0:16.6	happening but this is the first point where some things that we didn't want
0:20.0	to happen ended up happening. Welcome to Noah Kagan presents.
0:27.0	What up party people, it's your boy, Kresson, aka Rabbi Can't Lose, aka
0:35.4	Noah Kagan. In today's episode I have one of my oldest and bestest friends
0:39.5	Andrew Chen. Let me give you a little backstory on him. He graduated college at 17. Yes, he is the
0:46.3	product of Tiger Parents. He sold his BitTorrent company for a lot of money back in the day as well.
0:52.1	He created a YouTube site with me. We try to compete
0:54.4	with them called FatCast. It's not around and we failed. Today he currently works at
0:58.8	Uber and he is one of the main advisors and the only investor in Summa.com and
1:03.5	app Summa.com the companies I help run. In this episode it's a really
1:07.1	interesting conversation about how do you actually establish yourself.
1:10.4	Andrew went from knowing almost no one to knowing you you know, Mark Andreeson and super famous people and really well connected in Silicon Valley. How did he do it?
1:18.0	Andrew's experience running his own company and maybe why you shouldn't start your own. He actually went through a day where
1:24.0	half of his team quit and how he dealt with that. We talk about that and how we run sumo and
1:29.2	a bunch more enjoy. Enjoy.
1:39.5	So starting at the beginning of your Silicon Valley career, so you came here knowing no one, right? You literally just had me and then a few other friends from Washington and in 12 months like you are an EAR at
1:45.6	MDV you or associated with Mark Andreessen you got Mitch Kapoor and these like really
1:50.3	high-name profile people yeah got a blog that was read by almost the whole valley.
1:54.8	Can you walk me through how you're able to do that?
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