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Garry Tan

9 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 14, 2016 by Garry Tan · said 126 times in 43 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (53), Jason Lemkin (30), Alexis Ohanian (14), Ooshma Garg (4), Keith Rabois (4), Ted Blosser (3), Tom Blomfield (2), Mike Maples (1)

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Dec 14, 2016 bullish
Opinion
Sequoia's early investment in Unity was the best AR/VR play
“On the flip side, the funny thing about AR, VR is probably the most valuable thing to invest in as Sequoia already did, which was Unity.”
Garry Tan Dec 14, 2016 ▶ 10:28 20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
Dec 14, 2016
Disclosure
Tan turned down being Palantir's first engineer due to media sentiment
“Why did I turn down being first engineer at Palantir? I spent a lot of time trying to figure that out, and it actually came out of this thinking, because this is why I'm very, very careful about it, that when I was 23 and I got an offer from one of the best in…”
Garry Tan Dec 14, 2016 ▶ 21:07 20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
Dec 14, 2016
Insight
Tech common knowledge is a delayed retelling of early founder work
“At the end of the day, what is sort of common knowledge is basically the second or third hand retelling of something that super smart people were working on in a basement six months or nine months before.”
Garry Tan Dec 14, 2016 ▶ 22:12 20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
Dec 14, 2016 neutral
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Initialized Capital will remain strictly focused on the 0-20 employee stage
“Yeah, I think we should be disciplined around, well, We really should focus on the zero to 20 employee sort of stage. I think there are tons and tons of people out there who are fantastically great scaling operator, like series A and later investors. But for u…”
Garry Tan Dec 14, 2016 ▶ 24:14 20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
Dec 14, 2016 neutral
Prediction Held up
Initialized Capital targets 20 investments per year to maintain founder support
“For us, the right trade-off is we think that we can work with about 20 companies per year and really spend quite a lot of time with them bi-weekly to monthly meetings all the way through until they're Series A.”
Garry Tan Dec 14, 2016 ▶ 18:10 20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
Dec 14, 2016 neutral
Disclosure
Initialized is waiting for the next computing platform before big bets
“And so, you know, we are frankly are waiting for that platform and it's anyone's guess when that will be.”
Garry Tan Dec 14, 2016 ▶ 11:16 20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
Apr 1, 2019 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Tan: More product builders and engineers will enter early-stage VC
“Over time, I think it'll change radically, because I think we'll have quite a lot more people helping people at that very earliest stage, that kind of background.”
Garry Tan Apr 1, 2019 ▶ 4:44 20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals
Apr 1, 2019
Insight
Tan: Operational VC coaching adds more value at pre-seed than post-Series A
“Post series A, series B, and later in particular, it really is about care and feeding the organization. So as a company, you've already chosen your direction. In fact, often you've chosen your go-to-market. And so now it's about taking that go-to-market and sc…”
Garry Tan Apr 1, 2019 ▶ 9:23 20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals
May 30, 2022 negative
Disclosure
Rabois: Passing on an early Coinbase meeting was a massive mistake
“Is this the, you know, whatever, let's say Coinbase that I, you know, was introduced to very, very early by Gary, who really, Gary Tan, who really wanted me to invest. And, you know, I basically wrote back. I really didn't want to meet them, even though I actu…”
Keith Rabois May 30, 2022 ▶ 31:03 Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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