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Justin Kan: Many Silicon Valley Startups Succeed Despite Management, Driven by PMF
“I think a lot of companies in Silicon Valley, Kind of succeed despite their management, actually, not because of it. And what I mean by that is, like, the idea was so good that a bunch of 25 year olds could run the company, right? That core product market fit …”
Justin Kan: First-Time Founders Must Take Market Risk, Veterans Execution Risk
“When you have nothing going for you, except for you're like willing to put in hard amount, you know, like long hours and a lot of blood, sweat, and tears Then you should focus on things that are like, where there's a lot of market risk, because ideas where the…”
Justin Kan: Repeat Founders Have No Advantage Finding Consumer Product-Market Fit
“Like, I don't have any advantage in finding product market fit with a consumer app more than the twenty-two-year-old Justin.”
Justin Kan: Emmett Shear Was the Only Founder Who Believed in Twitch
“When we pivoted Justin TV to Twitch, nobody believed that there would, and this was a market, right? No one believed, no investors, very few of our, even internal employees like believe, and even the founders were skeptical. You know, Emmett deserves the credi…”
Justin Kan Was Too Rich to Waste Time With Slow Seed Rounds
“But for me personally, you know, where it's an execution risk business, I'm too rich to like, Fuck around with the like, you know, ok, I'm just going to do a seed round and like, and just like take a long time, right? Like for me, speed to market and execution…”
Justin Kan: Atrium Raised Seed Funding From Over 90 Silicon Valley Investors
“And so we ended up going out and raising money for our seed round of, you know, over 90 different investors from all over Silicon Valley because I felt like it would be really good to have those investors on our side and recommending Atrium as a channel partne…”
Justin Kan: Silicon Valley Success Creates Paradox of Choice for Founders
“So once you become, you know, successful in some way in Silicon Valley, whether that's, you know, you've been executive at a company that's, you know, rocket ship unicorn, or you've started a company, you know, the world opens up, right? People want you to be …”
Justin Kan: Outlier Consumer Internet Ideas Require Founders With Nothing to Lose
“It takes a lot of people who have nothing to lose to discover those ideas.”
Justin Kan: Startup Scaling Issues Always Center on Alignment and Executive Talent
“Obviously, the problems are always the same, actually. The problems are always, like, I don't have the right alignment among my team, and I don't have the right executive team. It's usually some variation of those things”
Justin Kan: Unintentional Culture Becomes an Accidental Collection of Leader Quirks
“When you're not intentional about your culture or type of company you want to be, then you make your, the culture ends up being the accidental collection of good and bad choices and like personality quirks and good and bad behaviors.”
Justin Kan: Startup Success or Failure Does Not Alter Baseline Happiness
“The way that you win that battle is right by really Internalizing and realizing that whatever happens, you're gonna be fine. And you're probably going to be the same. You're not going to be happier or less happy actually. And now most people do not actually su…”
Justin Kan: The Best Entrepreneurs Stick With One Company for Decades
“The best entrepreneurs here The ones who have created lasting companies and lasting value, they stick with their thing for decades, you know, and that's what impresses me most now, and I wish that I had kind of realized that, you know, before.”
Justin Kan: Kiko Co-Founders Paid Themselves $700 to $800 Every Other Month
“We started off, you know, really, like, paying ourselves I think with Kiko, seven, 800 dollars a month, but we only paid ourselves every other month”