Venture Capitalists make billions on startup investments, but how does it actually work? Find out in this video. Also, we're hiring! Apply to work with me at Initialized at the links below. How I Funded Coinbase and returned $300K into $2.4B - https://youtu.be/x5YApjnTG10 Apply to work at my VC fund: Partner: https://jobs.lever.co/initialized/3aa236dd-dd71-4ba7-9832-59023819a41d Principal: https://jobs.lever.co/initialized/5e9e3bb1-c4e0-402c-975b-aef32c1482c8 How I Funded Coinbase and turned $300K into $2.4B - https://youtu.be/x5YApjnTG10 How to get rich: https://youtu.be/7Hdu4DlnLIk​ Stop wasting your life: https://youtu.be/eLelgy5zRv4​ 0:00 Intro 1:16 How money and returns work 4:49 How to build the future 9:02 Why you need to think for yourself 12:45 How personal traits of VC's and startup investors 16:39 Special announcement - we're hiring! 100% of the revenue from this channel is donated to https://www.code2040.org​ - thank you for helping me help the engineers of tomorrow. I’m Garry Tan, venture capitalist and founder at Initialized Capital. We were earliest investors in billion dollar startups like Coinbase and Instacart, and I’m a Forbes Midas List Top 100 venture capitalist in the world. We want these videos to be about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people. Our startups have gone on to create more than $100 billion in market value so far, and Initialized has over $770M in assets under management. Please like this video and subscribe to my channel if you want to see more videos like this! Find me on Instagram where I can answer your startup advice questions by DM - https://instagram.com/garrytan​ https://twitter.com/garrytan​ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwvoR9mLTXM

Emotion drives our decisionmaking (see USC professor Antonio Damasio’s groundbreaking research here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wup_K2WN0I), but what do we do about emotions that we refuse to even acknowledge? Our Jungian shadows. I headed to the Big Island of Hawaii for the Lobby Conference 2019— the time away helped me think about my relationship with my own shadow: the parts of myself that drive me that I don’t even think about. This is something everyone faces, but not everyone is aware of these internal forces. The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.” — Carl Jung, Aion (1951) If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn’t a part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us - Herman Hesse “I don’t like that man, I must get to know him better.” — Abraham Lincoln Thanks to Cameron Yarbrough, Stephanie Lim, Tony C Yang, and Dani Metz Shuval for watching drafts of this. I’m Garry Tan, venture capitalist and cofounder at Initialized Capital. We were earliest investors in billion dollar startups like Coinbase and Instacart, and we’re spending time with some of our best founders to learn the secrets of their success and see the future they’re building. I’m doing my own run-and-gun one man YouTube channel with no staff or crew — we're going for raw and unfiltered, not perfect. Please like this video and subscribe to my channel if you want to see more videos like this! Learn more about the companies we fund, and how we work with them at https://initialized.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWwtXfaldl4

Here's a basic tutorial on how to use a Sony mirrorless camera as your main webcam setup for Zoom. We also sit down with the creator and founder of new teleconferencing startup Around, an Initialized portfolio company. They just launched today and have a brand new approach compared to Zoom. Here are my recommendations: CAMERA Budget option - Sony A6600 — https://amzn.to/2WogMO3 Luxury option - Sony A7R4 — https://amzn.to/2waHEXr LENS Budget - Sigma 16mm f1.4 for Sony E mount https://amzn.to/2xNPZR3 Luxury option - Sigma 35mm f1.2 for Sony E mount CAPTURE CARD Elgato Camlink 4k (Sold out on Amazon as of today) Elgato Game Capture Card HD60 S should work just as well— https://amzn.to/2WoPFm1 OTHER THINGS YOU NEED Gonine AC dummy battery and power supply (works with either Sony camera above) — https://amzn.to/3b6UqVt Cheap Tripod — https://amzn.to/3bdY0gN 6 ft AmazonBasics Micro HDMI to HDMI cable — https://amzn.to/2vBoZDM Hi, I'm Garry Tan. I'm a venture capitalist (Forbes Midas List #21 for 2019) and early investor in startups like Coinbase and Instacart. This is my one man run and gun channel— everything you see is filmed, edited, and posted by yours truly. You can follow me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/garrytan ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcjbpX7cnEI

Facebook wasn't the first social network. So maybe being first doesn't matter. But, being better, faster, or cheaper? That matters a lot. Lessons from Airbnb, Amazon, Robinhood, Coinbase, Instacart, Uber, Lyft, Discord, Flexport and Shopify. I'm getting a lot of questions from founders and future founders. I'm realizing a lot of folks are not thinking about their startups in a way that will convince people to switch to use their products or services... and if that doesn't seem like it will happen, they won't be able to build teams, or raise money either. So the self-fulfilling prophecy cannot work. This video is for those founders. Can you describe what you are doing in classic better, faster, cheaper terms? If not, you need to. 00:00 Intro 01:23 Why investors like novelty so much 02:30 How to be Better 04:41 How to be Faster 06:30 How to be Cheaper 09:06 You can figure this out -- I’m Garry Tan, venture capitalist and cofounder at Initialized Capital. I was earliest investors in billion dollar startups like Coinbase and Instacart, and I’m a Forbes Midas List Top 100 venture capitalist in the world. We want these videos to be about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people. Our startups have gone on to create more than $40 billion in market value so far, and Initialized has over $770M in assets under management. I’m doing my own one man YouTube channel with no staff or crew — we're going for raw and unfiltered, not perfect. Please like this video and subscribe to my channel if you want to see more videos like this! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opkHJLVAM4A