Ok, you just got funded. But how do you grow your startup to a billion dollar IPO? It turns out, there's a formula. Learn what it is, along with 6 tips from me on how to do that in this week's episode of Office Hours. Just raised money? Make sure you watch my last video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khY3REOst-A Founding Sales -- https://www.foundingsales.com Predictable Revenue -- http://www.amazon.com/dp/0984380213/ Follow Nik Sharma for tips on Influencers - https://twitter.com/mrsharma 0:00 -- Intro -- 0:46 Intro: How Do You Grow? 1:24 Tip 1 -- PR 1:56 How Soylent used PR 0:55 Tip 2 -- Sales and Marketing 2:35 Controversy Sells 3:06 Tip 3 -- Content Marketing 3:18 How OkCupid used Content Marketing 3:47 Tip 4 -- SEO 4:08 How Zapier's used SEO 5:02 Google Ads 6:00 Tip 5 -- Influencers 6:17 How DTC Brands use Influencers 6:34 Tip 6: Partnerships 6:42 How Microsoft & IBM used partnerships 7:10 -- Recap! -- 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 $40 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=zG_IXr6NXAg

Today, I’m excited to sit down with Harj Taggar, Group Partner at Y Combinator and an old friend that gave me my first job as designer-in-residence with him at YC. We talk about Y Combinator, Startups, and his $500 million mistake saying no to Facebook. Watch my $200M mistake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtnG0ELjvcM Harj Taggar on Twitter: https://twitter.com/harjtaggar?lang=en 00:00 Harj's $500M mistake 4:34 What founders can learn from 9-digit mistakes 5:49 How to tell the difference between a Theranos and a Facebook 8:21 How Harj became a great investor 9:58 Startup quality is up a lot 13:47 How open web form changed how startups are funded 16:12 First time founders need a community to win 19:21 One year of working with a YC batch = a lifetime in VC 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 $200 billion in market value so far, and Initialized has over $3.2B in assets under management. Please like this video and subscribe to my channel if you want to see more videos like this! Follow me on Twitter and Instagram so you'll never miss my videos and ideas— https://instagram.com/garrytan​ https://twitter.com/garrytan ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WJjSvI8_E0

Hideo Kojima created a true masterpiece. Find out what practices helped this amazing game come together. ? A mission to cure loneliness in society ♟ Resolute decisionmaking, not just doing the popular thing ? Action: knowing what to delegate, outsource, and do yourself ? Showmanship that sets the tone These things taken together allow teams to create something that has never existed before. Death Stranding is no exception. Here's the full transcript if you prefer to read: https://blog.garrytan.com/the-4-habits-of-auteurs-that-made-hideo-kojimas-video-game-masterpiece-death-stranding 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=0a3eM7lcVTI

Check out my portfolio company -- https://www.berbix.com -- for the fastest, most accurate way to integrate identity checks on your app or site. I have news for you. Google is not a tech company anymore. It's a tech holding company with $135B in cash, and no ideas. In this video, I'm going to explain why this is, and how we are actually living in the most growth-mindset era in history. Why the Waze CEO left Google: https://paygo.ghost.io/why-did-i-leave-google-or-why-did-i-stay-so-long 0:00 Intro 1:33 How Google Lost Their Touch 4:17 How to prevent fraud with Berbix 6:05 Google vs Amazon (Amazon does it better) 8:53 Zero Ideas = Zero Investment 12:25 Outro 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 $1B in assets under management. Please like this video and subscribe to my channel if you want to see more videos like this! Follow me on Twitter and Instagram so you'll never miss my videos and ideas— https://instagram.com/garrytan​ https://twitter.com/garrytan​ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fq15k9QPv8