Wildfires are a bigger problem than ever. We could avert billions of dollars in damage, but more importantly: save lives, homes and avert tragedy. We’re sitting down with Pano founder and CEO Sonia Kastner to find out how this works.
1:05 What is Pano? 4:12 The Problem of Wildfires 6:18 Technology can solve wildfires 9:42 Get involved! 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, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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Real estate is the trillion dollar industry that is lying in plain sight. Last year the space had 15 IPOs, and over $32 billion invested. Today we’re talking with Brendan Wallace, one of the founders of one of the largest real estate venture firms in the world. He's going to take us through what the future of this incredible industry looks like.
https://www.fifthwall.com
https://twitter.com/fifthwallvc
https://www.youtube.com/c/FifthWall/videos
00:00 The future of real estate
01:34 Home buying is broken
02:38 Opendoor marketplace
03:17 Fifth Wall Investments
04:20 Real estate tech’s potential
06:52 Follow Fifth Wall!
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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.
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Where we live and work spews out 13% of greenhouse gases in the U.S., but there is a solution. Runwise is transforming how buildings operate by building a wireless sensor network and software that can save landlords money, make cities more affordable, and most importantly, make the planet a cleaner place for all of us to live. Today, we’re diving into it.
https://www.runwise.com
https://twitter.com/leemhoffman
Work for runwise: https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/runwise/jobs
00:00 Solving climate change through real estate (Potential, depending on other titles)
01:39 Meet Lee Hoffman, Runwise Co-Founder & CEO (OR: Updating ancient building tech)
02:36 Why Runwise & why now?
03:53 The origin of Runwise
04:54 Runwise’s vision (OR: The vision of Runwise)
05:55 Outcomes as a service
06:35 Runwise is hiring!
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Today we are sitting down with Ryan Petersen, CEO of Flexport. Founded in 2013, Flexport combines powerful technology with physical transportation infrastructure to modernize freight forwarding. Today, nearly 10,000 companies ranging from emerging brands to Fortune 500s use Flexport to move nearly $19 Billion dollars worth of merchandise across 112 countries. Join us as we talk about what got him here, and the company Ryan built from just an idea, to an $8 Billion Startup.
Work at Flexport: https://www.flexport.com/careers/jobs/
00:00 Introduction
01:12 Meet Ryan Petersen
03:01 Ryan’s Startup Journey
09:07 Flexport’s Value Proposition
14:39 Flexport’s Goals & Initiatives
18:45 Flexport Capital
22:52 How Software is Flexport’s leg-up
25:19 Autonomy through Leadership
33:15 Flexport’s Expanding Vision
37:20 "Knowing How to Know"
41:09 Building a Talent Engine
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.
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Parker Conrad is a three-time entrepreneur. He's currently the CEO of Rippling, a unified system and single platform for businesses to manage all of their HR & IT — payroll, benefits, computers, apps, and more — in one unified workforce platform. Today, we're sitting down with Parker to talk about growing his startup, the importance of an employee graph, and how customer support can define a business.
https://www.rippling.com/
https://twitter.com/parkerconrad
00:00 Why we're here today
01:24 Meet Parker Conrad, Rippling CEO
04:43 Rippling's focus on employee data
08:34 The idea of a compound startup
12:03 New wave of business systems
15:20 Creating an employee graph
19:00 Rippling: a team of teams
22:22 Rippling’s reporting capabilities
24:34 A different way to support customers
31:00 Routing through machine learning
33:11 How to use the extremes of your data
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Today I sat down with Amy Jo Kim, creator of @Game Thinking TV and early designer of world class products including Rock Band, The Sims, Ultima Online, eBay and Netflix. We talk about her journey into tech, game dev, and how founders have a lot to learn from game thinking.
Along the way, we learn a number of secrets on how to get to product market fit 10x faster.
00:00 Intro
01:06 Meet Amy Jo Kim
01:47 Engineer, then designer, then product
02:48 Finding her tribe
04:30 Game Thinking: PMF 10X faster
06:22 Core loops driving retention
08:31 Lessons from Ultima Online
11:48 Test with core super fans first
13:38 Pick your users
15:26 Slack's customer journey
19:04 Storyboarding skips you ahead
23:38 The most important story: Your user's
26:51 Overcoming founder ego
30:15 What founders can learn from game design
32:03 Amy Jo Kim's lessons for those starting out
37:20 Learning more about Game Thinking
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I’m Garry Tan, venture capitalist and cofounder 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. I’m doing my own one man YouTube channel with no staff or crew — we're going for raw and unfiltered, not perfect.
For 2020 I’m donating all proceeds from my YouTube channel (Ads + affiliate links) to Code2040 to fight for racial equality in tech. Join me in donating at https://code2040.org
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Drip Capital started as two people with an idea in 2015. Today, they have over 138 employees, raised more than $45M, and will do over $1 billion in trade volume since inception this year. They have over 2,000 importers and exporters on the platform and have built an enduring fintech startup. They're on track to be as impactful as the World Bank in terms of helping businesses worldwide get access to credit.
They had to search the space to find one that could grow quickly with high LTV and low CAC. It was really impressive to see as an investor, and I'm so glad we could sit down with cofounder Neil Kothari today.
00:00 Intro
00:38 Meet Neil Kothari
02:50 Starting the founder journey
03:56 First iteration: Lending in the US
05:52 Pivot to global trade finance, finding product market fit
07:18 More data = better lending (key insight)
09:37 Why does net 30 exist when interest rates are zero?
11:48 Incumbent banks aren't doing their job, which lets Drip create a new cross-border trade model
13:46 Why is lending hard?
14:35 What they learned in India
18:00 Do unscalable things, then scale them
21:10 Beware advice
23:31 How to invest, or work at Drip
Hi, I’m Garry Tan, venture capitalist and cofounder 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. I’m doing my own one man YouTube channel with no staff or crew — we're going for raw and unfiltered, not perfect.
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We all want to build something that catches lightning in a bottle, but can you hold on to it long enough to make it into THE company in your space?
0:00 The 2 key milestones
1:20 Catching lightning in a bottle
3:20 Keeping the lightning
4:57 What founders can learn from this
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I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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Today I'm sitting down with Founder and CEO of Eclipse Foods, Aylon Steinhart, to discuss how Eclipse is creating plant-based dairy products that are transforming the food system for a better world. They make dairy-free products that are indistinguishable from their animal counterparts in taste and texture, and are already in all Whole Foods in Northern California.
To try their delicious, dairy-free ice cream online send itor find a location near you, visit https://www.eclipsefoods.com
00:00 Eclipse Foods
01:05 Eclipse’s micelle formation process
02:03: The future of plant based food
08:08 Growth as a food brand
11:08 Eclipse’s climate impact
13:58 The power of Cold Calling
17:48 Looking Ahead
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.
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Whether you’re a pilot flying a plane or a CEO running a company, it’s clear that there are ways you can minimize the chances of crashing into the ground.
Why do they happen? What do the copilots say? It all comes back to the life or death 10 second decisions. We're lucky as managers we get more than 10 seconds, but there are so many things we should get right to maximize our chance of avoiding total catastrophe.
* Dont panic - things will go wrong! Know they will.
* Identify errors: we are going to crash.
* Communicate the right way: be understood or be actionable
* Minimize pulling rank
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.
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