Garry Tan 陈嘉兴 — e/acc

The healthiest thing about the current startup environment is less magical thinking: in boom times you had startups buying topline revenue by selling $20 bills for $10. Founders...

Garry Tan 陈嘉兴 — e/acc

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The difference between an overhyped startup failure and a valuable real business that makes it the long haul is sometimes as simple as: Do the founders themselves believe in what...

Garry Tan 陈嘉兴 — e/acc

@garrytan

People know me to be nice, but one of the biggest things I had to learn is to properly tune my response to things when knives came out The key: be authoritative, not authoritarian...

Garry Tan 陈嘉兴 — e/acc

@garrytan

Beware focusing on competition over customers. It’s surprisingly common to spend all your time fighting the other players in your market and then realizing years later the market...

Garry Tan 陈嘉兴 — e/acc

@garrytan