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12 Apr, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Wow the YouTube comment scammers are working hardcore tonight on my YouTube channel. I assure you, do not trust Mariana Amber just as you should not trust YouTube comments for financial advice. Good god.
Do not trust Brian Allen. This person is a scam artist.

It’s whack a mole too. Seems like they are making hundreds of accounts like this.

This is fixable with a few if statements.
This one is creative, they created a brand new avatar image for me. 🤔
This is truly the laziest part of the YouTube Studio app and most embarrassing. Right, hide future comments. Don’t give me a way to mass delete hundreds of the spam comments they’ve already posted.
Look at this astonishingly elaborate scam thread with multiple accounts. Ends with “thanks for the credible information.”

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17 Dec 20
In 2013 I wrote to potential Coinbase Series A investors: "All the Bitcoins in the world today are worth about $300M—up 400% in the last year. With Coinbase at the forefront, I think this is one of the most disruptive opportunities I’ve ever seen." 🚀

blog.initialized.com/2020/12/spotti…
This is what Coinbase's early product market fit looked like:
💰 Doing 15% of all transactions on the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange at the time, Mt Gox
♽ Hitting working capital constraints set by their bank daily
🏆 The only fiat-to-crypto onramp w/ a FDIC-insured US bank
Things I got right: fiat to crypto onramp was the key moat, and software eating money is a big deal

Things I got wrong: I underestimated store of value— I was pretty sure medium of exchange was going to be why crypto would expand
Read 5 tweets
20 Jan 20
Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding is a true masterpiece. Here are the 4 habits of auteurs that help create it—

🛡 MISSION greater than yourself
♟ DECISION without compromise
💥 ACTION with right delegation
🎭 SHOWMANSHIP to set the tone

New vlog—
Video games are crazy violent. But Death Stranding shows it doesn't have to be. A gorgeous, meaningful adventure created by a masterful team.

Lots of lessons for creators in this video.
10X more work than a tweet, a blog post, or probably most podcasts.

I want these videos to be the highest signal thing you consume every week.

New posts every week! If you enjoyed this, please share.

Full transcript on my blog— blog.garrytan.com/the-4-habits-o…
Read 4 tweets
20 Jan 20
Doubled my YouTube channel subscribers to more than 5000 while also adding 3600 new Twitter followers in the last month

Building a new audience with content is slow and takes forever but I am happy with 2X monthly growth 👌

Creators have to celebrate small wins 🙏
What’s cool is that a bunch of the core metrics seem to be healthy 👌
@MrBeastYT would spend 4 hours on just the YouTube thumbnail

Interesting right? Getting someone to click is half of the war. The other half is retention!

HT @walkeriwilliams for the rec, great podcast with @reedjd_ who manages @MrBeastYT

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beh…
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31 Dec 19
When choosing a startup idea, you must be able to check either of these boxes

[ ] Truly novel (nobody else has tried)
[ ] 10X better product

The absolute best check both. 99% of startups check neither.

A good pitch is sometimes a strong story explaining how to get the 1st ☑️
One thing I am starting to realize is if you can’t get either, the founder is better off cutting burn and starting over (or shutting down)

One of the hardest convos in the life of any startup

Sometimes you just know. But sometimes your friends have to nudge you. Never easy.
Caveat: 10X better go to market can frequently beat 10X product
Read 6 tweets
23 Dec 19
My $200 million mistake

blog.garrytan.com/working-for-mi…
Working for Microsoft cost me $200M

I was 23 and I had a zero-risk opportunity to join a startup as employee #1. That startup is now worth $20 billion.

Anyone who makes great software will run into situations like this— it's a measure of how valuable software is in the world
Read 4 tweets
22 Sep 19
About 50 reviews through 300 YC applications submitted for comment.

Surprising how unaware people are of competition. Yes, you don't die by competition, but when you make something new, you should be hyper-aware of what Google might tell people to use instead of you.
2nd most common mistake: Describing what a startup does, but failing to communicate why it’s a great product/service.

New things must massively outperform incumbents just to have a chance at escaping obscurity.

Step 1 - What is it?
Step 2 - Is it great?
3rd most common mistake: Not highlighting the product, design, and what’s built

The majority of YC apps are still basically just an idea and a bunch of words. If you have a demo, wireframes, mockups, a working site, DEFINITELY link it and drive people to it.

Makes a big diff
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