Considering this was back in 2004, I actually don’t blame you one bit. It’s a great point you made about concern over whether Google was even going to make money (considering it started as just a research paper in the ivory tower of academia). Back then, you still had to build and manage your own server farm (early FB days). People have it SO much easier these days with cloud computing. Hindsight is 20/20 and 10 years in the tech space can feel like 100 years in “normal” time lol. Who can predict 100 years from now? PS. So glad to find your channel. Please share more as quality info in the VC/startup space is rare on YT and a real treat to learn. Notifications on!
Thank you for sharing your story, Garry. Forgive my hasty interruption, but Odi is a snake oil salesman. He preys on the weak, poor, and vulnerable by selling them outrageous ($2000+) courses. There's an amazing YT creator that is tackling the disturbing problems in the "Internet Guru" space. Odi is featured in this video: ruclips.net/video/gVE2jsaavnA/видео.html. And here's a link to the channel: ruclips.net/channel/UCFQMnBA3CS502aghlcr0_aw.
The Dream Chaser: If You Don't Build Your Dream, Someone Will Hire You to Help Build Theirs Book by Tony Gaskins It's something everyone should be thinking about. Great idea!
Hi Gary. We went to high school together. I am a software product manager and this is resonating with me. Thanks for the insight and sharing your story. It can be scary to walk away from a big tech company and go in a new direction that may or may not work out. Stories like the one you’re sharing can help inspire and give confidence to someone in a similar position to your 72k example.
Gary, thanks again for another great video. After 15 years, I exited my career job to pursue entrepreneurship (startup). It's tough, but I'm not giving up. Your videos are among the few voices that keep me focus and trot forward. If I ever get to meet you, I'd like show you my mvps and vision. Who knows, you might like it, especially now, it helps limit workers and customers exposure to Covid-19.
This video got me into startups. Freshman year of college I was just introduced to the computer science major and was looking for career advice when youtube algorithm recommended this video. Now 3 years later I gave up my return offer from Microsoft and moved out to SF to build a startup with my friends, thank you Garry for this video.
Just graduated. I got a job at a big e-commerce company for 7 months and using that money to fund my app (MVP prototype) in a 32+ billion market estimated to be 80 billion in 2025 (info from different sources). Can’t wait! I’m sincerely thankful for you to share your knowledge.
Thank you for sharing your mistake. Most would feel too ashamed to even discuss it within close circles. Your story reminded me of Tim Cook's experience when joining Apple. He was working at Compaq, good position, good pay, but still left a plush job at one of the world's largest computer makers to join Apple, which was at the time on the verge of bankruptcy. He simply joined because he saw a visionary leader in Steve Jobs and decided to "go west". Thanks for sharing your story! I breathed a sigh of relief when you mentioned that you eventually ended up joining Palantir as the 10th employee.
You get few opportunities in life; when you do, recognize them as such and act swiftly and decisively. Thanks for the life lesson, what a crushing lesson indeed
Great story, Garry! Thanks for sharing. After co-founding two startups that have failed, I'm now working on launching my third startup. Cheers to trying to get it right. 🍻
love the aesthetics! Very well crafted. it is videos like this that encourages people to be more start-up minded. On the other hand it will be very interesting if we can somehow get the stats on the conversation rate over say a year about how many % of people who watched the video switched to be more start-up centric e.g consuming more start-up related news, videos, etc
I had chances to hold bitcoin when it was less than 10 dollars and back then many people like me had more than 10000 bitcoins, but it is fate that we didn't hold. so always look forward for more opportunities, for me, I bought eth when it was 4 dollars. so guess that was meant for me.
Garry Tan Yeah I know, I was surprised that you actually have a RUclips channel. I am your fan and have been following you on angelist for years. You inspired me to switch my career from an entrepreneur to angel investor. Wish you all the best and keep safe man
As an entrepreneur myself I agree with a lot of the points. But just to note that the product you build at big companies is worth a lot not necessarily because of the product itself but usually because of the current scale of the company distributing it.
Yeah you're right, instant scale is a big deal. But it's also a reason why people who work at big companies always underestimate how hard it is to get lots of users.
After graduating from college 3 years ago I immediately became soft. I've spent so much time worrying about what mistakes id make that I never took any chances at all. I'm done with that. Thank you so much for your advice.
Great to hear this from an inspirational, thoughtful leader such as yourself. I am about to graduate college but I have also started an edtech startup marketplace.
Congrats on taking the plunge. The key thing is to keep making the product better and always ask what your customers want, and just deliver it. A tight loop on that will produce fruit.
Garry Tan what does initialized look for in a startup and at what stages do you guys cut the check. Agree we have 400 customers signed up for our funnel site as our site is being built.
I have started my own startup - I need to share this video with my friends. In Ukraine, there is a strong culture of working in a big company, not working in the startup - people don't believe that this equity could be valuable - no good examples.
If you don't work on your dreams, someone will put you to work on theirs. --> That's true. But instead, why not use people who work on their dreams. Palantir IPOed recently. Buy the stock if you still believe in the company.
Garry Tan definitely :) just discovered your channel, subscribed and will be sure to stay tuned! I’m based in Australia not the US (where startups / VC is way smaller) so it’s great to hear your perspective on it all!
Man, you are awesome, I am 30 and really thinking about changing my career. I am tired of building something that I don't care about. I want to make something, as you said in another video, that you help billions of people. And see my work changing lives. I will move to another country surround myself with the best and make it happen.
Thanks for sharing your experience Garry. This is so important, especially for young people who dream of working in a big companies and who becomes demotivated when he does not reach this goal.
Love this channel! I learned so much and it gave me a lot of perspective, I really appreciate it! Charity with your most valuable asset, knowledge of the tech industry!
I recently landed a full-time PM offer from Microsoft at 23. I feel attacked. 😂 Thanks for sharing your story, Garry! Your content is gold. Huge fan from Canada.
As a technical founder, I’ve learned so much from you, from the first time I attended your class at YC Startup School. Hope I can share your videos with other founders here in Nigeria? Thanks a lot. You’re a great guy!
You turned out that check?! Jesus! Lol. You were out of your mind I would have taken that in a heart beat!!! Glad it all worked out. Great content man keep it up
What's most important about a startup, is the ability to have more diverse, approaches and creativity enter a market without being honed by established thinking. For breakthroughs to occur at a more rapid pace, these incubators are a necessity. Eventually all new ideas get commodities by larger corporates, but they never would have evolved any other way.
John Peterson yes Paul Graham talks about how you must find new markets through things that sometimes look like toys. Airbnb for instance started as Airbedandbreakfast.com and they required both breakfast and an air bed.
My head exploded when you dropped the numbers on profit per employee for the Tech Giants. Absolutely stunning. Slowly, many folks now realize that equity is what is important versus a great pay package.
Well, it's all tech privilege to be honest. I feel lucky as hell to have interest in computers. But now it's also important to figure out how to make new ventures and pay it forward.
In hind sight, everyone can be a millionaire. That is if you invested couple of thousand dollars in Amazon, Google back in 2004 you would have been a millionaire by now. Although you did make some valid points. Thank you for this informational video.
I don't know if I am making the same mistake. I am working for a big IT company in my country and they are paying me very less because I am an old employee (ex: my experience and same level IT employee is getting 24 then I am making 10) I used to get job offers before with better pay but I refused because I was more interested in doing "Good work" rather than work for money (HUGE MISTAKE) When I got married and have house, those mistakes pinch now. I should have choose the right way, there is no value for "Hard work" in big IT companies. You work or you don't, both have same value for them. Now, I have started doing stock market and it seems that I can make good money in stock market but I am afraid to quit the job and do it full time. Because 3-4 consecutive mistake in stock market will drain my bank account. So, I can't take that risk now. I can trade a bit but working and trading at the same time doesn't work pretty well. I can be a millionaire or may be not, via stock market but I have got one life and I think I should try it once. At the same time, I am afraid to take the decision.
The important thing is to figure out what other people want, and uniquely find ways to create that. It might involve you writing the code yourself. It might involve managing people. There are lots of ways to contribute value, whether it is through your current job, or going through a coding bootcamp on the side to learn new skills.
@@GarryTan I live in a 3rd world country. Worked 9 years for an American company and for my skills and social background, I had the best job I could aspire to. People were shocked when I quit. I have to follow my dreams otherwise I feel dead. It's been a couple of really hard years since then, but I'm on my way and most important, I feel I'm holding the wheel rather than going on the passenger seat. If I didn't believe that my ideas and goals weren't good not only for me, but for my surroundings I wouldn't risk anything. I truly think I'll make a positive change. Really great video. Thank you.
ok, you didn't have 200,000,000 and lost them, you never had them, we can all look back and say, if I would have done X differently today I would have x.
Im sorry to say this but i hope not a lot of people watch this, so some people who watched it doesnt have a lot competitors. This is such an eye opening video and it really usefull
You are not the only one. I am sure that has happened to hundreds of people, maybe even thousands...something also happened to me years ago, turning down a call, related to barracuda software or some other stuff on multiple occasions, later the companies were sold off for like a couple million etc...My old boss will never let me forget it. 'You could be retired now!"
Thank u for this Gary. Now I can use this video as a practical reference to talk my friends who I wish to make my cofounders out of this rat race😅😁. Already shared with all my peers😉 Tnx again
great video, love the approach you took to share the valuable experience!!! There are great insight and after losing a million USD, I have the maturity to understand what you are conveying. Thank you so much and keep up the amazing sharing.
Thanks for sharing your story and insights. But the truth is that most of us need and will go trough some kind of low value job/activity to learn skills that are worth millions (like discipline and relating to people). The "secret" is to know when to move to your own project (which is very likely to go wrong, but that is also part of the "script" to success). In fact, there's no rule. It's about making things happen, being pro-active and brave.
Your comments on the necessity of being a founder or early employee to later generate wealth echo lessons from Naval Ravikant. Would be great to learn your perspective on tech employers assuming ownership of employees' side projects, is this something you have encountered or complied with? I anticipated this being noted as a Downside. Thanks.
I am against companies taking the IP of their employee’s side projects. In California as long as an employee works on their own time and their own equipment then their creation is theirs. I am a fan of that.
I turned down Pied Piper :(
I turned down Re-Vine for Not-Vine :(
I invested in Sliceline and now my net worth is 15 pizzas
@@TrenBlack and how is pied piper?
@@TrenBlack Woah, you bros with Joma it seems...haha. You two doing well #BroMePatchup
Time heals, or was it staged ;)
@@TrenBlack I heard you make and buy your own pizza
Considering this was back in 2004, I actually don’t blame you one bit. It’s a great point you made about concern over whether Google was even going to make money (considering it started as just a research paper in the ivory tower of academia). Back then, you still had to build and manage your own server farm (early FB days). People have it SO much easier these days with cloud computing. Hindsight is 20/20 and 10 years in the tech space can feel like 100 years in “normal” time lol. Who can predict 100 years from now?
PS. So glad to find your channel. Please share more as quality info in the VC/startup space is rare on YT and a real treat to learn. Notifications on!
Thanks for the thoughtful note. Hope we can get some real idea exchange going here.
Garry Tan Onwards and upwards! PS. Merry Christmas
Thank you for sharing your story, Garry. Forgive my hasty interruption, but Odi is a snake oil salesman. He preys on the weak, poor, and vulnerable by selling them outrageous ($2000+) courses. There's an amazing YT creator that is tackling the disturbing problems in the "Internet Guru" space. Odi is featured in this video: ruclips.net/video/gVE2jsaavnA/видео.html. And here's a link to the channel: ruclips.net/channel/UCFQMnBA3CS502aghlcr0_aw.
@@GarryTan Oof you're dealing with a Contrepreneur right there.
Mr Roland definitely has a legion of bots.
“If you don’t work on your dreams, someone will put you to work on theirs.”
What a quote! And so true. 03:25
Thanks for watching DJ Jack!
The Dream Chaser: If You Don't Build Your Dream, Someone Will Hire You to Help Build Theirs
Book by Tony Gaskins
It's something everyone should be thinking about. Great idea!
Jari Laakso Purchased!
Hi Gary. We went to high school together. I am a software product manager and this is resonating with me. Thanks for the insight and sharing your story. It can be scary to walk away from a big tech company and go in a new direction that may or may not work out. Stories like the one you’re sharing can help inspire and give confidence to someone in a similar position to your 72k example.
Thanks for the note Dimas, and great to be back in touch!
@@GarryTan can @Dimas Guevara come and work for/with you on a project together?
LOL this is so relatable. "I think I'm going to get L60 next year" literally me. Thanks for the great content.
Gary, thanks again for another great video. After 15 years, I exited my career job to pursue entrepreneurship (startup). It's tough, but I'm not giving up. Your videos are among the few voices that keep me focus and trot forward. If I ever get to meet you, I'd like show you my mvps and vision. Who knows, you might like it, especially now, it helps limit workers and customers exposure to Covid-19.
Oh you can DM me on Instagram.
Your channel should have millions of subscribers. The value at which you provide information is absolutely incredible. Thank you so much!!!
Wow, thank you!
This video got me into startups. Freshman year of college I was just introduced to the computer science major and was looking for career advice when youtube algorithm recommended this video. Now 3 years later I gave up my return offer from Microsoft and moved out to SF to build a startup with my friends, thank you Garry for this video.
Lessons learned: start something new, and don't be afraid of not being "status-quo"
Left Intel almost two years ago, best thing I could have ever done.
Congrats on new pastures!
Just graduated. I got a job at a big e-commerce company for 7 months and using that money to fund my app (MVP prototype) in a 32+ billion market estimated to be 80 billion in 2025 (info from different sources). Can’t wait! I’m sincerely thankful for you to share your knowledge.
The big thing is to get initial users and try to get growth!
Thank you for sharing your mistake. Most would feel too ashamed to even discuss it within close circles. Your story reminded me of Tim Cook's experience when joining Apple. He was working at Compaq, good position, good pay, but still left a plush job at one of the world's largest computer makers to join Apple, which was at the time on the verge of bankruptcy. He simply joined because he saw a visionary leader in Steve Jobs and decided to "go west".
Thanks for sharing your story! I breathed a sigh of relief when you mentioned that you eventually ended up joining Palantir as the 10th employee.
There are many paths!
You get few opportunities in life; when you do, recognize them as such and act swiftly and decisively. Thanks for the life lesson, what a crushing lesson indeed
It’s ok, it all works out if you are skilled and can make things
Great story, Garry! Thanks for sharing. After co-founding two startups that have failed, I'm now working on launching my third startup. Cheers to trying to get it right. 🍻
Good luck on this one Arnold!
Thanks, Garry! I'll take all the luck I can get.
love the aesthetics! Very well crafted. it is videos like this that encourages people to be more start-up minded. On the other hand it will be very interesting if we can somehow get the stats on the conversation rate over say a year about how many % of people who watched the video switched to be more start-up centric e.g consuming more start-up related news, videos, etc
One of the most HONEST videos on any platform
Dude these videos are legendary. I’m watching your stuff beyond YC app related things. Hope we can talk with you when the time is right!
I had chances to hold bitcoin when it was less than 10 dollars and back then many people like me had more than 10000 bitcoins, but it is fate that we didn't hold. so always look forward for more opportunities, for me, I bought eth when it was 4 dollars. so guess that was meant for me.
I ended up buying bitcoin and Ethereum and being first investor in Coinbase. So you win some and you lose some!
Garry Tan Yeah I know, I was surprised that you actually have a RUclips channel. I am your fan and have been following you on angelist for years. You inspired me to switch my career from an entrepreneur to angel investor. Wish you all the best and keep safe man
One of the best decision I have ever made in life was Investing in bitcoins. I wish I had known this earlier.
Crypto trading is a very lucrative way of making money Online at the moment.
Wow. I've been looking at trading for a while, is crypto the way to go?
Love that you are doing this, thanks for paying it forward.
As an entrepreneur myself I agree with a lot of the points. But just to note that the product you build at big companies is worth a lot not necessarily because of the product itself but usually because of the current scale of the company distributing it.
Yeah you're right, instant scale is a big deal. But it's also a reason why people who work at big companies always underestimate how hard it is to get lots of users.
This is gold! Getting all this great content for free it makes me feel like I'm stealing. Thank you!
Just trying to help with what I messed up!
@@GarryTan but you still a billionaire Garry
After graduating from college 3 years ago I immediately became soft. I've spent so much time worrying about what mistakes id make that I never took any chances at all. I'm done with that. Thank you so much for your advice.
Thank you, I am just 19 years old and your advice will help me to sustain my entrepreneurial mindset. Love from India
That's awesome. It will be very useful later.
What a legend Peter Thiel is - to write that check takes big balls
I always really respected this about him. It was incredible conviction about the startup.
Balls of steels!
Great to hear this from an inspirational, thoughtful leader such as yourself. I am about to graduate college but I have also started an edtech startup marketplace.
Congrats on taking the plunge. The key thing is to keep making the product better and always ask what your customers want, and just deliver it. A tight loop on that will produce fruit.
Garry Tan what does initialized look for in a startup and at what stages do you guys cut the check. Agree we have 400 customers signed up for our funnel site as our site is being built.
I have started my own startup - I need to share this video with my friends. In Ukraine, there is a strong culture of working in a big company, not working in the startup - people don't believe that this equity could be valuable - no good examples.
It’s tricky, because most startups fail. I guess the trick is to not be “most startups.”
That's actually good advice Garry
No better school than the real world. Real life lessons make the best version of our future self.
This was so insightful to watch.
Great content Garry.
You dropping so much gems.
Thank you.
If you don't work on your dreams, someone will put you to work on theirs.
--> That's true. But instead, why not use people who work on their dreams. Palantir IPOed recently. Buy the stock if you still believe in the company.
It's not enough to believe. You must believe and be right. :-)
Awesome vid man, I’m around 23 and pursuing finance, but it’s really interesting to hear about the startup space and ur journey for sure
Thanks Phil! There are a lot of good problems to solve out there.
Garry Tan definitely :) just discovered your channel, subscribed and will be sure to stay tuned! I’m based in Australia not the US (where startups / VC is way smaller) so it’s great to hear your perspective on it all!
Man, you are awesome, I am 30 and really thinking about changing my career. I am tired of building something that I don't care about.
I want to make something, as you said in another video, that you help billions of people. And see my work changing lives.
I will move to another country surround myself with the best and make it happen.
Morale of the story? Every decision seems obvious in restrospect.
Thanks for sharing your experience Garry.
This is so important, especially for young people who dream of working in a big companies and who becomes demotivated when he does not reach this goal.
People should absolutely work at the best company they can get a job at, big co or not.
Valuable lesson learned. Thanks for sharing Garry.
Thanks Gary, just discovered this channel. Looking forward to more insightful content.
Thanks and welcome
Thank you for sharing this Gary! Awesome content so far!
You got like an instant sub from my end. Cheers Mate. Those were some solid advices right there.
Thanks for the sub!
Love this channel! I learned so much and it gave me a lot of perspective, I really appreciate it! Charity with your most valuable asset, knowledge of the tech industry!
So glad this was useful and helpful.
"Don't make my mistakes, make all new mistakes" Well damn. That was powerful.
I recently landed a full-time PM offer from Microsoft at 23. I feel attacked. 😂 Thanks for sharing your story, Garry! Your content is gold. Huge fan from Canada.
Haha just don’t stay forever and you’re good
This is such an incredible story! You were always destined to have fantastic opportunities, Garry!
Thanks Jay!
As a technical founder, I’ve learned so much from you, from the first time I attended your class at YC Startup School.
Hope I can share your videos with other founders here in Nigeria?
Thanks a lot. You’re a great guy!
I'm a big fan of your channel! Thanks so much for sharing all your lessons. So highly appreciated.
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing Gary!! Very insightful
Man! Incredible video! You perfectly described the situation with such simple video. Thanks a lot!
Glad you liked it!
Hi from the Philippines here love your videos I'm learning a lot. Thanks for Sharing you're one of my inspirations.
You turned out that check?! Jesus! Lol. You were out of your mind I would have taken that in a heart beat!!! Glad it all worked out. Great content man keep it up
Haha, well, when you're young, you don't know much sometimes.
Very valuable lesson. and nicely edited. Thanks and subbed.
Thanks for the sub!
Thanks for the clarity
You know, Garry, I really loved the lessons you've highlighted, but also it's never too late to start a something new, so congrats still!
Great attitude!
“Don’t make my mistake, make all new mistake?” . I subscribed
Haha thanks for watching
What's most important about a startup, is the ability to have more diverse, approaches and creativity enter a market without being honed by established thinking. For breakthroughs to occur at a more rapid pace, these incubators are a necessity. Eventually all new ideas get commodities by larger corporates, but they never would have evolved any other way.
John Peterson yes Paul Graham talks about how you must find new markets through things that sometimes look like toys. Airbnb for instance started as Airbedandbreakfast.com and they required both breakfast and an air bed.
The problem is I have to first get a chance to have lunch with Peter Thiel.....
Thanks, very inspirational, you have a good energy!
How am I only hearing about this now!? You’re WAY TOO humble
I said similarly crazy shitake to Peter. He listened.
RUclips added another layer to the neural net in the recommendation engine. Also just stumbling upon this now.
My head exploded when you dropped the numbers on profit per employee for the Tech Giants. Absolutely stunning. Slowly, many folks now realize that equity is what is important versus a great pay package.
Well, it's all tech privilege to be honest. I feel lucky as hell to have interest in computers. But now it's also important to figure out how to make new ventures and pay it forward.
Thanks bro.
This really helped me.
Imma go subscribe now.
Hoping for great new content from you..
Thanks for the sub!
Very valuable tips! Thank you for sharing your experiences.
Nice video bud. I appreciate the honesty.
Thanks Jason!
Thanks for sharing! 1:40 was hilarious
Really loving this Garry. I certainly don’t expect a sub back. Just learned so much lying on my bed in Africa.
Guess we motherland babies are here.
Mwaniki Mwaniki For the motherland brother ✊🏾
In hind sight, everyone can be a millionaire. That is if you invested couple of thousand dollars in Amazon, Google back in 2004 you would have been a millionaire by now. Although you did make some valid points. Thank you for this informational video.
Well you can't go back in time but you can build the future
I've just stumbled upon your channel, your content is great! Thank you Garry!
This is powerful, just validated my recent decision 👌🏿👏🏿🙏🏿👍🏿 thank you!
Thanks Gary for the lessons.
Excellent video. Shared it as a Post to my Chinese subscribers.
Thanks for that!
Thanks for sharing, Garry, I believe this single video has saved Billions of dollars till now! 🚀
It’s funny how I just started reading Zero To One a couple of days ago and you just mentioned Peter Thiel
great advice Garry Tan, Thank you !
All of the learnings I had by working for startup.
Thank you for sharing this....it was great but there's a lot of life choices that are really unquantifiable...just luck sometimes.
Absolutely!
Great work just Subscribed I bet if you upload constantly you will be a big RUclipsr
Trying to upload weekly
Nobody has bigger regrets than Ronald Wayne. His $800 in Apple would’ve been worth $100B in today’s valuation. Great advice by the way 👍
Gary you earned a new subscriber. Love your channel. Yoi dropping gems
I thank you for this video bro. You know its like you were talking to me and telling me the mistakes i have done to this point.
Thanks
Thank you Said!
Your channel is a Gem !!
I don't know if I am making the same mistake.
I am working for a big IT company in my country and they are paying me very less because I am an old employee (ex: my experience and same level IT employee is getting 24 then I am making 10)
I used to get job offers before with better pay but I refused because I was more interested in doing "Good work" rather than work for money (HUGE MISTAKE)
When I got married and have house, those mistakes pinch now. I should have choose the right way, there is no value for "Hard work" in big IT companies. You work or you don't, both have same value for them.
Now, I have started doing stock market and it seems that I can make good money in stock market but I am afraid to quit the job and do it full time. Because 3-4 consecutive mistake in stock market will drain my bank account. So, I can't take that risk now.
I can trade a bit but working and trading at the same time doesn't work pretty well. I can be a millionaire or may be not, via stock market but I have got one life and I think I should try it once. At the same time, I am afraid to take the decision.
The important thing is to figure out what other people want, and uniquely find ways to create that. It might involve you writing the code yourself. It might involve managing people. There are lots of ways to contribute value, whether it is through your current job, or going through a coding bootcamp on the side to learn new skills.
I'm not into IT, but this video was a huge eye opener, there are some concepts here that I never considered. Radical shift in perspective.
It's quite hard to start a company or create a new product or service, but it is a very direct way to create new value in the world.
@@GarryTan I live in a 3rd world country. Worked 9 years for an American company and for my skills and social background, I had the best job I could aspire to. People were shocked when I quit.
I have to follow my dreams otherwise I feel dead. It's been a couple of really hard years since then, but I'm on my way and most important, I feel I'm holding the wheel rather than going on the passenger seat.
If I didn't believe that my ideas and goals weren't good not only for me, but for my surroundings I wouldn't risk anything. I truly think I'll make a positive change.
Really great video. Thank you.
@@armentumhominum9931 a change of location might help
ok, you didn't have 200,000,000 and lost them, you never had them, we can all look back and say, if I would have done X differently today I would have x.
Some other dude made those $200m. Probably should go and find Palantir employee #10 and interview him
Im sorry to say this but i hope not a lot of people watch this, so some people who watched it doesnt have a lot competitors. This is such an eye opening video and it really usefull
very honest and important lesson for us
thanks
Thanks for making this video!
My pleasure!
You are not the only one. I am sure that has happened to hundreds of people, maybe even thousands...something also happened to me years ago, turning down a call, related to barracuda software or some other stuff on multiple occasions, later the companies were sold off for like a couple million etc...My old boss will never let me forget it. 'You could be retired now!"
Great story, and happy it turned out good for you.
It all works out
Thank u for this Gary. Now I can use this video as a practical reference to talk my friends who I wish to make my cofounders out of this rat race😅😁. Already shared with all my peers😉 Tnx again
Good insights and advice Garry., that we appreciate.
Thanks for watching!
After all of the VCs that turned me down. I cant wait to one day see them make a video like this about my company. That is the ultimate achievement
great video, love the approach you took to share the valuable experience!!! There are great insight and after losing a million USD, I have the maturity to understand what you are conveying. Thank you so much and keep up the amazing sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
Good advice bro. You seem like a genuine guy
Thanks, just another human on the planet over here
Thanks for sharing your story and insights. But the truth is that most of us need and will go trough some kind of low value job/activity to learn skills that are worth millions (like discipline and relating to people). The "secret" is to know when to move to your own project (which is very likely to go wrong, but that is also part of the "script" to success). In fact, there's no rule. It's about making things happen, being pro-active and brave.
Very true! None of this happens instantly. By the time this happened to me, I had been building web apps for top brands for about 6 years of my life.
Your comments on the necessity of being a founder or early employee to later generate wealth echo lessons from Naval Ravikant. Would be great to learn your perspective on tech employers assuming ownership of employees' side projects, is this something you have encountered or complied with? I anticipated this being noted as a Downside. Thanks.
I am against companies taking the IP of their employee’s side projects. In California as long as an employee works on their own time and their own equipment then their creation is theirs. I am a fan of that.
Fast forward late 2022: Garry, you made the right decision!!!
For every point discussed I felt like he is sharing my thoughts/experience.
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Awesome, thank you!
Masayoshi Son fumbled billions and bounced back, you will too(if you haven't already). Thanks for sharing!
Gary I really like your humble attitude money or not, best to you sir
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