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From the bottom to the top & back again. Co-founded @twitch , now working on making videos, @rye

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It’s only January and it’s already obvious DTC is going to be huge for game developers in 2024. Excited to introduce Stash. We’re building your next direct-to-player platform so you can finally own the relationships with your users. Check us out:

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Justin Kan

3 years

My first company @twitch sold for a billion dollars. My second one lost $75 million in 36 months. People love talking about success, but today I'm going to talk about failure. It's time to be honest about Atrium:

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From Robinhood employee posted to Reddit

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yeah i built @twitch it has millions of users. & gaming NFTs are way bigger.

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3 years

What if I told you that I felt like a failure even after selling Twitch for a billion dollars? This is for anyone experiencing impostor syndrome:

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@RashidaTlaib @aoc there should be a congressional hearing

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2 years

In every startup, you need: - Someone who always wants to get shit done - Someone who obsesses over numbers - Someone who is honest about shit that doesn't work - Someone who is eternally optimistic

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SEC should investigate the following: 1. Did Citadel’s hedge funds (Citadel Global Equities and Citadel Wellington) hold any short positions in stocks heavily owned by Robinhood users? And did they increase them in the past few days?

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2. Subpoena all emails and phone calls between Citadel Securities and Robinhood

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Robinhood not allowing trading of $GME and $AMC. The elites have the financial system rigged. Why would any user trust Robinhood ever again?

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Don't 'build an app'. Create a solution, then use technology to scale it.

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3. Subpoena all emails and phone calls between the Wall Street banks and Robinhood (Robinhood gives its shares to Wall Street banks to lend out to hedge fund clients to short through prime brokerage).

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10 months ago we shut down Atrium after raising $75m in venture capital. Anyone hearing that knows I made tons of mistakes along the way. Someone asked me today what my biggest lessons learned were. Here they are:

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I've raised over $150,000,000 as a founder, simply by being a good storyteller. Here's how to get VC's to throw money at you:

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3 years

Did the Wall Street banks communicate with Robinhood to stop trading GME otherwise they’d cut them off from their short borrow revenues?

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3 years

Any other brave Robinhood employees who are willing to whistleblow should come forward anonymously to reporters. I can put you in touch.

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2 years

NFTs are a better business model for games. Many gamers seem to be raging hard against game studios selling NFTs. But NFTs are also better for players. Here’s why I think blockchain games will be the predominant business model in gaming in ten years.

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5 years

First time founders are obsessed with product. Second time founders are obsessed with distribution.

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3 years

WallStreetBets subreddits has been taken down. This is the system working against the people.

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3 years

You are sabotaging your own personal and professional growth if you're not finding time to read. These are the books that changed my life, and what I learned from them:

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5 years

I’ve decided to quit drinking alcohol permanently. This will be a tough challenge for me: drinking has been a big part of my identity since I was in high school. Unfortunately it's also been an unhealthy way to avoid being fully in touch with my emotions & my experience of life.

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2 years

Thinking of quitting your job to go all-in on your startup? Don't do it. Well, not until you have at least these four things figured out:

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3 years

If you know you know

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3 years

Don't worry about people not liking you. Most of them don't even love themselves.

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2 years

Your first startup will probably be terrible, and that’s ok. Building a shitty first startup is one of the most important things you will ever do:

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3 years

Americans have figured out how to work, Europeans have figured out how to live.

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3 years

Did people treat me differently after I sold @Twitch ? Absolutely. Here's what $970,000,000 taught me about life, fake friends, and making new ones:

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5 years

If you think something positive about someone, you should tell them. It is the easiest and cheapest way to create value that exists in the world.

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2 years

Read, travel, meet people, build things.

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6 years

Buddha once said everyone would experience 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows in their lifetime. Start a startup to get the 10,000 sorrows out of the way first.

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2 years

Don't hire people who have never failed at anything.

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5 years

Everyone says they love learning, but learning is mostly struggling and failing until you finally figure something out. If you want to grow you have to accept pain.

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2 years

If you can, read books that teach you how to think, not what to think.

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3 years

Y Combinator How it started: How it's going:

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5 years

When you have something you want to do in your life: Just fucking do it. Don’t second guess yourself, don’t overthink it. Go with your instincts and have a bias to action.

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3 years

Invest in waking up better. The return on your morning routine is 100x.

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2 years

Cooking your own meals and hand-washing all your dishes is a great way to meditate.

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5 years

Here’s how to build a company (or really do anything challenging) while being happy: 1/ Realize that if you achieve your goal, you actually won’t be any happier than you are right now. This is easy to say but hard to do. Set a reminder to meditate on this every day.

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4 years

Can we agree to build nuclear power plants now?

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Mayor Karen Bass

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It’s almost 3 p.m. Time to turn off major appliances, set the thermostat to 78 degrees (or use a fan instead), turn off excess lights and unplug any appliances you’re not using. We need every Californian to help conserve energy. Please do your part. #FlexAlert

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3 years

Class action lawsuit filed in NY against Robinhood

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BREAKING: Class action complaint against @RobinhoodApp filed in the southern district of NY

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There's too much money chasing too few startups right now. Good time to start a company.

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Justin Kan

9 years

Startups mostly don't compete against each other, they compete against no one giving a shit

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6 years

When I feel frustrated by how long things take...

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4. Subpoena all emails and communications between the hedge funds who were taking huge losses who are investors in Robinhood (example: D1 Capital. D1 was down $4bn on its shorts and only has $200mn investment in Robinhood.

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3 years

During today's short ladder... •There was 443k shares sold in a single batch at $120 at 11:24:36 AM EST. • There was 347k shares sold in a single batch at $140 at 11:19:09 AM EST. Someone took a total loss of $300M from the price an hour prior OR that is a $100M short sale.

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We systemically overweight experience and underweight motivation. This is why startups can exist.

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3 years

Got to meet my favorite streamers @alexandravbotez @itsandreabotez

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2 years

All roads lead to crypto.

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2 years

It’s 2013. I’m running a failing services company into the ground, binge-drinking daily, and suffering from severe anxiety and depression. If you have ever felt like you’re drowning, keep reading:

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4 years

We're selling our house and moving out of SF. Where should we go and why?

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3 years

It took me a long time to learn that happiness is something you can train yourself to become better at it. It just takes some dedication, practice and persistence. These habits have helped me become a much happier person:

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4 years

You are not what you do for work.

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2 years

Great hires blow your mind on their first day.

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4 years

Thank you to all the clients, investors, and Atrium team members who took a swing. Things didn't work out as planned and that is my responsibility. We took a swing at something big and you all have my admiration and gratitude.

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3 years

At the end of the day, all of us are trying to figure out how to feel like a kid again.

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5 years

At the end of every meeting, create a feedback google doc. Use this template: [name] Like: Wish That: Share with every attendee and have them spend the last 5 minutes of the meeting filling it out live together. You will learn a lot. Make this part of your company culture.

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4 years

Fake friends reach out when they need something. Real friends reach out when they think you need something.

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5 years

There’s no hack to being happy. Happiness isn’t an on/off switch. “If I finally get X, I’ll be happy” is a lie. Like fitness, happiness is built over time through practice. Practice is gratitude, connection to people around you, compassion. You can change your baseline.

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2 years

You only need one thing to work every 10 years to be rich af.

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2 years

If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you launched too late

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5 years

If you quit because you found a new passion or purpose, fine. But don’t quit because you are scared or stressed and running away. And don’t lie to yourself about the reason either.

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5 years

The two most important qualities in a founder are self-awareness and a growth mindset. Self-awareness = knowing what you need to improve Growth mindset = you can improve anything

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6 years

. @jack ceo of the year

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2 years

If you are in your twenties listen up Here’s what I wish I could tell my younger self:

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@jamiequint @Jauny @VCBrags @robinchan Turns out being snarky on twitter correlates with being a strong engineer, who knew?

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3 years

The next tech billionaire will be the person to figure out how to put CBD in an NFT

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5 years

One of the reasons people have told me they’ve quit their daily gratitude journal is because it feels repetitive after a while. It’s a fallacy of our modern society that we only value the new and exciting. It’s great to be thankful for the same things every day.

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To feel better, do three things: diet, exercise and sleep.

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The energy you put out into the world is the energy that will be reflected back at you. A very practical reason to live a life of gratitude.

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3 years

Not wrong

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The difference between living and existing is purpose.

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One of the ways to truly understand someone: travel with them.

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5 years

1/ If you don’t have product-market fit, your startup is fucked. You probably don’t have it if: You aren’t growing You have high churn Your product is hard to sell Customers don’t seem to care that much Here are some simple steps to find product-market fit

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6 years

I used to think I was smart but now I realize I mostly don’t know anything

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Justin Kan

2 years

I never thought that I would ever be a founder again. Well...l'm back. I’ve spent a lot of my career connecting games, creators, and gamers. @Twitch is already a big part of the metaverse. @fractalwagmi is the next step. [thread]

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Introducing Fractal.

Discover, buy and sell gaming nfts

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5 years

Today is my birthday. I’ve learned more in the last year than in any other year of my life. Here are some of the things I’ve been working on:

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It doesn’t matter how good your ideas are if you can’t communicate them.

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3 years

If true, actions like these should be a financial crime. SEC/Congress should be investigating. Everyone fighting against brokerages restricting stocks to help hedge funds is on the right side of justice.

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6 years

1/ Actually I’ve learned a lot from @ROWGHANI that’s worth sharing. First, your job as CEO is to: make sure there’s $ in the bank, define the company’s mission, hire the senior team, and do maybe one thing you enjoy (sales, product, etc)

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It’s been a wild ten years for me. Here’s a bunch of things I’ve learned in the last decade: Things that seem disastrous at the time can happen for a reason. Some of my most important learnings came from failures that I thought were the end of the world in the moment.

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4 years

Someone should create an institute that publishes postmortems on laws passed. I.e. 5 years in, here is what the legislators promised would happen, and here is what happened. And then ruthlessly call out lawmakers that passed laws with negative unintended consequences.

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If something is important to you, make time for it. If you don't make time for it, it probably isn't important to you. Your actions are your prioritization.

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Stop excusing yourself for being bad at things. You can be good at anything you are willing to set your mind to and practice (a lot). “I’m just not good at X” means “I don’t care enough to become good at X”.

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A few weeks I wrote out what I've been doing to improve my baseline happiness. I originally wrote it to send only to personal friends. Some of them encouraged me to share it publicly. I hope its useful to some of you!

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2 years

These are the biggest startup red flags I look for when getting pitched. If I see any of these, I am out:

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5 years

Today is my 101st day alcohol free, which is officially the longest stretch since high school. I’ve been feeling great - I’ve been able to meditate and workout every day, have more energy during the day, and been able to get in touch with my full range of emotions.

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Don’t be afraid to admit the answer is “I don’t know” — you will be respected more for it

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3 years

I've been a mentor to countless founders over the years Here are the common traps 🪤 founders fall into that guarantee failure:

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3 years

The 5% Rule: Most people out there probably only know a little bit more than you. You only need to know 5% more than someone on a topic to sound like an expert.

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Adopt an attitude of taking 100% responsibility for your life at home and at work. Not for others’ sake but for your own: feeling like things are happening *to* you and not because of your choices will make you miserable.

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I used to think as an entrepreneur everything I’d got I’d earned. More recently I’ve realized there was a huge amount of infrastructure set up for me to make it (educated workforce, execs, the internet) and I really controlled a much smaller % of the outcome than I’d thought.

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4 years

What is the point of keeping the Bay Area locked down until June? What are we going to get in another month? Unless we are willing to lockdown until there is a vaccine (18 months), it seems to me that we are continuing to put economic hardship on people for nothing...

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2 years

Always always always invest in people.

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It’s pretty profound that exercise makes you happy.

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5 years

Today I have been alcohol free for 6 months! A few observations, as someone who used to drink all the time:

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3 years

Habits can be brutal. I’ve spent the majority of life battling bad ones: including wrestling with alcohol addition for 20+ years. I learned how to hack habits with help from @JamesClear ’s book Atomic Habits. Here’s a summary of what worked for me:

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3 years

Every job will be automated until four remain: Youtuber, Entrepreneur, Tweeter, Venture Capitalist I’m in good shape

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Don’t be anxious. Experience reality when it happens. Know whatever comes, you will find a way to deal with it.

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3 years

Thus D1 profits more by having Robinhood cease trading in their shorts than their Robinhood investment)

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4 years

I thought I was invincible but the truth is we are all just fragile bags of water. Life is a passing dream. You can wake up at any time. Be grateful for every moment you have.

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