In one o, an out of ten deals. How often do you get asked as a seed stage investor to give up your prorada? You know, hat's interesting is that most of the time it's actually a ys taking their programmatic rada and they've actually stepped that back. So i that's actually worked out really well. Explain that the right move they were taking. They were trying to maintain their seven per cent indefinitely,. Which seems reasonable. I'm going to raise the continuation fund. I raised the first couple million dollars of the wice continuity fund. That was the b so, mike bloomberg, people don't know that, i guess that he...
1:03 Jason intros Garry Tan and checks in on how his quarantine has been going
4:39 How does Garry look at Initialized's portfolio companies? What are his 3 groups of companies dealing with COVID?
8:04 How will VCs react to the crisis? Why does Initialized specifically focus on Seed-stage companies?
11:13 How does Initialized contact downstream investors about their companies, and how has that changed during COVID?
14:12 Thoughts on Posterous, data-storage singularity & more
18:04 Losing thousands of photos after getting banned from Flickr and how that plays into software as the new government, becoming a super-router
22:32 How Spotify's access to public capital gives them an acquisition advantage, collab concepts
24:51 How does Initialized size their follow-on investments?
29:11 For how long is Initialized planning on operating fully remote? Thoughts on going back to work
35:56 What skills has Garry had to improve during his investing career?
43:33 How downstream investors try and take advantage of early-stage investors
47:51 Thoughts on Clubhouse investment, how/if they can scale their exclusivity
56:27 Thoughts on founders selling secondary shares, and how Chris Sacca helped Garry Tan at Posterous
1:02:09 Structural inequality leading to rich-bashing, how Fiat currency impacts welfare inequality
1:07:09 Thoughts on UBI, Instacart, potential profitability of food-delivery companies
1:11:31 Perception of Tech in the Bay Area, commercial real-estate in SF, Facebook's game-theory remote pay scale
1:18:27 Could today's tech giants (Google, Facebook, Uber) have grown to the heights they did as fully remote companies? Can IPO-level companies be consistently built while remote?
1:24:49 Do the best founders appear ageless? New Twitter features: good or bad?