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What Would Justin Kan Tell a Founder Who Is Just Starting?
On the a16z podcast, Justin Kan is asked what he would tell himself at 22 or 23. The joke is that he should have joined Facebook. The real list is personal. Work on self-improvement. Stop eating pizza at the office. Remember that things take time. It is not a one-year sprint that ends with a billionaire. He points at Amazon's value, a curve stretched over many years, and says a founder who quit at year fifteen thinking they had arrived would have left a different company. Silicon Valley always asks what the new thing is. Kan says he has to keep reminding himself to stay.
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