Bryant Wu

Apoorva's superpower is optimization. He's just said, "These are the 19 things we need to accomplish to make the unit economics work. And I'm halfway on this one and just laid it out."

Like you said, you examine the invention and then it tells you so much about the inventor. What that also tells me is if I were, instead of an investor at that moment at Y Combinator, if was trying to decide if I was going to go work there, that was going to be the way I could tell I wanted to work there

Typically, a true economic effect is usually seen through average revenue per user going up (even adjusted for engagement) due to increased conversion rates largely due to the data network effect.

Taking the time to make sure that every hire early on is the right person and the right fit, the right combination of courage, brains, and heart is incredibly important. I've always been very focused on that. The mistakes you ask about. I guess my advice to entrepreneurs out there, and I guess any businessperson honestly, is that it takes some expe... See more

One of my fundamental insights along with Lloyd Frank, who's my co-founder at Zillow, and was at Microsoft, and Expedia, and Zillow with me as well, was that a regular person armed with a connected PC that's plugged into the internet was going to in effect, storm the best deal. Was going to be armed with a weapon to tear down every wall that separa... See more

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The first is probably not having a team that has the skills. You so often run into people who can't code, but want to do a startup and then don't have a co-founder who can code. That's probably the number one

sometimes as an entrepreneur, you have to over-index to courage. You have to think about the world that you wish to exist, not the one that does exist. As investor, I'm constantly looking at distribution of probabilities, that those outcomes will in fact be achieved.

Going back to how a lot of investors operate, it's very ego-driven. It's very driven by one personality or a bunch of lone wolves who happen to run in a pack, and I don't think that's how capital deployment should work. I genuinely believe we need a hive mind, and that's what we've done at Initialized.