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It's a sweat driven story of an entrepreneur who started way back when he was a teenager. Ryan, welcome to masters of scale. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here. Great to have you here. Like a lot of our guests, you started your entrepren
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In Uganda, which is in the middle of Africa, everyone kind of has to work. So I started my first business when I was 10, selling extra snacks to my friends at school. I know. Not very generous, but I was very obsessed with the idea of actually, like,
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Talk about what it was like growing up and where your entrepreneurial spirit came from. I think it comes from my dad. My dad is an entrepreneur. We moved from Korea when I was three. This was, yeah, in the eighties. And he actually moved to Seattle a
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...here to capitalize on that. It's just a it's a match made in heaven. You created this almost out of college. You spent a little bit of time as a consultant, which I always find funny. Like, you're brand new out of college and you're a consultant. Lik
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...cofounders and and built entrepreneurs first, when we were 25. And we knew nothing about venture capital. We knew nothing about start ups. We started off as a as a education company basically and and weren't investing. And then, exactly ten years ago
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...were gonna be a founder young? And I I brought this one out. I could just see him getting so excited. And I it's so it's so funny, but I I think that these kind of stories are really common. So for me, going all the way back to high school, I would l
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can lead to a founder learning about a new opportunity. And, you know, this is a tried and true method of entrepreneurship. There's a great film called the founder. And in it, a guy named Ray Kroc is selling milkshakes. And then a certain store, he w
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Or YC founders? Why have they been so successful compared to normal distributions? It's because they invest their time early in their careers and doing things that are challenging and they stress themselves. They challenge themselves through the hype
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...and a founder yourself in the last few months. And I reflect back on our, you know, one on ones and the ants in the pants, the anxiety, anxiousness. There's always a desire to do more. And I've probably told you, like, yeah. That's that's cool. Like,
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So that we thought we might just write something more interesting and put those ads for those restaurant in the, essentially a magazine or booklet we created and then hopefully that people will be interested to take it. Right? So but because we write
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And just growing up with that influence in my life and seeing how he worked from home, and he was able to control his schedule, and and he was able to fit work into his life. I think those are all things that I grew up with and then one of those A lo
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...and got, introduced to the to the industry of venture capital from a college friend who, recognized my entrepreneurial spirit and was trying to coach me on what I might wanna do post college and, expose me to this wildly cool industry, which by the w
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and pretty much dumped in a school, left to figure out a new language, figure out new friends, things like that, and integrate into a new environment. So it caused me to become very independent at a young age And I had to figure out what needed to ge
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...Founders Fund named Trey. We were just at his fortieth birthday party. One thing that was mentioned was that he didn't get into Georgetown the first time, and he literally went and, like, set up a tent in front of the admissions office and was like,
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And then I ended up joining my old investors. So it's a very, you know, windy path to venture and start ups that just came from just pulling at threads and meeting the right people and just loving the people that I work with. So one of the things I l
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I had that itch to start something. My dad was also an entrepreneur. And so around the same time you started, I left to, you know, start the, you know, current company that I run. And one of the, you know, things that I always think about when people
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You know, it's interesting. I knew I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. Right? I tried to start some other businesses in the past. I had tried to start another hotel technology business also in the past, prior to business school, during business sc
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