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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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...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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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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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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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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My CTO, Jacob, he's like one year older than me, but like a 100 times smarter. So you meet him at university, you become friends. Do you start tinkering on ideas together then when you're doing CS together? I mean, they spend most of the time playing
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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 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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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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...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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“Started first business at 11: How early entrepreneurship shapes venture investors”
yourself and sort of talking us through your your career a little bit up until up until now. Yeah. I'll I'll try to give you the reasonably short story, but Oh, we've got time. We've got time. Alright
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because at first, I didn't decide to be an entrepreneur. It wasn't like I was like, ah, there's a career entrepreneur. I'm gonna do it. I just I just started. I just started when I was 19, when I was 20. I started my first company, and I sold it then
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But despite those divisions, what I saw at least was opportunity and a lot of people who were making the best out of challenging situations. And so when I think about entrepreneurship, that's sort of the lens that I always saw the world through, whic
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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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...founder at the solar company. I was one of the first employees. And then the last question I wanted to answer was, did I want to be an investor? I did lead a $15,000,000 equity raise for the solar company and was curious as to what it was like to be
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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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The opportunity to be my own boss, and I even started McGill classmates, a small consulting firm during one of the summers. So this idea of starting a company, being an entrepreneur, it goes back to the beginning. And so when I was in my second year
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