The Quest Pod with Justin Kan

You are sabotaging your own personal and professional growth if you're not finding time to read. Today I'm joined by my good friend Jason Tan (previously CEO of Sift) on books that shaped who are.

He…

Chris Best is the CEO and founder of Substack, an online publication platform that provides independent writers with distribution, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure. Chris represents an o…

We burned through $140 million dollars making these mistakes, so you don't have to. 

On this bonus episode, I'm joined by my friend James Beshara, CEO of Tilt, who also recently started Magic Mind. W…

I explain the thinking behind some of my best tweets: starting with the product v. distribution debate. 

Check out the tweets here:

1. First v second time founders: tweet 1
2. Motivation in startups: tweet 2
3. …

Steve Huffman is the founder and CEO of Reddit. I’ve watched his whole journey since we both started as entrepreneurs in 2005: from founding Reddit, getting acquired by Conde Nast, leaving the compan…

Sasha Grey is one of the coolest personalities on the internet. While she is probably best known for her legendary tenure in the porn industry, she has since found success as an artist. Sasha has tra…

Alexandra and Andrea Botez are my favorite content creators in the game right now. The sisters run BotezLive, one of the biggest chess-streaming channels on Twitch and YouTube with over 900,000 subsc…

I’ve known Alexis Ohanian for almost fifteen years, ever since we were in the trenches together as part of the first Y Combinator cohort. He is best known as the co-founder of Reddit, a fellow former…

Austen Allred is the founder and CEO of Lambda School, an online coding school that doesn’t charge students tuition until they get hired. Growing up Mormon, Austen worked as a missionary and lived ou…

Matteo Franceschetti is the CEO and co-founder of Eight Sleep, a smart mattress company focused on optimizing sleep quality, duration, and recovery through insights and analytics. The company has rai…

When Justin.tv launched in 2007, we had no idea what it would eventually become.

Don’t be fooled; the journey was far from glamorous. In this episode I sit down with my good friends and Twitch co-fou…

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Last week, Conor and I discussed augmenting collective and individua…

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Conor White-Sullivan is the founder of Roam Research, a note-taking app that is takin…

Gary Vaynerchuck (aka GaryVee) is the truest sense of the word ‘entrepreneur’ and has established himself as one of the most dynamic and charismatic business personalities on the Internet. Gary is th…

Robin Chan is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and one of my best friends. Last year, we co-founded Goat Capital, a $50 million seed fund. He has been an early investor in some of the biggest c…

Odunayo Eweniyi is an inspiring and refreshing ambassador for female founders around the world, and I’m very excited to bring you her story. The co-founder and COO of Piggy Vest is a Nigerian busines…

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Picking up wh…

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My first company, Twitch, sold for almost a billion dollars. My second one lost $75 million in 36 months. People love talking about success, but today I want to talk about failure. 

Early last year, …

Laura Deming is not your typical VC. She is the founder and partner of The Longevity Fund, a venture capital firm focused on the study of aging and life extension in humans. Home-schooled in New Zeal…