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brianliou91 | 3 years ago | on: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

When I was in YC Garry showed me how to be a founder. After YC Garry showed me how to be a more compassionate human to myself and others. I'd recommend everyone check out the inner work Garry has also achieved beyond his external achievements.

Congrats Garry!

brianliou91 | 4 years ago | on: On Being Indispensable

There is a difference between having power and being indispensable.

Power enables you to delegate whereas if you are indispensable but leadership has no idea what you do, you are powerless and stuck.

It's not fair that power is determined subjectively and largely politically, but it's the reality we live in.

brianliou91 | 6 years ago | on: Elizabeth Warren’s simple case for breaking up big tech

I think Warren is fantastic but I feel like her argument for Amazon is flawed and I'm curious to hear counter arguments.

In her example of Amazon being a platform and information aggregator, wouldn't a brick & mortar grocery chain like Safeway/Vons/CVS be guilty of the same anti-competitive practices when they sell "Safeway Brand Fruity Os" next to Kellogg Fruit Loops?

Businesses seem to have been able to be platforms and information aggregators for a very long time and we've had plenty of innovation and competition

brianliou91 | 6 years ago | on: Geoff Ralston taking over as President of YC

When I was a 21 year old with a fledgling startup, Geoff kept a promise to me several years later that he definitely didn't need to and had barely any incentive to. He did it because he is a man of his word and I owe much of the opportunity I have in my career because of his integrity and that choice to keep it. Congrats Geoff! And THANKS!!!

brianliou91 | 7 years ago | on: Bogle Sounds a Warning on Index Funds

This is fascinating. Selfishly though this seems to signal for investors of index funds (such as myself) that they will only continue to be good investments unless major government regulation occurs.

Does anyone know of any investment risk to index funds if everyone is now doing it?

brianliou91 | 8 years ago | on: Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would outperform hedgefunds

Although there is still tons of money going to actively managed funds it seems to be more and more common knowledge that index fund investing is ultimately the smartest thing to do for personal finance.

Does anyone know what the risk factors are (if any) to this type of passive investing if EVERYONE begins to do the same thing?

brianliou91 | 9 years ago | on: YC Changes

I would personally seek Michael's advice when I was in the S15 batch because of how earnest his advice was. Even for companies outside his group you could really tell the effort he would give to provide quality guidance. One example of how much Michael cares was in the days before our demo day, I was the first to come in at 8AM and Michael literally had slept on the couch having stayed up all night providing feedback the night before. He comes out of the partners office, sits down, and has me pitch maybe 10 minutes after he probably woke up :) Congrats!

brianliou91 | 9 years ago | on: How to Keep a Journal

Great idea thanks for sharing! Using gmail as a journal though does seem to contradict the message in this article because by using Gmail, while it is extremely efficient, it's not 100% private. Maybe it's just my own paranoia but I feel like you would even more fall into that disconnect "between what I thought I was supposed to feel (what a normal person would feel) and what I actually felt." Or maybe I'm interpreting this article incorrectly?

brianliou91 | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Daybook – A new take on personal journaling

I signed up blindly out of curiosity! Agree that some context on the service needs to be added. I love the simplicity and feel. Reminds me a lot of medium and I've actually often caught myself journaling on medium by accident because it's so easy to do.

- The publish post button is weird though because I don't know what you mean by publish, is it being published to the public? Published as in like it's a finished entry?

brianliou91 | 11 years ago | on: Magic

Has our society really come to simply throwing money on paying two separate third parties to order FOOD? I use Magic, to use Postmates, to get Chipotle?! No offense but I feel like this is the most first world solution I've ever encountered. Congrats on the success and traffic though and best of luck on executing.
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