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The Super Upside Factor: Asymmetric Principles to 10x Your Life

The Super Upside Factor: Asymmetric Principles to 10x Your Life

Softbank investor and Y-Combinator startup founder distilling strategies to generate outsized returns in life decisions.

2025

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3 Reasons Your Side Hustles are Ruining Your Career

Paradox of Efficiency Maximization

Nov 14, 2024

3 Reasons Your Side Hustles are Ruining Your Career

Nov 14, 2024

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Entrepreneurship Handbook

Why The Top 1% of Founders Quit Their Startups

Framework of quitting from a YC Founder, ex-MBB consultant, and Softbank Investor

Aug 18, 2023

Why The Top 1% of Founders Quit Their Startups

Aug 18, 2023

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The Startup

3 Reasons You Shouldn’t Take That Startup Job Offer — From a VC who Invested $500m in Startups

Let me do the math for you

Jun 24, 2023

3 Reasons You Shouldn’t Take That Startup Job Offer — From a VC who Invested $500m in Startups

Jun 24, 2023

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A Crash Course on Venture Capital From an Ex-investor at a $100 Billion Fund

The only industry that pays you millions even if you lose money

Apr 13, 2023

A Crash Course on Venture Capital From an Ex-investor at a $100 Billion Fund

Apr 13, 2023

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The Only Cheat Sheet You Need for Early-Stage Investor Meetings

From a former Softbank investor and YC founder

Mar 29, 2022

The Only Cheat Sheet You Need for Early-Stage Investor Meetings

Mar 29, 2022

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Original Philosophy

Are We Political Idiots? Your Moral Duty to Take a Public Stance.

Do We Owe the World Our Opinion?

Dec 30, 2024

Are We Political Idiots? Your Moral Duty to Take a Public Stance.

Dec 30, 2024

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Entrepreneurship Handbook

Breaking Barriers: YC Immigrant Founder’s Guide to O-1 Visas

Cracking the code with your talent

Dec 30, 2024

Breaking Barriers: YC Immigrant Founder’s Guide to O-1 Visas

Dec 30, 2024

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The Startup

You’re Wasting Money on Pitch Decks— From an Investor at a $100 Billion Fund

Spend it on what matters: your company

Nov 29, 2024

You’re Wasting Money on Pitch Decks— From an Investor at a $100 Billion Fund

Nov 29, 2024

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The Startup

Why I Don’t Tip Liars

The real problem with tipping culture

Jun 6, 2024

Why I Don’t Tip Liars

Jun 6, 2024

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The Startup

Skip the Startup — Own Your Million-Dollar Company for the Price of a Tesla

Alternative to bootstrapping and venture-funding

Mar 10, 2024

Skip the Startup — Own Your Million-Dollar Company for the Price of a Tesla

Mar 10, 2024

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YC Founder | Wiley Author | ex-Softbank Investor https://itsdankang.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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