Episode · This Week in Startups · 2020-05-29

Books mentioned on E1067: Garry Tan, Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Initialized Capital, on dealing with downstream investors as a Seed-stage firm, software companies acting as governments, possibility of building IPO-level companies while fully-distributed & much more!

2 books · With Garry Tan · Listen · Watch on YouTube

1:03 Jason intros Garry Tan and checks in on how his quarantine has been going 4:39 How does Garry look at Initialized's portfolio companies? What are his 3 groups of companies dealing with COVID?

Garry Tan discussed The Dollar Crisis by Richard Duncan and The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and others.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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1. 

   The Dollar Crisis

   Richard Duncan · at 1:03:24

   Discussed

   “one of the books they made us all read was this book called the the dollar crisis is actually a really interesting book”

   Garry Tan E1067: Garry Tan, Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Initialized Capital… 2020-05-29 Listen at 1:03:24

   Where to get it

   AmazonListen on Audible
2. 

   The Sovereign Individual

   James Dale Davidson; William Rees-Mogg · at 1:03:30

   The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg is a visionary late-twentieth-century book that anticipates the decline of the nation-state and the rise of decentralized digital economies, remote work, and cryptocurrencies.

   Discussed

   “the other one that everyone knows to read is the sovereign individual obviously”

   Garry Tan E1067: Garry Tan, Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Initialized Capital… 2020-05-29 Listen at 1:03:30

   Where to get it

   AmazonListen on Audible