Secret Stash
Secret Stash
Justin Kan and Archie Stonehill
The Secret to Finding Your Co-Founder: Justin Kan, Robin Chan, Dan Borstelmann
56 minutes Posted May 14, 2024 at 7:08 am.
Meet the Stash co-founders
How Justin and Robin met
Justin gets arrested
Justin and Robin reconnect
Bringing on Dan
Two types of product people
Promoting Dan to co-founder
Different career paths
Justin’s job as a stockroom attendant
Complementary skill sets are key
How to find a good partner
Pivoting JustinTV and tips
Pivoting Fractal
Macro vs micro investments
How JustinTV beat out a competitive market
Swapping entrepreneur secrets
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It was 2007 and Robin Chan was running the mobile data business at Verizon while Justin Kan was rolling out JustinTV’s first prototype - a camera strapped to his head (literally). It was the perfect meetcute: Justin needed inexpensive mobile data to livestream his day-to-day and Robin had access to tons of it (In fact, Robin was the first one to put YouTube on a cell phone!). Turns out the deal didn’t go as planned though, and the two went their separate ways.
Then nearly fifteen years later, in 2021 they reconnected, teamed up as co-founders, and created their investment fund Goat Capital. Since then, they’ve founded and invested in dozens of companies - including Stash.
In this episode of Secret Stash, co-host Archie Stonehill and Stash co-founders - Justin Kan, Robin Chan, and Dan Borstelmann - share stories on each stage of gaming entrepreneurship:
- how the founding team got together and why it’s stuck
- creating hypotheses and knowing when to change gears
- doubling down on macro market trends
- establishing a defensible product strategy
- executing on product excellence
Read the highlights here: https://dev.stash.gg/blog/secret-stash-ep-2-justin-kan-shares-the-secret-to-finding-your-co-founder
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