Garry Tan and Justin Kan (Twitch Co-Founder) Roast Startup Pitch Decks

This week I'm sitting down with Justin Kan, a friend and co-founder of Twitch, to roast (and help) your startup pitch decks. There's something to learn from every company here, so I hope you dive in and learn something new about how to pitch your company to investors (and founders) like us. Let's get into it.

I'm Garry Tan, venture capitalist and founder at Initialized Capital. We were earliest investors in billion dollar startups like Coinbase and Instacart, and I'm a Forbes Midas List Top 100 venture capitalist in the world. We want these videos to be about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people. Our startups have gone on to create more than $100 billion in market value so far, and Initialized has over $1B in assets under management.

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[kaushalshah]

Thank you so much Garry & Justin for having us. It was extremely useful and thought provoking. We already made few changes to the deck :).

[AXBA]

These "roasts" are interesting, thought-provoking and entertaining, keep them coming!

[kevinpowell]

Great job guys. this is INVALUABLE to startup founders. Getting to be a fly on the wall and hear what investors are actually thinking while going through our decks is so helpful. thank you

[sicktastic.videos]

You guys should do this more often. Make it a regular thing. So valuable coming from you two.

[orionx]

It's so wholesome you guys brought the founders on to explain the business

[kdd]

Slingshot has a potential to transform a heavily credential-driven hiring/recruitment approach to a skill-based one -- where age, geography, socioeconomic status and costly credentials are not barriers to entry for top-tier jobs. Colleges these days cost soooo much. It would be cool to get trained and work in top-tier industry jobs without going $200+ in debt.

[orionx]

"The top high school talent is probably better than freelancers" and I took that personally

[slingshotahead]

We have placed students in many fields including: SWE, WebDev, ML/AI, Data Analytics, Computational Biology, Systems Engineering and non-tech roles like marketing, SEO, technical writing, social media management to nam a few!

[readmycomment]

I love these formats, gives real insight into how you assess all the ideas you get pitched

[porkyz]

I'm really in love with this and I'm so grateful that yall are taking the time to do this for others.
One of the things that stood out for me is when Garry gave a "grade" for the last pitch and it gave me an idea that I think would help even more.
What do yall think about rating each pitch at the end of each deck with a breakdown for why you chose that rating?
Idk if that falls in line with the whole "roasting" aspect of it though, but it's a thought.
I appreciate yall so much and I hope you keep up the good work.

[jonmiles]

This reminds me of so many pitch meetings I've been in. Unvarnished. Direct. Everyone should watch this again. And again. All this shorthand screams real. Great video guys.

[rawscientistofficial]

Two of my favorite people in the investing world! Thank you❤️

[jennyxu]

These types of CEO interview/sitdown videos are so helpful for me! Thanks for the great content as always Garry!

[NewcolorStudio]

Loved picking up PT. 2 on this channel! Good shit. I pick up so much bizness education in the small moments with you both.

[TheFifthElement]

Garry, I had no idea you had a YouTube channel! This is fantastic!

[chiefolk]

17:00 they aren't missing a zero it is lakh in india 1, 00, 000 1lakh = 100k 9 lakhs 900k I'm from India too nice to see you both churning through ideas want to see more.. how do we send you our pitch

[beep]

I think the 40% for slingshot would be a fee paid by the startups like other placement agencies.

[ahmedaljunaibi]

this is the most valuable channel on YouTube

[farridermithrandir]

'Ab' means 'Now' and 'Har' means 'Every'. 'Ab' (अब) and 'Har' (हर) are words belonging to the Hindi language.

[hm-lqrr]

This was really cool, any chance this can be done once every quarter or so with new guests?

Great way for aspiring founders to learn as well as founders to connect with top gurus