Ethan Wang

bullish on the creative and indomitable human spirit.
SWE @LinkedIn | @ethangwang (35k+) | prev. @styl_app

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

Wsg X, I’m Ethan

20 y/o currently on leave from Purdue,
because I’ve learned more from hackathons and biographies

- NYC → NJ → SF Bay Area
- prev. @styl_app @LinkedIn @northropgrumman
- 35k+ Followers & 25M+ Views
- Listened to 260+ episodes of @FoundersPodcast
- Read 210 books
- Watched 468 Movies
- Listened to 888,379 mins of music
- Ex-professional ice hockey
- 18 collegiate + hs hackathon wins

I only live to follow my heart and find the others

so if you're into startups or just wanna be friends, let’s chop it up :)

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

“Reduce friction”

“Relentlessly cut down”

“Limit the number of conditional statements”

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

@aaronamano gon be a bit before quality starts to up its game

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

At one point in time, Craigslist was the birth place for Silicon Valley's startup ideas

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

Word of mouth is the strongest proof of product market fit

examples: Trader Joes, @Tesla, @innoutburger, @stripe, @Apple

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

@rishiswrld @styl_app @LinkedIn @northropgrumman @FoundersPodcast my goat 🙏

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

Wsg X, I’m Ethan

20 y/o currently on leave from Purdue,
because I’ve learned more from hackathons and biographies

- NYC → NJ → SF Bay Area
- prev. @styl_app @LinkedIn @northropgrumman
- 35k+ Followers & 25M+ Views
- Listened to 260+ episodes of @FoundersPodcast
- Read 210 books
- Watched 468 Movies
- Listened to 888,379 mins of music
- Ex-professional ice hockey
- 18 collegiate + hs hackathon wins

I only live to follow my heart and find the others

so if you're into startups or just wanna be friends, let’s chop it up :)

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

In my youth, I was extremely competitive with ice hockey and video games

but even though I got better at both, the cost was my friendships

I'd often mindlessly buy into many zero sum games until all I was left with was nothing

My competitive youth taught me a great lesson through loneliness, and it is why I will always think twice about participating in zero sum games

Zero To One is a great book on this concept, perfect competition on the wrong things

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

Sometimes I think about how lonely I am on this path towards success

But then I must remember, this loneliness isn't exclusive to me

My parents, who I've mostly ignored in this journey, want to speak to their son

And when I remember I need to call them, I remember, this life is not about you, it's about them

"Give, give, give"
~@garyvee

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

Part of why I dislike being a content creator is feeling the need to bull shit and hook my viewers into staying for longer

I think the viewers are smarter than we creators think them to be

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

How do you beat Bobby Fischer?
You play him at any game except chess

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

@AnmolShips @styl_app @LinkedIn @northropgrumman @FoundersPodcast Yezzir

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@juliali Lowk tuf

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

Everything is a science

advertising - Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins
f1 racing - The Formula by Jonathan Clegg + Joshua Robinson
startups - Zero To One by Peter Thiel
storytelling - On writing by Stephen King
conflict - Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmul
engineering - obviously lol
ideas - Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger

Study the greats, follow the guidelines of success

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

Why reading is so important for entrepreneurs

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

Lowk a slow read at first

But 20 pages in and my mind is genuinely blown

Insane how many factors account for cultish entrepreneurial success

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

@rishiswrld Excellence is the capacity to take pain

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

I think I’m regretting cutting off some of my friends

Because on one hand, the nights are very lonely
But on the other hand, I never would’ve gotten this far if I weren’t so alone

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

startups are like any other science

it's just their textbooks are biographies and books

but just like science, nothing happens unless you apply the science

So read books to understand startups
Then take action to apply the science of startups

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

each chapter of a book is like the length of an article