Jon Chou

Entrepreneur. Looking for something new. Former Co-Founder & CEO of Beenest and Bee Token. Former lead engineer @Uber. Boba is bad for you.

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

The best fundraising method is 1. Know the space better than the VCs 2. Achieve results faster than the “silicon valley standard” 3. Believe in yourself and your team - as a founder you are always investor #1

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The more successful the founder, the less they tend to know about fundraising technique. E.g. Zuck has only had to raise money a few times, and every time investors were already eager to give him money.

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

@bhalligan @yaminirangan wishing you a speedy recovery 🙏

[Joon Lee @joonlee]

Jeremy Lin: “Being a 9-year NBA veteran doesn’t protect me from being called ‘coronavirus’ on the court.” https://t.co/Am4GmuluUE

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

After talking to hundreds of candidates, I'm impressed by the level of independent thinking for candidates based in the Bay Area.

Though I wish it wasn't true though for a variety of reasons.

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

I wonder if the fear of failure is the greatest impediment to human progress.

And I wonder how we can fix that stigma.

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

What makes leaders strong is failure.

When their employees or reports face the same failure - a great leader knows how to handle the situation and get the employee back up.

Failure is inevitable, it's how you deal with it that makes all the difference.

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

An alteration of @paulg's advice:

Work hard for your first 100 customers.
Work smart for your next 10,000 customers.

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

@sir helpful guide!!

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

Imposter syndrome is still so crazy to me sometimes.

Being in Silicon Valley for 5-6 years has made me realize: no matter how stacked your resume is, you will never know 100% whether you're ready.

If you want something, just go for it. The only way to learn is trial and error.

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

Good ole times.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Bitcoin is now at $140 billion market cap.

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

Still havent used before but should probably check it out I guess

[VentureBeat @VentureBeat]

Neighborhood social network Nextdoor raises $123 million at $2.1 billion valuation https://t.co/pfDGVq5LRl

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

"History belongs to the doers" -@sama
https://t.co/IGSN1XJdlC

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

You can have anything you want, but you can't have everything you want. Targeting the former is a goal; targeting the latter will set you up to suffer.

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

High scores are meant to be broken.

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

@GuyKawasaki said that lists should always be 10 points long as a standard. @reidhoffman has mentioned this before too. But I believe after 2020, the standard will be 5 in an attention span decreasing world.

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

Who are your top 5 favorite CEOs?

Mine are currently: @elonmusk @finkd @JeffBezos @travisk and Larry Page. Ironically, most don't actively use @Twitter.

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

For all engineers complaining about how hard it is to learn non-engineering skills: it's much harder the other way around (non-engineering -> engineering).

And even that's possible in 3-9 months through code camps like @lamdaschool or @hackreactor.

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

I wish I could summon my #iPhone like Thor summons his hammer.

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

Good day for cryptocurrency. Been a while since Bitcoin has broke 7k! #bitcoin

[Jon Chou @jonchouu]

I probably spend as much time looking for my phone as I do actually using my phone.

[Niche Gamer @nichegamer]

@elonmusk >tfw you're the first person to even suggest living in space with a viable plan and everyone else is hitching a ride.
*Dab*