- Justin Kan is a mid-30s entrepreneur who sold his previous startup, Twitch, to Amazon for $1 billion, and has raised millions in VC funding for his current project, the legal startup Atrium.
- On Twitter, Kan reflected back on the past decade, and what's he learned in the 2010s.
- "Lasting happiness comes from connection to other people, gratitude, and the release of self-tortured striving," he wrote.
- With his permission, we've shared his Tweets.
- He says the most important thing for success in work is who you work with. And that achieving your goals won't lead to lasting happiness - that comes from gratitude and connecting with others.
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It's been a wild ten years for me. Here's a bunch of things I've learned in the last decade: Things that seem disastrous at the time can happen for a reason. Some of my most important learnings came from failures that I thought were the end of the world in the moment.