Andrew Chan

Jan 7, 2025 | allbusiness.com | Andrew Chan

I did everything right growing up. I studied hard, got good grades, went to an Ivy League university, received my bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering, and later got my MBA from NYU. I landed a job on Wall Street and was making six figures a year analyzing data for traders and management. Although the work-life balance was okay, I always felt as though something was missing. I never felt like I had full control of my life.

Nov 14, 2024 | chandr3w.medium.com | Andrew Chan

Andrew Chan·Follow4 min read·--some day this will be “the heat” at a thrift store: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/166141600About 11 months ago I quit my job at Builders VC with the goal of starting something new. At the time I wasn’t willing to share much, and I know a lot of you have been waiting for the update, so here it is: I’ve left investing behind and become a full time fashion designer.

Nov 1, 2024 | 4columns.org | Andrew Chan

In Thrall Andrew Chan Jane DeLynn’s newly republished coming-of-age novel set in the pre-Stonewall ’60s is comedic, haunting, and decidedly untidy. In Thrall, by Jane DeLynn, Semiotext(e), 311 pages, $17.95•   •   •For some closeted queer kids, the burdensome pressure to declare your identity can result in a kind of openly combative precociousness.

Oct 8, 2024 | chandr3w.medium.com | Andrew Chan

Andrew Chan·Follow4 min read·--Unfortunately, there was no image of Moo Deng that I could photoshop a Patagonia vest onto so please enjoy this low-quality meme instead. Sure, she’s cute. She’s pudgy. And she likes biting her humans. But behind the adorable façade, Moo Deng represents one of the greatest weaknesses of the venture capital industry: the charismatic animal fallacy. For those of you who don’t know, my first “job” was as an unpaid keeper’s assistant at the Denver Zoo.

Jul 26, 2024 | medium.com | Andrew Chan

For the last month I've been debating with one of my friends about the benefit/drawback of a concentrated portfolio approach. I can tell him that mathematically spray and pray funds underperform concentrated portfolios, with multiple case studies, but I couldn't mathematically explain why the law of large numbers wouldn't apply. In other words, more startup investments should hypothetically get you closer to obeying a theoretical probability distribution, a theoretical power law.