
Garry Tan
@garrytan • 862,661 subscribers
President & CEO @ycombinator —Founder @garryslist—Creator of GStack & GBrain—designer/engineer who helps founders—SF Dem accelerating the boom loop
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The NYT is predictably tearing down Reese Witherspoon for encouraging moms to try AI before they ingest the anti-AI pablum as truth Instead of linking to the NYT op-ed, I think you should watch this video and encourage you to follow Reese Witherspoon on Instagram
Garry Tan1,246,902 просмотров • 18 дней назад
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"To fund his golfing ambitions, McIlroy's parents took on extra jobs. Gerry worked 100 hours a week; he cleaned toilets and showers at a local sports club in the mornings, served as a bartender at Holywood Golf Club from 12 to 6 pm, then returned to the sports club to work behind the bar in the evenings. Rosie looked after Rory during the day, and worked night shifts packaging rolls of tape at a 3M factory in Bangor, County Down. Due to their conflicting schedules, McIlroy's parents rarely saw each other during this period. Gerry later said: "I had no idea what else to do. I’m a working-class man. We wanted to give our only child a chance." After finding success as a professional golfer, McIlroy bought his parents a house in 2009, and stated: "I’ll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they’ll never have to work another day. I’ll do whatever it takes to look after them."
Garry Tan8,102,312 просмотров • 1 год назад

Now announcing: Garry's List We’re starting a citizen’s union for radical centrism. We proved local politics is winnable in SF. Now we’re building the community to do it everywhere — news, commentary, and accountability for policies that affect California and our society.
Garry Tan402,202 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

AI coding agents hit a wall when codebases get massive. Even with 2M token context windows, a 10M line codebase needs 100M tokens. The real bottleneck isn't just ingesting code - it's getting models to actually pay attention to all that context effectively.
Garry Tan976,161 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад

I am so thankful for Paul Graham Jessica Livingston Brian Chesky Carolynn Levy for believing me and selecting me to be the President & CEO of YC. To be able to lead this brilliant band of partners is beyond the best job I’ve ever had! If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life
Garry Tan209,876 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

Alexandr Wang: The future isn't humans vs AI - it's humans managing AI chaos. Even self-driving cars need 1 human operator per 5 cars to handle edge cases. The last 10% of accuracy? That's where humans shine. Management isn't going away, it's evolving.
Garry Tan840,713 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад

Better to hire and fund people who are scrappy and hungry, who can build, who have high velocity, than the person with the fancy resume with the huge ego YC has *never* had success funding or hiring the latter "Hire for slope, not y-intercept." —Paul Buchheit
Garry Tan616,446 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад

Saikat Chakrabarti made his fortune in tech. Now he wants to ban the data centers that power AI in San Francisco, the most important growth industry in the city and the engine of downtown's recovery. That's not regulation. It's a kill switch. It kills SF jobs, guts the tax base, and hands the AI race to China. A self-funded centi-millionaire with no SF roots, tech wealth making sure nobody else can get it, pulling up the ladder, not representing the desires of San Franciscans. Under no circumstances can he be elected to Congress.
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Sam Altman's advice to founders worried about OpenAI competition: "Don't build our core chat assistant. There's so much more space to go after." Count on the models getting far smarter. Sam promises "Sign in with ChatGPT" which would be powerful with access to memory.
Garry Tan552,921 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад

Holistic college admissions? More like hostile and racist. 18-yo prodigy Stanley Zhong gets Google L4 but is rejected by 16 colleges. I sat with his YC-alum dad Nan, who sued UC to crack open the admissions black box. The American Dream demands merit not more racism 👇
Garry Tan537,159 просмотров • 1 год назад

Elon Musk's formula for success: Ego ÷ Ability < 1 When your ego exceeds your ability, you break the feedback loop to reality. Smash your ego. Internalize responsibility. Do whatever it takes. The goal isn't glory—it's true work that serves the most people.
Garry Tan437,217 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад

Sam Altman says Artificial Superintelligence is thousands of days away. There is a lot of compounding left to do. What happens then? Fix climate, space colonies, limitless intelligence, understanding physics, abundant energy. Think bigger. The age of abundance is nigh.
Garry Tan650,837 просмотров • 1 год назад

Jung said: “The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate.” Founders on their journey must overcome their inner situation and integrate their shadow. Only then will they have a chance at altering fate itself.
Garry Tan359,935 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад

Steve Jobs got fired from Apple, started NeXT, failed selling the hardware, pivoted to software, then Apple bought NeXT for $400M. It became macOS. Most founders quit at the first wall. Jobs hit dozens and kept finding new paths. Great founders know they can solve the maze.
Garry Tan332,381 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад