Garry Tan

“On top of this library sits my agentic coding framework, G-Stack, 123,000 stars now, which put it in the top 100 open source projects in the history of GitHub.”

“Emergent out of our summer 24 batch went from public launch to nine figures of revenue in eight months. When they crossed $15 million in annualized revenue, they were 15 people.”

“Retool winter 24 hit 60 million annualized with about 40. That revenue per person did not exist before.”

“When a meeting recording lands from Circleback, transcribe it with speaker labels. Pull out the commitment made, who made it, and the deadline.”

“At YC, we get to watch this at portfolio scale. A year and a half ago in the winter 25 batch, a quarter of the companies had code bases that were 95% AI generated. Those companies use AI agents for everything now, not just code. And that batch is on track to becoming one of the fastest growing, most profitable batches in the history of YC.”

“The corporate AGI you don't own gets better only when the company ships something. Your personal AGI gets better every single day you use it because every day it knows more of your life. One of these is a product you consume. The other is an asset you build.”