Gary Tan
Garry Tan is the President and CEO of Y Combinator, a position he assumed in January 2023. He previously served as a partner at Y Combinator from 2011 to 2015, where he built key founder-facing software including Bookface and the Demo Day platform. Tan co-founded the venture capital firm Initialized Capital and the blogging platform Posterous, and was an early employee at Palantir Technologies. He is best known for his work funding and advising early-stage startups, having backed companies such as Coinbase, Instacart, and Flexport at their earliest stages.
“Incredible way to describe what they're doing. Like it makes software on the fly.”
Source→“Gary was our partner. He might've, he might've introduced us at one point too.”
Source→“If you're willing to spend $100,000 a year right now in tokens, you are living the way somebody in 2028 is going to live.”
Source→“You saw that Gary Tan and 200 startups wrote that letter. Why? Because they know that if this IP theft thing sticks, that all derivative works of Chinese models are tainted now too.”
Source→“"This is the age of the 40 year old solo founder. I mean, you don't have to be 40. You just have to have taste, you know?"”
Source→“'There is a great idea that I got to that Gary Tan had that I'll repeat here because I loved it so much this week, that if we get in the mindset of basically intelligence on tap, free tokens.'”
Source→“Rather than say no big deal, who cares at the seed level, Gary's like, no, man, be truthful and precise about your revenue.”
Source→“Gary's like, no, man, be truthful and precise about your revenue... I think it was simultaneously really good and really shrewd... Y Combinator has a dominant market share in the seed market, 25%.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.