Garry Tan
Garry Tan is the President and CEO of Y Combinator, the prominent startup accelerator, and a co-host of the Lightcone podcast.
- Brian Chesky Says Every Company Has the Same AI Tools. Airbnb Ships 80% More Features Anyway. Here Is How.
- The State of Startups in 2026
- Northern Yemen Group Used Claude to Build Weapons Systems, Anthropic Reveals
- Garry Tan Runs YC at 400x His 2013 Output. His AGI Is a Folder of Markdown Files
- Anthropic Struggles to Resolve Mythos Suspension
- How To Build Superintelligence Inside Your Company
- How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot
- The White House Places New Restrictions on H1-Bs
“The Academy has raised $42 million from a16z and a group of individual investors, including Adam D'Angelo, Tobi Lütke, Tony Xu, Fidji Simo, Garry Tan, Joe Liemandt and Shyam Sankar.”
“a lot of the most AI appealed people and companies in the world still use Slack... if the harness is in there... then you have like this mega data moat”
Source→“if you are a system of record, you either will be preyed upon... Or you kind of have to be a harness”
Source→“you don't need to hire a thousand great engineers versus Google or Meta”
Source→“that's where things like River AI or Tinker start becoming really interesting”
Source→“the big ones, I mean, I think after query and data curve both really, really great”
Source→“Garry Tan says regulators should 'do nothing' about Chinese AI companies distilling U.S. frontier models.”
Source→“I would bet that this generally will cut against many years of experience in favor of people who have a lot of fluency with the tools”
Source→“You were in the very first batch of Y Combinator in 2005 with a location sharing company called Looped”
Source→“California tech billionaires and venture capitalists...organized private chats, PACs, counter-initiatives, and candidate recruitment efforts to fight a proposed 5% tax on billionaires' net worth, only to see the measure gather enough signatures for the November ballot.”
Source→“Auto research from Karpathy again... Slash goal now in Codex. Like they've incorporated it too.”
Source→“Every time Boris comes and speaks at YC... one of the things that really stands out is how obsessed he is with simplicity and with just like making the product as small as possible.”
Source→“Perplexity Computer is probably the best version of it. But it's still like, you know, pretty limited compared to what you could do with OpenClaw and Hermes Agent.”
Source→“The ability to run your own software, to change your own prompts, to test all of it, to have your own private repo that like you know is only yours. To be able to choose which model to use... to me that's sort of the white pill for AI.”
Source→“Hermes actually already has Skillify. They call it something. It's like it makes skills automatically.”
Source→“How do you build superintelligence inside a company? You do that on everything you do. And it's not more complicated than that. Like you literally just compose everything that you do and any given thing that any given person can do, you combine that in aggregate and in this particular process. And like you have a super organization.”
Source→“I'm sure you guys have heard Jack Dorsey talk about what he's doing with Block. He basically is trying to turn Block into a mini-AGI around helping people in the world make payments to one another.”
Source→“YC's Garry Tan has already published guidance on proper metrics, signaling the standards conversation is moving fast.”
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