Garry Tan

“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.”

“Garry mentioned this point, which is tokens are expensive.”

“Hermes actually already has Skillify. They call it something. It's like it makes skills automatically.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Auto research from Karpathy again... Slash goal now in Codex. Like they've incorporated it too.”

“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.”

“Garry”

“YC's Garry Tan has already published guidance on proper metrics, signaling the standards conversation is moving fast.”

“Participants: Demis Hassabis, Garry Tan, YC Announcer”