Garry Tan

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1,293 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 7 Aug

Garry Tan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

Well, the answer is because I can. matched

Because being at YC for me means I don't have to monetize my own infrastructure. matched

But because I can is also the answer to the wrong question. matched

The real question is why anyone should. matched

And the answer is that I believe tools of the powerful should be given away. matched

Every era has a private technology of leverage, a thing the powerful have and everyone else doesn't. matched

For a long time it was literacy. matched

Then it was capital. matched

Right now, today, it's this: the harness, the library, the workforce made of Markdown. matched

The people who have it are quietly operating at a different scale than the people who don't. matched

And the gap is widening every month. matched

And that's what this whole conference is about: to give you the power. matched

to be able to do it for yourself. matched

When something like that, that powerful, stays private, you get a priesthood. matched

When it gets given away, matched

You get a renaissance. matched

I know which one I want to live in. matched

Which means I get to do the thing that I actually believe in. matched

And I'll give it to you as a creed because it's the closest thing I have to one. matched

Say the things other people won't. matched

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