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 · Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, one of the things I'm curious about is like, are there sort of applications of AI that you're seeing among your friends or internal, the meta that you can talk about that are, you know, there's sort of obvious near term, maybe people haven't figured out yet.

I mean, give us some alpha.

So mechanically speaking, I mean, markdown files, cron jobs, and then basically pointing the agent at enough data so that it can figure something out that maybe isn't in distribution.

So it's not magic.

Some people put a lot of magic.

There's some LinkedIn threads out there about some magic stuff.

So I'd like to end on this, which is you get a telegram to send to the 18-year-old version of yourself.

What do you say to that person right now, given all, I mean, thank you for coming back and sharing your wisdom with this audience.

What would you send in a message in a bottle to the 18-year-old version of yourself right now?

Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

Sam, thanks for joining us.

This is something.

Yeah, I mean, startups are a lot bigger now than they've ever been.

I mean, they're bigger than they've ever been because of the vision that you had for AGI, which is Nye.

So I wanted to start with a time and place, which is you were in the very first batch of Y Combinator in 2005 with a location sharing company called Lubed.

What do you remember about that?

And what was your best PG Paul Graham story?

But it also takes someone who actually, I mean, you're sort of famously par excellence, an agentic person, like even before we thought about agents, period.

I mean, you just, I remember Paul wrote, I mean, it's making the rounds on X Today even that Paul wrote in the late 2000s that you would be, you were one of the top five entrepreneurs he'd ever met.

Now, I guess later you came on to become president of YC and you sort of brought exactly the same energy to a great many YC founders over the years.

Did you have anything like did anything jump out at you from that time around, you know, taking this raw energy of someone really, really smart and maybe a little undirected and then driving them more towards agency?

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