Garry Tan
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1,293 appearances
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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 · Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" · 28 Jul 2026
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It sounds like in your journey, there were a few different things that stacked.
Maybe the first one was even that AGI was possible to be built and finding other people who believed that thing.
It didn't matter that lots of people didn't think it was possible.
It mattered that you found really, really smart people who did believe that.
One of the things that people in the room are probably thinking is like, well, I believe this thing, but I haven't found my people yet.
Is that delusion?
Is that actually maybe even a gate that you would propose people have?
It's like, well, you need to find five people who might believe that or even one, like a co-founder.
Maybe that's one of the explanations for why we like co-founders at YC so much.
It takes a long time to compound.
I guess I'm keying off what you just said, which is like, you know, some of the people you ended up starting, you know, all these different things with, you didn't necessarily know what that was for or that it would be useful in a, you know, sort of network setting at all.
Like you just collected cool, interesting people.
I think you do this.
I think Peter Thiel does this really, really well.
What would you say to a room full of people who are just starting out and like figuring out who their people are?
Just like,
a lot really goes a long way in terms of these things coming together later.
I mean, I think that's actually a really important message.
One of the things, one of the memes right now is I see it on X is live action role play.
That's like one of the things that people have been saying on X. I mean, I can't tell why they're doing it because
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