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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 9 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 4.

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

Assume I'm flattering myself, which is always a live possibility. matched

It's still 8x at the absolute floor and 10 times that in the middle of the range. matched

The number is large no matter how you torture it. matched

Now this is just code and if you're at the beginning of your career, you're in luck. matched

This applies to design. matched

This applies to product management. matched

This applies to growth. matched

This applies to every part of what you might want to do. matched

The multiplier for coding is not just for coding. matched

It's for every piece of knowledge work. matched

And it's not just me. matched

At YC, we get to watch this at portfolio scale. matched

A year and a half ago in the Winter 25 batch, a quarter of the companies had code bases that were 95% AI generated. matched

Those companies use AI agents for everything now, not just code. matched

And that batch is on track to becoming one of the fastest growing, most profitable batches in the history of YC. matched

Now I know what a correlation is, so let me say it carefully. matched

I cannot prove that the AI generated code and everything else caused the growth, but what I can tell you is that the fastest growing founders we fund are not treating AI as autocomplete. matched

They are treating it. matched

as a workforce. matched

There are two X people and there are 100 X people who are using matched

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