Garry Tan

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626 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 10 Sep

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TBPN · Garry Tan, Augustus Doricko, Nichole Wischoff, Billy Thalheimer, Mamma Mia! · 6 Mar 2025 podcast

And you know, these are things that everyone uses now.

Of course, man.

I mean, you know, some of it is like, I'm trying to do founder mode, but you know, shout out to the original GOAT, Paul Graham, like and Jessica Livingston and, you know, Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell, you know, like I'm I'm try I it turns out, you know, you don't have to be the founder to try to run the founder mode playbook.

And uh Brian Chesky himself is on my board.

And when I came back uh to YC, the first thing he said was, All right.

Well, if you were the founder, uh, what's zero-based accounting?

Like, what are you gonna do?

And uh, you know, there are shades of that in what Elon's doing with the US government, like.

You know, I think uh I just stepped in it by bringing that up, but hey, like, you know what?

This is actually how uh you should be a leader.

Like you actually have to think about things uh from first principles from zero-based accounting.

Like if knowing what we know now, would we do that thing that we're doing?

And you know, the enemy of every bureaucracy is uh, you know, thinking.

do you know, doing the right thing.

Yep.

So uh I think YC was always the like center, the sort of like tree of prosperity.

Uh, you know, I I left and spent seven years in my seven years in the wilderness, uh running initialized.

And uh I, you know, feel I built an amazing team.

Those guys are doing awesome.

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