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

Um I would realize that actually if I stayed at initialized and didn't come back and uh heed the call of Paul and Jessica to write the ship at YC, uh

I would be out of a business.

I I you know, I at initialized would have been out of business if uh Y C itself was not going in the right direction.

And here we are.

Like I think that we're doing it and we're gonna keep doing it.

And the biggest thing that um

Yeah, it's it's just funny that founder mode was uh the meme that was born at the uh alumni uh conf top top alumni conference.

And you know, um Brian Chesky didn't even he wasn't even like scheduled to appear and I just kept texting him 'cause he would always come to the Y C batch and give his uh you know, it it's funny.

Uh for him he's like, Yeah, I'm gonna tell the um

the uh selling serial story and he's so generous with his time.

He does that every single time.

But um I remember seeing him extremely animated uh telling his not his zero to one story, but his like save the company pre-IPO story where he had to nobody believed in him, COVID was happening, you know, and then he just buckled up and he's like, look, I made a lot, you know, he

admits like he made a bunch of different mistakes that um

Yeah, the reason why at the top alumni event that he spoke at, that was such a like pivotal moment.

I think that uh we brought together about two hundred of all of our top founders.

Uh, you know, there are about sixty or seventy unicorns uh represented.

And I think that we unlocked, you know, easily ten to a hundred billion dollars in new market cap like that very night.

Because um there's just

Just keep it.

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