Garry Tan
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626 appearances
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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
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But I mean the reason why hard tech at YC can happen is like, I mean, kind of even going back to what we were talking about earlier.
Like it's not necessarily just about, you know, SAS, did you grow 10% week on week?
Like, did you hit 100K ARR?
Like that's, you know, sort of weak like spreadsheet thinking.
And uh the hard tech companies that do super well, they show up with like, you know, if
If you had a super crack team that was the team to do this, what would they be able to get done in 10 weeks?
And sometimes it's a prototype, sometimes it's a demo.
Like uh the other thing is, I have more than a billion dollars a year in capital that's basically just like hard allocated to YC companies, uh, not from us, from like you know, hundreds of VCs who now uh are all coming back to demo data.
Not from us.
Hundreds of easy.
in droves and uh you know name me another place that has that actually like and they're not necessarily just like doing the plug and chug like you know they are actually meeting the founders they're actually making up their own minds they are um you know and they're funding hard tech you know I think we're about 90% AI and uh you know the age of intelligence is here dude like the machine
or you're able to do all knowledge work.
Like that's you know insane.
And then simultaneous to that, like I'm really excited about our hard tech stuff because that's
I mean that's that's the built world.
Like how do we actually create prosperity and abundance for one another and uh you know
God knows in America we need it, you know, like we don't even have we can't even make screws for ourselves.
It's nuts, right?
You know, I just saw Bology in uh December in Singapore and he like super blackpilled me on you know, American manufacturing, we need, you know, a thousand X what we have right now.
And uh, you know, it's not
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