Garry Tan

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

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 — 3 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 2.

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Now you might not need that person on day one.

You could just go to GPT-6 Astra.

You say, hey, look, this is what I'm trying to figure out.

And you're iterating with it.

You actually have a demo that's 10 times better than what you could have done without hiring that person out of that lab or that university.

You don't need to convince them.

You just actually get it farther along.

You can show it to an investor.

You can get money.

You can get there on $5 million instead of $50 million.

It's sort of like multiple stacking things that are happening.

You have intelligence on tap.

than any given founder who can identify a thing that people need in the world, suddenly you can say, you know what?

This is the path.

This is always what we've done at YC.

We're giving you half a million dollars.

What can you actually get done?

These days it's half a million dollars plus more than a million dollars in cloud credits, right?

So what's a million dollars in cloud credits if not maybe the equivalent of $10 million worth of R&D for whatever?

Yeah, I

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