Garry Tan

I love technology and engineering and science because I would just spend every weekend as a kid

reading things that were way, way above my pay grade.

Like I didn't understand half of it, but I felt like I could.

And it sort of brings us to today where the machines can help you learn.

Were you a good student in school?

Yeah.

I mean, I didn't realize this at the time.

Like my childhood was so rough that

I guess I viewed getting good grades and going to college and- Your way out.

Yeah, that was the light at the end of the tunnel.

That was always what I thought when I was a teenager.

I was suicidal.

I hated everything about, but when I was in my computer, I could go in my code cave and I had control.

Everything in my life outside of that was tumultuous and I just didn't know when I would catch a beating for no reason or whatever.

But when I was in front of my computer or even when I was in school studying algebra or calculus, it's like, oh, the world is so beautiful and well-arranged and I can understand it.

Yeah, order.

Yeah.

Yeah.

When you would be on your dad's computer, would you play games or would you build things?

I guess games were my first love.