Garry Tan

What were the games then?

Oh my gosh.

Like Spy Hunter on the Atari, I guess.

But I really loved adventure games like...

monkey island games or the indiana jones games the old sierra adventure games were really fun because i loved i didn't want just like the arcade i wanted a story like i loved sort of this idea that you could inhabit another person's life today what people play that i love is like you know red dead redemption 2 for instance one of the best games do you still play games yeah i love game i love those types of games

Because like the narrative story and you can inhabit someone else's world and reality, back then I viewed it as like a nice reprieve.

What is Y Combinator?

Y Combinator is at this point an institution where you apply on the internet and you don't have to know anyone or anything.

and you fill out 12 questions, record a one-minute video, and we have 16 partners who read those and watch the video and try to figure out who are the people who are going to build all of the technology for the next 20 years.

How many people try to sign up?

Yeah, it's 80,000 applications a year for about 800 spots per year.

We invite you to come to San Francisco.

We'll meet you for 10 minutes.

It's usually two partners in there.

10 minutes goes really fast.

It's really, we just want to know what are you doing and why is it going to be you who does it?

What are the backgrounds of the two partners in the room?

Usually, I mean, every partner at YC actually went through the program themselves and created a startup.

And in a lot of ways, they made something people want.

So we went and did it.