Garry Tan

So I could run a Linux box in my bedroom, and I did.

And I learned how to make websites and program them.

And that was super fun, honestly.

I mean, basically, Paul Graham did it the first time.

And then by the time I did it, it was like maybe 1995, 96.

And everyone was starting to do it.

Was it easy for you to get information in those days?

We still had the yellow pages.

My funny story is my first job, we were living in apartments and I looked around and I looked at my brother, who was three or four at the time, and I was like, man, I don't want us to grow up in an apartment.

The American dream is that we should live in a house.

So how do we do that?

And then I look down at my feet, and there's a stack of yellow pages.

My parents are kind of hoarders, so I don't know.

There's like a whole bunch of yellow pages.

I picked up one.

I flipped it to the internet section.

I learned how to make web pages.

The funny thing about the internet is on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog or a 12-year-old.

So I won all these web design awards as a 12 or 13-year-old.

And then by then, I said, well, that's a pretty good tagline.