Garry Tan

I built a thing that holds Bitcoin, but how do you actually get it in there?

And then he went and did that, and it became Coinbase.

Amazing.

So these things always evolve.

They always change.

And really great founders seem to be able to just ask the first principles questions and then go after that thing.

Walk me through the 13-week program.

Oh, yeah.

We're in week two right now of the spring batch.

Honestly, most of the first 10 weeks is just building.

So you come in and this is fresh in my head.

We just went through the basics and it's funny how much you have to do the basics, but we have a bunch of really experienced, successful former founders who are coming back and doing YC again, alums.

And it's funny to watch them have to go back to beginner mind.

So these are people who are going through the program a second time?

Yeah, totally.

So some of our best founders like Parker Conrad of Rippling came back through a second time.

And increasingly, alums are coming back and doing YC again.

So you think they're doing it for a nostalgic reason or because they get something specifically by doing it?

I mean, I think...

the YC batch done right is a little bit more like a revival or an experience than an educational product or something like that.