Garry Tan

And then we're back trying to help the next generation go do that.

Tell me about your experience of doing it.

What do you remember from your 10 minutes?

Oh man, I remember sitting down with the founder of YC, Paul Graham, and his other co-founders.

They basically wanted to see the demo.

And so my startup took a photo on an iPhone and emailed it, and then you got a blog.

And so that was very easy to demo.

And then I think they got it immediately.

So once someone understands what something is and why people would use it, that sort of answers the big question.

On the first day of YC, you get a t-shirt that says, make something people want.

And if you look at the 10 minutes, that's all we really care about.

It's like, is this person going to make something?

And the craziest thing is like that's easier than ever now.

Like everyone can make something.

And then the second part has become much harder, much more important, much more difficult to get right, but much more important to get right.

It's something people want.

Was Paul Graham the founder of YC?

Yeah, he was the founder.

Tell me about him.

Oh, he was sort of this really brilliant polymath.