Garry Tan

It's like, just get yourself out of your head.

Change your location, change the people you're with, change the way you think about things.

And that's my only explanation.

Like I would try to precede people and get them to speed up, to startup speed, and it would never work.

And then finally I...

get frustrated and say, okay, it's time for you to do YC.

And if they were good enough to get into YC, then they would speed up and suddenly magically they would turn around and a year or two later, they'd making $20 million a year in revenue or something.

How did it work out for you to get invited back to run YC?

Oh man, that was an intense experience because I was good to go.

I had billions of dollars under management and I had built the firm myself.

But the founder of YC, Paul Graham, asked me to come back.

Do you know why he picked you?

Oh, here's a funny story.

The story of Paul and Jessica is fascinating because PG, you would dig him so much.

He's just connected to the source, man.

Everything about YC that he designed has that quality about it.

It's thoughtful and not ostentatious and concise and spare and...

I guess that's what brought me back.

And then I think YC itself way exceeded his expectation for it.

I think he's a billionaire many times over from starting YC.