Garry Tan

We were rivals.

Honestly, sometimes he was kind of a jerk to me, but I realized that was just a part of the thing.

That was part of the grand plan and the game, you know?

He called it.

I remember working for him in 2014 before I had decided to leave.

And I said, every meeting he'd come back and he'd be talking about AGI.

Like he met Elon, he met Larry and Sergey, and the world unfolded to him in a way, like when he became president of YC.

I didn't understand it at the time.

I'm like, hey, Sam, we're just trying to like fund some startups over here.

Like, that's cool, but can we talk about this B2B SaaS thing?

And then I hate to say it, but I look at the 2014 version of myself and it's like, shoot, man, you were the Salieri.

And Sam was the Mozart.

He was there and he heard it and he saw it.

And he said, that's the future.

And then we're going to go get it.

I have to give it to him.

He did it.

And it was like one of the fundamental lessons for me in my life, I think.

I'm trying to like embrace.

There was something that blocked me, closed me off to what was clearly going to happen.