Garry Tan
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I think that he's taking a lot of shit right now.
And I really feel for him and his family.
On the other hand, he doesn't deserve what he's getting right now.
Was it hard to go from a founder to doing something like Running YC?
Do you miss the day-to-day of your thing?
I get to have my cake and eat it too at this point.
Because you're open sourcing things.
And then honestly, it's turning into the next thing that will bring people in.
Like I found Paul Graham and YC because of Paul Graham's essays.
And Paul Graham's essays are still about a third of all of the applications that come in.
I mean, throughout his life starting, I think, in the late 80s or early 90s.
Tell me about do things that don't scale.
I think a lot of the things that the advice that you hear that we, I mean, some of it is like we give away all the advice for free.
That's been a long debated thing inside of YC.