Garry Tan
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I think you would really dig him.
He wrote a book called Hackers and Painters, which is the perfect polymath book.
But at the same time, I saw him recently.
He was saying that he built one of the best classical art collections in all of England.
Like he literally wrote the book on Lisp.
Lisp is one of the most respected sort of hardcore programming language from the 70s.
I would say that Lisp is sort of for programming languages what CBGBs was back in the day.
I mean, it's just anyone who's legit.
If you know how to program and care about the code, you know Lisp.
And he wrote many books on Lisp, literally called On Lisp.
And so we went from there to a business where he said, how do I solve the money problem?
He was a PhD at Harvard in computer science.