Garry Tan

Oh, yeah.

Oh, it's tons.

And then the first thing we have to do is try to get them on something that's more unique to them.

And do you give feedback?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

No, I mean, one of the top things that we started doing the last two or three years once I came back is we have to meet people one-on-one.

You know, a quarter of my team right now is in India, and they're in New Delhi.

these people are cracked man they're so smart they're like 22 year olds phd candidates and then the most interesting thing my partner ankit gupta just put in slack that i'm just like that's fascinating it's like they're just working on 2008 web 2.0 ideas right now they're like social networks and tutoring marketplaces which is very funny because in the history of yc i feel like

That's one of the most common ideas.

I think the founder of Dropbox famously in what year was it?

2006?

He was at MIT, and he was working on a tutoring business.

And he met Paul and Jessica.

And Paul and Jessica said, you're the right person to do a startup, but you should not work on tutoring, man.

And then he ended up coming up with Dropbox.

So it's very funny how same as it ever was.

People are still doing social networks and photo sharing apps and tutoring businesses, but they need to work on things that are

truly unique to them.

Do you get any really fringe ideas that are unlike everything else?