Garry Tan

Typically, would you say, is it more about the person than the idea?

I think it's more about the person, yeah.

What are they about?

You have to be about something.

You have to have a thing in you.

And I realized like, actually I can spot that in other people.

You just spend time with people and it's like, man, you got some sort of nuclear reactor in there.

Just don't lose containment.

Let's figure out how to use it for good.

That's right.

So if a founder gets accepted,

What happens next?

They move to San Francisco.

I feel like San Francisco itself is a trip.

It's so much more open.

The number one thing that people describe when they come from any other place in the world and they come to San Francisco is that they're not weird anymore.

If you came to do YC- They don't feel like outsiders.

Yeah, they're insiders.

Like suddenly you're surrounded by people who believe that they can actually poke the universe and have it pop out someplace else.

And there's very few places in the world where that really happens.