Garry Tan

And then afterwards, he said, well, I need to make my way in this world.

And I'm not going to get there by painting.

But I do know how to program.

So how do I turn programming, which is

its own craft and art into commerce.

When was that?

I guess it was early to mid-1990s.

He actually was one of the people who created the first web application.

The web was new, but then he realized, well, I don't have to just make a static HTML page, I could just hook it up to a program.

Today, you think about the web or the Internet or a computer program.

It's synonymous with I open my browser and I'm going to go to this thing.

But he was the first person to actually hook that up.

Yeah.

That's amazing.

And it was to make what ended up becoming Yahoo Stores.

So, you know, helping other people build businesses and online businesses.

I didn't have the words of, I need to solve the money problem until I read it in his essays.

And I found his essays on the internet.

Now all my friends are sort of in that world.

People sort of talk about YC as a little bit of a cult, I guess.