Garry Tan

But I think about it a lot because is it a cult?

Is it like an ideology?

It could be a religion.

It seems productive.

Yeah.

That's what we're trying to make it.

How is it different than other VC offerings?

I mean, VC is a very interesting thing because to me, it feels like it's stuck in the 1970s or the 80s.

VC didn't exist really going back more than 50 years.

And then the legends of the space, they're sort of, I felt like they're bankers, you know, they're all dressed up and buttoned up.

You ever hear the story of like Fairchild Semiconductor?

I think they literally wrote a bunch of letters to a bunch of bankers they knew in New York.

And then one of the people who replied was Arthur Rock, who was also the guy who ended up funding Apple later.

And so there's a long lineage of that, but I think it's like really evolved from that.

I think today the best investors in the world are people who are actually former builders instead of bankers.

And I think that vibe matters a lot.

There's a lot more to the world than just the dollars and cents.

Like the dollars and cents come after you make something people want.

Yeah.

So I think if I had to describe like, well, you know, is YC just another VC?