Garry Tan

It's wild.

I mean, it just happens all the time.

It must be a great feeling.

I mean, there's no feeling like it to sit down with someone and they're like, I have this vision.

I have a belief in how the world should work.

And then you look down and it happens.

Did you change anything when you took over?

The biggest change was that I turned it back into not a VC but actually focused on the initial early startup founder program.

So when I came in, YC had sort of gone from as if Google became Alphabet.

When you do a Googled alphabet moment, it's like, oh, yeah, we're doing like eight different things.

And we have eight different CEOs all working on different things.

And you had something that was very successful that was the engine of it.

And I just had to come back and say, we're actually going to focus on the one thing that made YC great.

And that's going to be the engine.

And special and that no one else is doing, really.

There are other VCs.

There are people who can do your series A or B. And you just got to focus.

Focus is saying no.

That was hard.

How do you see it evolving over time?