Garry Tan
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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
I guess my first day coming back as CEO, the board met and it was Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston and Brian Chesky and Carolyn Levy.
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
That's sort of the board of YC and me.
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
And the number one directive I got was like, what does YC 3.0 look like?
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
And then YC 3.0, let's do zero-based accounting.
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
Like, let's figure out if we were everything that we do, would we choose to do it again today from zero?
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
And I think every organization probably needs, you know, especially at sort of a leadership change like that, it's worth doing.
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
You know, if we're going to change, we need to change as much as we can right now.
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
Not just rest on the laurels of what happened in the past.
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
How do you refound the company?
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
It's not like a fun mission for you.