Garry Tan

And when I was 18, my childhood was so difficult that I felt like

I was 14 in college.

My whole 20s were sort of this delayed adolescence, and I had to figure out who I was.

Yeah, it's funny, at YC, there's this vibe that YC only wants to fund the 18-year-old or 20-year-old sort of Patrick Collison types.

I just don't think that's true.

That's not true for me, anyway.

I started my company at 27.

I just wasn't ready.

I was a late bloomer, and I just wasn't fully developed.

My YC startup was called Posterous.

And it actually became a top 200 website.

You send an email to our email address and we would make a blog for you.

And it was the fastest, easiest way to get a photo off of your iPhone, which sounds crazy now, but basically- But you couldn't do it back then.

Yeah, you couldn't do that.

Yeah.

And what that space became was Instagram.

So everyone uses Instagram now.

So in a way, like in technology, there's a tournament happening all the time.

And the winner, it's sort of like Glengarry Glen Ross.

First place is you win.