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President & CEO @ycombinator —Founder @Initialized —PM/designer/engineer who helps founders—YouTuber—San Francisco Democrat accelerating the boom loop—e/acc

San Francisco, CA

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Joined January 2008

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@garrytan

Garry Tan

9 months

Tech gave me everything I have Its capacity to lift people into abundance is incredible and there is nothing like it We must make that into prosperity for everyone

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Bloomberg Technology

9 months

"I realized tech is this thing that can bring people out of whatever situation they're in and often into prosperity. And that's what I want for everyone." @ycombinator ’s @garrytan tells @emilychangtv how tech changed his family's life. Watch here:

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@garrytan

Garry Tan

3 years

My best career advice: At every job you should either learn or earn. Either is fine. Both is best. But if it's neither, quit.

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George Orwell, 1984: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.…

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Walter Kirn

1 year

Writers may wish to rethink their ambitions. If their work should prove lastng, it may end up being tortured for all eternity This is not mere "sensitivity" editing, by the way. This is blunt, agenda-driven rewriting. It is idea injection. And it will be continual once it starts

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2 years

Next year, I'll be going back to Y Combinator as President and CEO. It's a one in ten billion lifetimes kind of opportunity— YC gave me my start, and I'm deeply grateful to the community.

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3 years

I funded Coinbase in 2012. 6000x on my best startup investment yet.

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1 year

In 2008 I showed up to Y Combinator Startup School to take photos of speakers and learn how to start a startup. I was an engineer and designer and had never started a company before.

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Garry Tan

7 months

I refuse to appear at Web Summit and am canceling my appearance. I condemn Hamas and pray for peace for the Israeli and Palestinian people.

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Josh Kopelman

7 months

Hard to take this statement at face value -- given all the tweets @paddycosgrave has been liking over the last few days. I saved several of them on the attached google doc (so we have a record when the @WebSummit PR team asks him to delete them).

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Garry Tan

8 months

I just got forwarded the craziest email from SF Parking Enforcement A vehicle used in narcotics trafficking with over $2600 worth of tickets has been parked for weeks across from the Marina Safeway. A citizen asked to get it removed and this was the response. 🤯

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2 years

WE DID IT

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San Francisco Chronicle

2 years

BREAKING: San Francisco removes Chesa Boudin in historic recall. See live election results, including vote breakdown by district:

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18 days

This was such a poorly done video I think I am even more supportive of the TikTok ban than I was before.

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TikTok Policy

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Our CEO Shou Chew's response to the TikTok ban:

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Excellent community note

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1 year

It’s time for San Francisco to be radically pro-small-business instead of whatever virtue signaling nonsense it is right now

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John Wolthuis

1 year

Local bakery is annoyed

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3 years

RIP Tony Hsieh “Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).”

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Garry Tan

6 months

Legalize skilled immigration

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Alec Stapp

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Immigration is America's superpower. Leaders from India: CEO of Google 🇮🇳 CEO of Microsoft 🇮🇳 CEO of Starbucks 🇮🇳 CEO of YouTube 🇮🇳 CEO of Adobe 🇮🇳 CEO of World Bank 🇮🇳 CEO of IBM 🇮🇳 CEO of Albertsons 🇮🇳 CEO of NetApp 🇮🇳 CEO of Novartis 🇮🇳 Staple green cards to diplomas.

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7 months

Thiel on America: “Companies started since 1990 worth $100B+. 11 are in the US, 6 in China. Zero everywhere else.” 🤯

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Garry Tan

7 months

There is something deeply wrong with Google’s abuse, trust and safety teams

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Max Meyer

7 months

Well, that didn't take long. After less than 12 hours, Google has taken down the site with public information about which student groups endorse Hamas terrorism. Only @X allows the truth!

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5 months

I wish this were The Onion

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Renu Mukherjee

@RenuMukherjee1

5 months

Happy Sunday! I have a piece out in @NRO today about colleges’ new scheme to get around SCOTUS’ strike-down of race-based admissions: Redefine the concept of “merit” to include race. Who’s behind this? One of the nation’s top education consulting firms.

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10 months

The President of Stanford had to resign over doctored data Stanford professor Jo Boaler should resign next. Her doctored data removed Algebra from SF public middle schools and will soon do so all over CA Her impact on setting back access to advanced math is devastating to kids

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Garry Tan

5 years

It is shocking how often startups fail because of the personality flaws and deep seated childhood traumas of their founders and execs. Get therapy. Get exec coaching. Do inner work. It will save you if you let it. You’ll solve problems now and prevent problems in the future.

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2 years

Been thinking about this meme all week Are you the kind of person who just rolls up your sleeves and plugs the hole? Our world needs a whole lot more of that

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Garry Tan

5 months

"One solution: Intifada revolution." This is a call for genocide, full stop. They're shouting on the streets what they're going to do now: the final solution. Not in America, not on our watch.

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Bari Weiss

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At Harvard, "fatphobia" constitutes violence. But "globalize the intifada" requires context. WATCH:

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3 years

Can’t get this stat out of my head today A million seconds is 11.5 days. A billion seconds is 31.7 years.

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2 months

Vote! The next 24 hours is going to determine the future of San Francisco. Vote the doom loopers out and the boom loopers in! Vote for the @SFDemsForChange slate.

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6 years

Most gangster thing I have heard in a long time: Chow Yun-fat lives on just $100 a month, will leave entire $714 million fortune to charity Maximum gangster. 💪

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Garry Tan

1 year

Today I am the new President & CEO of Y Combinator, an organization that is a true magnet for smart ambitious high integrity people who believe technology can solve the problems facing humanity. And those that believe are those that do. Looking forward to an epic 2023. 🙏

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5 months

You understand why I donated $50K this year just to get this guy out of office right?

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New York Post

5 months

San Francisco Democrat says homelessness crisis in his district is ‘absolutely the result of capitalism’

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5 years

Colleges are buying SAT takers names, marketing to low scorers, all to boost rejections and juice their already low acceptance rates to get higher US News rankings Incentives drive unintended consequences: all the world’s not a stage, but a game

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For Sale: SAT-Takers’ Names. Colleges Buy Student Data and Boost Exclusivity

For 47 cents, the College Board will sell an individual’s information, allowing schools to market themselves more broadly. This encourages an increase in applications, which can lead to higher...

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2 years

I'm an Asian-American Dem who has only done donations to Dems. I am the child of working class immigrants who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. They're taking away our math and our way up to study STEM. This is why I was a top donor to the recall. They want to erase me.

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Garry Tan

5 months

The United States is not building enough. We're spending too much time fighting about inane things, banning math, virtue signaling, having low expectations, pouring sugar on the floor, focused on identity instead of outcomes. Instead, we need to accelerate.

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Linus ●ᴗ● Ekenstam

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The western mind can’t comprehend this. China is leading. Look. It’s simple. West was to busy with wars for the past 30 years, and China was busy building. If you do one thing in 2024, visit China. 🎥 @balajis More videos below ⬇️

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2 years

San Francisco is beautiful and must be saved. It is worth it. It’s my home.

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9 months

If you refuse to solve smaller problems, the chance of you solving big problems goes to zero.

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2 years

My parents didn’t have money for braces growing up

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8 months

MacKenzie Scott just gave $20M to a nonprofit grift run by one of the worst hard left trolls on Twitter, and Dean Preston's right hand. Not doing research on nonprofits means that people who hurt San Francisco get a huge payday. You're right, billionaires are ruining SF.

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8 months

Degrowth is a death cult

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5 years

Masayoshi Son invented the first electronic dictionary, sold it for $1.7M to Sharp, and used that capital to start SoftBank. Can’t watch this without being in awe of pure innovation Full interview:

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Garry Tan

3 years

This was written by a paralyzed man using a brain computer interface. Despite not moving his hands he thinks about writing and this is what comes up. 18 words per minute BCI metaverse is gonna be insane guys

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8 months

Idea: LLMs for detecting when bureaucrats loot the treasury of the people they are sworn to serve

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JD Ross

8 months

Just got some quotes: 2 x 20'x10,000' sections of Stainless steel mesh netting: $1,600,000 360 x 20' metal struts: $50,000 Support brackets: $50,000 100 gallons of orange paint: $5,000 Labor: $398,000,000

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Garry Tan

3 years

Growing up the child of immigrants, sometimes food insecure, the child of an alcoholic, this was me I paid $8 for the 10 real SATs and did 5 tests back to back. Standardized tests. Advanced math. I learned to code. A massive equalizer. Now the path is murky, and getting darker

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Garry Tan

9 months

It is not humane to allow people to do drugs on the street until they die Clear the open air drug encampments and fund shelter & recovery, not unlimited nonprofit grift

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Tony Winnicker

9 months

Gov. Gavin Newsom calls ban on S.F. homeless sweeps ‘preposterous’ and ‘inhumane’

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Garry Tan

2 years

This week Mark Cuban launched an online pharmacy that offers >100 generic drugs at a far more affordable and transparent price. Leukemia treatment imatinib retails for $9,657 a month— Mark Cuban offers it at $47 per month. A true healthcare upstart powered by @truepill_rx 🚀

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Mark Cuban

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Mark Cuban's drug company launches pharmacy, promising striking savings on generic drugs

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Garry Tan

6 months

Two of the worst bureaucrats in SF are in Japan on a taxpayer funded junket to learn about how Japan teaches math Neither of them have anything to do with math SF has not taught middle schoolers Algebra for almost a decade: a corrupt and morally bankrupt policy

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7 months

🇮🇱 Pray for Israel

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5 months

Mark Rober’s newest glitterbomb video tracked a stolen laptop to the exact same location in SF that I tracked my laptop to 10 years ago when it was stolen out of my Honda Accord Everyone knows there is a massive fencing operation here yet it operates for more than a decade 👀

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3 months

Hello from Apple Vision Pro. I was surprised at how negative the reviews were of this. This is by far the most awesome VR experience I have ever had. The visual clarity is so good for screens, it feels retina-level, and I feel like the amount of information you can absorb is…

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5 years

Steve Jobs in 1990: Interpersonal networked computing (through great software and UX) will give rise to decentralized orgs that allow people at every level work together remotely Crazy how Jobs could see clearly 30 yrs into the future!

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Garry Tan

10 months

“You won’t appreciate the wide open time to think and explore that you had in your 20s until you completely are scheduled within an inch of your life in your 40s.” Message in a bottle I wish I could send to myself

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10 months

This video is pretty crazy. ACLU “investigator” sits and watches to make sure encampments in SF cannot be cleared by city staff and open air drug scenes cannot be stopped As a former ACLU donor I never donated to assure people could do drugs until they die on the streets of SF

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jj smith

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I met up with the ACLU guy and had a interesting conversation with him first, he assumed I worked for the city. PART 1

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Garry Tan

3 months

Only 8.5% of SF voters have submitted ballots. Your vote will change this city! SF DCCC candidates are important as are elections for judges and propositions for public safety & Algebra. Use the @GrowSF voter guide and share it. Tell your friends.

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GrowSF Voter Guide for the March 5, 2024 Primary Election

GrowSF analyzed the candidates and measures on the March 5, 2024 ballot in San Francisco. Read our well-researched and unbiased analysis in our voter guide.

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Garry Tan

8 months

If people think I am combative, so be it. Growing up, Asian-Americans often have to overcome a multi-generational cultural fear of standing out and standing up. That fear was real for me, and I'm glad I conquered it. If you stand for nothing, what will you fall for?

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Garry Tan

9 months

These car robbery crews are armed and known to open fire on people who intervene. If you arrested and convicted about 100 known repeat offenders this problem would go away. But between the police commission and the judges, the criminal justice system has failed the people.

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Alex Cohen 🤠

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This is the bravest resident in San Francisco

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Garry Tan

1 year

Regulators need to step in to do a *backstop* of depositors (not a bailout of a bank) 40,000 SVB depositor small businesses 30% will fail to make payroll in the next 30 days Estimate 10 employees each 120,000 jobs on the line Years of US innovation on the line

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Working on real projects, side projects, open source, and just making things for fun is the antidote to this A lot of people with CS degrees can't actually build anything But the world will unfold for you if you not only prove you can build, but that you build for fun

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lachlan

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the CS students do not seem to be okay

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6 months

LOL

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Dripped Out Technology Brothers

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Garry Tan (CEO of Y Combinator) volunteering as a photographer at Y Combinator's startup school in 2008 to get his foot in the door

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5 years

Peter Thiel grilling Eric Schmidt (2012) 🏭 Google isn’t a tech co anymore 🏦 It’s a tech holding co with $50B in cash and no ideas 🚀 Accelerating tech world + 0% interest = tech yields large multiples 🛍 $AMZN the only megatech giant reinvesting Today? $GOOG has >$115B cash

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1 year

The real victims of the SVB fallout are the depositors: startups (10 to 100 employees) who cannot make payroll, and will have to shut down or furlough *next week* If these startups wait weeks/months for their deposits, we have destroyed a generation of US startups, *at random*

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. @GarryTan CEO of @ycombinator calling the SVB fallout an "extinction level event for startups" "These depositors will not survive weeks or months without some sort of plan from the govt." $SVIB #SiliconValleyBank #startups

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2 years

The wrong partner on your board can literally make a billion dollars in value evaporate. It is not the sole reason behind every startup failure but it is the true story a surprising percentage of the time.

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7 months

It can be overcome. It requires that iron in you.

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LinaHua

7 months

Being an Asian male in the US is tough. You get zero Tinder matches. You get randomly beaten up or shot. Media portrays you as a nerdy loser or a stereotypical Kung-Fu guy. And you grind like an animal in school but still get rejected by top unis because they think your haircut…

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4 months

The key is to keep doing the work without blowing yourself up Compounding takes care of the rest

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1 year

"The only real failure in life is the failure to try." - Unknown

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5 years

Good design is not picking colors and making it pretty Good design is removing steps, understanding motivations, making it clearer, more navigable, faster, easier... it is how it works not how it looks. Too many products (even at the largest firms in tech) forget this.

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You can grind really hard and sacrifice your health, relationships and body for a few years before the wheels fall off. Sooner or later you have to go into sustainable marathon mode, otherwise you’ll never make it to the ten years it takes to be an overnight success.

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1 year

The most important thing the FDIC and the US Government can do right now is *make the receivership as short as possible* There are thousands of US startups that banked at SVB, often as their *sole bank*. $250K per account is not going to last long. From the FDIC website:

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4 years

Why is every startup a 10 year overnight success? 80% of new businesses fail in the first 5 years. Another 80% fail in the next 5 years. If you can last 10 years your business is in the top 4% of cos that are still kicking. If you start, be ready to commit for 10 years.

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3 years

There are many Bored Apes but this one is mine #BAYC

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10 months

$500 rent in SF would create a vibrant city Dean Preston and his NIMBY friends systematically block housing, making already rich homeowners more wealthy while displacing middle/low income residents, and excluding immigrants Vote him out

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To young future founders starting out: Mentorship touted by big tech recruiters is a scam to make you enslaved If you want to make a successful startup, the only real mentor is the customer

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1 year

The hard left in SF is sad and weird

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6 months

I threw a party at my house, and it was full of people earnestly trying to fix SF. The parties will continue until SF is a shining beacon of competence in the world. And then the real party begins.

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Josh Koehn

6 months

NEW: Garry Tan hosted an election party in the Mission last week, but this wasn’t an average celebration. According to several people who attended, a shift is underway in how local political organizations coordinate—and they could spend $15M in 2024.

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5 years

This is dark but amazing: a very self aware interview with @ConanOBrien FWIW he has always been funnier than every other late night show host in my book so I am glad he is free to experiment and make more awesome funny things. Straitjacket off.

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5 years

Long Term Stock Exchange is now approved by the SEC! 🦄 Let startups go public earlier 🙅🏻‍♂️ Prevent short-term corporate raiders from strip-mining small-to-mid-cap IPOs 👼🏻 Let the public participate in tech gains 🤲🏻 Add transparency/liquidity to startups

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10 months

The fix is: To make all people smarter To make all people richer To make all people healthier The fix is not: To make everyone equally dumb To make everyone equally poor To make everyone equally unwell

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8 months

As if on cue, my car got bipped this morning

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6 months

NYT just going with straight ad hominem with no facts on the front page these days Putting the “capitalists” in the crosshairs with the tuxedo photos is some high class real propaganda

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1 year

Is it weird the hard left hates me, a moderate Democrat, more than people who are actually hard right?

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6 months

My advice to engineers starting out: Find an important open source project on the way up and fix a bunch of issues and then go cold email a bunch of startups you know use that open source project. Langchain or Chroma are a couple to start with

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1 year

You can tell a startup idea is good when the first thing you ask is “How did this not exist already?”

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11 months

Just overheard a college-age job candidate regurgitating de-growth points about how neoliberalism is ruining the Earth in a job interview YIKES If young people don't believe a better world is possible through innovation and business, society is screwed.

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Garry Tan

11 months

Nearly 40,000 foreign-born graduates of U.S. universities were recruited to Canada from 2017 to 2021. The USA is forcing some of the smartest people leave. The likelihood of getting an H1B went down from 1 in 4 to now 1 in 7 due to completely arbitrary caps set long ago.

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John W Lettieri

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This is an absolutely infuriating look at America’s failure to design an immigration system that prioritizes ambitious, skilled, and educated people who could make enormous contributions to our society. Truly a must-read.

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5 years

50 of 91 unicorns in the USA have immigrant founders who have created more than $248B in market value America has more immigrants than any other country. It’s no wonder so much innovation happens here. Immigrants, we get the job done 💪 Full video:

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4 years

When choosing a startup idea, you must be able to check either of these boxes [ ] Truly novel (nobody else has tried) [ ] 10X better product The absolute best check both. 99% of startups check neither. A good pitch is sometimes a strong story explaining how to get the 1st ☑️

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Garry Tan

8 months

Warning to investors: there are consequences to this kind of behavior. I will personally make sure of it.

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Danny Alberson

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I recently met with a VC firm twice, showed a product demo, and answered countless questions about our strategy. Only to find out from someone else they were already invested in a direct competitor.

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5 years

Bad things for kids: 2018—Fortnite 1907— dimestore novels 1800’s— chess (yes literally people said the same thing about chess)

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Pessimists Archive

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Before screen time 📱 It was paper time 📖

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Chat is overrated as a user experience. Good visualization, information hierarchy, copy, call to actions is underrated as a user experience. Multiply all of these effects by 10X when you have the power of an LLM involved. Start with great UX, not a chatbot.

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Garry Tan

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Legalize skilled immigration

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Aaron Levie

4 months

This chart should make you go insane. This is the number of high skilled workers that want to work here. There is a cap at 85,000 slots that will be filled. We are actively shooting our future selves in the foot.

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A founder sent me this: There are extremists making things feel unsafe for Palestinians at Harvard Beware extreme ideology and taking things too far. I am so sorry to hear about this.

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Garry Tan

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Being in favor of merit, personalized education, gifted & talented, advanced math, and being a staunch supporter of strong public schools is not "far right" Community notes are an equalizing force for the worst excesses of hard left ideology

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Garry Tan

2 years

People are legit arguing against AP classes on this hellsite

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Garry Tan

6 months

Is there a good Kindle to LLM integration yet? I want to embed all the books I bought into a vector DB and ask questions about every book and I want to be able to cross reference topics too.

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Garry Tan

4 years

Favorite @Casey proverb

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Garry Tan

2 months

Cannot believe how decelerationist Wired is in 2024 Should rename to Tired

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@garrytan

Garry Tan

14 days

How do you say you hate Asian Americans without saying it?

@OakSyder

OakSyder🇺🇦

14 days

The Chronicle calls this profound lack of diversity a “blemish”.

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Garry Tan

8 months

Do you understand now why I donated $50,000 to ? Please join me Elections have consequences and Nov 2024 will be the end of Dean Preston’s terrible political career

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Dump Dean Preston

30 Reasons to Dump Dean Preston. Together, we can defeat him in 2024.

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Garry Tan

5 years

Being born in the late 20th century and being interested in computers and capable of programming them is basically like winning the lottery.

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Garry Tan

5 months

Don’t try to network Solve problems that matter and you will be in the right rooms

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claire vo 🖤

5 months

High performers are almost always well networked internally. Not through relationship building (tho they do that, too), but through being at the center of important problems for the business.

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I love San Francisco

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Garry Tan

6 years

Don’t invest in any altcoin that has: no real use case, infrequent GitHub commits, nonsense in their website/whitepaper, no community, no dev team, devs/founders who are hostile/insulting. That weeds out most of them. The rest you can buy some amount you are willing to lose. 👌

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Garry Tan

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In 2021 the city spent $1.1B on homelessness, up 500% since 2016. The result? Homelessness increased 64% Where does all this money go? Much of it is permanent housing, where people are paid to do drugs until they die (no or minimal detox and treatment offered or required)

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Jared Klickstein

@JaredKlickstein

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My new piece for the @nypost about the radical transformation of Harm Reduction, the Homeless Industrial Complex, and Gavin Newsom calling in the national guard to SF:

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Garry Tan

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"An est. 4.5% of the startups that have gone through Y Combinator since 2010 have become billion-dollar companies. Between 2010 and 2015 [the rate] was even higher, at approximately 5.4% of all startups. 2/3 of total value has come from its unicorns."

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Y Combinator leads among accelerators in unicorn-creation rate | PitchBook - PitchBook

Y Combinator made its name by backing companies such as Airbnb and Reddit early on, and it has ridden that wave to become the accelerator of choice for founders.

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Garry Tan

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Founders— when things are great, really celebrate that. Share that with your team and savor it. When things are falling apart, the key is to take action, don’t be paralyzed, and really focus on self care: sleep, food, exercise, then back to work. This too shall pass.

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