Person · appeared on 6 episodes
Investor and president and CEO of Y Combinator, the startup accelerator; co-founder of venture firm Initialized Capital and of Posterous, and an early Palantir employee.
Y Combinator Startup Podcast · 30 Oct · host
Y Combinator Startup Podcast · 18 Sept · host
Y Combinator Startup Podcast · 12 Sept · host
Y Combinator Startup Podcast · 6 Aug · guest
Y Combinator Startup Podcast · 5 Aug · cohost
Uncapped with Jack Altman · 3 Mar · guest
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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· 15 Oct
Rory O'Driscoll cites a Gary Tan comment that pro rata rights made the IRR of one of Tan's funds.Y Combinator Startup Podcast· 18 Sept
Garry Tan says opening up GPT-6 today was pretty wild, with agents palpably smarter.Y Combinator Startup Podcast· 12 Sept
Garry Tan says Ollama gives end users a clean experience where the tokens come out and the API is rational, and that without a layer like Ollama the inference providers' undocumented errors are a minefield.Y Combinator Startup Podcast· 11 Aug
Peter Steinberger says the "your agent, your machine, your life" thesis is Garry Tan's, and that OpenClaw shipped it first.Y Combinator Startup Podcast· 6 Aug
Garry Tan says founders of earlier generations had to recruit dozens of believers before they could build anything, while you need a laptop and a few years of your own history.