Gary Tan

“And so Gary and Harge and I sat down and said, okay, let's start a fund. Let's raise a little bit of money. We raised about seven.”

“Gary, in fact, wrote just about all of the modern code that powers Y Combinator.”

“I know Gary Tan and Alexis Ohanian from our investors at Initialize, they've been very, very good in helping us build our brand. They brought on Kim Mai Cutler onto their team from TechCrunch, and she's been extremely helpful in actually coaching us through ho…”

“I think it was he who accepted Instacart into Y Combinator after the deadline had passed for applications, and similarly with Coinbase early on, I think this is public, but there was a moment where they were having a bit of a liquidity crunch, and Gary just wi…”

“I'm a, I like, I'm a personal investor in the new, a reconstituted, initialized Gary's going to be or is an investor in seven, seven, six”

“I see another, at least a Another incredible decade for YC, and this was a genius move.”

“Initialize ones like 50 X tiny fund, maybe a hundred X and initialize to I bet is 10 X net for a big fund.”

“Half are going to stay and Gary's going to do this for a decade. That alone will be transform transformational to SF by, I don't know, 20, 28.”

“Rickling came in, Parker came in and we gave a term sheet. It was, you know, obviously controversial at the time, for the seed, and Gary Tan, initialized, also gave a term sheet. And at the time, there was about a ten million dollar gap. I probably offered fiv…”

“I probably should have. I kind of regret not doing it. I think I was maybe too much pride and ego that I didn't need it. But YC has a lot of gifts to keep on giving, even if you're a second time founder, like work at a startup like office hours. So I am very i…”

“I passed on Gary when he was working on Posterous.”