Gary

person on 9 shows · 7 statements across 6 episodes · said 18 times in 10 episodes since 2013

the MAD Podcast 6 How I Built This 5 Founders 2 Top Founders 2 the a16z Podcast 2 the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 Acquired TBPN 20VC

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Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not checkable as stated
Friedman: Tan replicated years of startup work in two weeks using Claude
“I feel like your real feel the AGI moment, Gary, was like getting Claude Code to build basically an entire startup for you, like replicating years of work of your previous startup in like two weeks, which is like insane.”
Jared Friedman Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 1:42 The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator
TBPN Assertion Supported
Y Combinator's Bookface platform contains a database rating venture capitalists
“I mean, it goes on the, it goes on book face. Like Gary built that thing. And like, there's a whole database of, VCs and with ratings, like how, how'd, how'd they do what they do to you? All this stuff.”
John Coogan Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 1:29:00 Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
TBPN Opinion
Hays: Garry Tan is why investors should be long SF real estate
“Gary's the reason that you should be extremely long SF real estate right now.”
Jordi Hays Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 1:27:06 How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
TBPN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hays: San Francisco Will Benefit Massively From Local and Federal Momentum
“You've had Gary Focus deeply on San Francisco and having San Francisco you know, making a lot of positive progress on, on on things simultaneously having new momentum at the federal level, San Francisco is going to benefit massively from both of those trends.”
Jordi Hays Nov 14, 2024 ▶ 45:47 Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
TBPN Insight
Hays: Investors Should Buy SF Real Estate to Recapture Startup Capital
“No, but I think one way to go long technology is to go long SF. That's what Gary's done. And if you want to benefit from that boom, fund the startups, but then buy up all the real estate. So you sort of recapture some of that Value, because a lot of founders' …”
Jordi Hays Nov 14, 2024 ▶ 48:15 Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
20VC Opinion
Blomfield: Y Combinator Improved Significantly Under Garry Tan
“I think YC has changed a lot in the last two years for the better, and I put it, a lot of it down to Gary.”
Tom Blomfield May 13, 2024 ▶ 1:03:23 Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ACQUIRED Opinion
Digital Research missing the IBM PC OS deal was a historic blunder
“What is clear is, however it goes down, this is one of, if not the biggest Business blunder in history”
David Rosenthal Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 1:40:05 Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired

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