Posterous
company on 5 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes · said 27 times in 11 episodes since 2016
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 11 
20VC 7 
Mixergy 5 
No Priors 3 
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Tan: Building Garry's List with Claude Code took $200 and five days
“The first time it took about, you know, four million dollars and, you know, six or seven people and about a year and a half. And then the second time it, you know, took about, I don't know, a hundred grand and two people, me and my co-founder Brett Gibson, who…”
Tan: Rebuilt Posterous with AI, Replacing 10 Engineers and $10M
“Along the way, I've essentially built all of Posturus, which took two years to build with a co-founder and a team of 10 engineers. I've essentially built all of my startup Posturus, which took two years, ten million dollars, and 10 engineers to build.”
Hartz passed on investing in YC President Gary Tan's startup Posterous
“I passed on Gary when he was working on Posterous.”
Tan: Posterous had a chance to be Instagram without realizing it
“Posterous was funny because we had a chance to be Instagram, but we didn't know it at the time.”
Posterous could have survived long-term if it charged for usage
“I wish Posterous actually charged money. That was my blog platform software that I worked on. We probably should have turned it into Something that charged for usage and maybe Posturus instead of getting sold could be around today, perhaps a lot like our frien…”