Garry Tan
23 statements across 1 episodes · 13 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 29, 2025 by Garry Tan · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Apr 29, 2025 positive
Apr 29, 2025
Garry Tan: Founders unable to explain their startup in 10 minutes lack clarity
“One of the things I feel like I learned from Paul was that if in 10 minutes you cannot actually understand what's going on it means the person on the other end doesn't actually understand what's going on, and there isn't anything to understand.”
Apr 29, 2025 positive
Tan: Coinbase's Brian Armstrong is one of the best founders ever
“Brian Armstrong is, like, the best, one of the best founders I've ever met, and gotten, gotten the chance to work with and fund, and I think the world desperately needs more people like that, where, you know, in the background, just, like, consistent, doing th…”
Apr 29, 2025 negative
Apr 29, 2025 bearish
Apr 29, 2025 positive
Garry Tan: ChatGPT is the second-best software; custom UIs are first
“One of the funnier quips is that, ah, you know, the second best software in the world for everything is, ah, using ChatGPT, because you can basically copy and paste, you know, almost any workflow or any data, and it's like the general purpose thing that, you k…”
Apr 29, 2025 bullish
Apr 29, 2025 bearish
Garry Tan: Competitors offering double cash cannot match Y Combinator's success
“There are clones of YC right now that give like twice as much money, for instance, but I don't think that they're going to see this level of success because they're not going to have As earnest people who become as formidable around you.”
Apr 29, 2025 neutral
Apr 29, 2025 bullish
Apr 29, 2025 bullish
Garry Tan: AI passing the Turing test will jump to 30% this year
“I think in a lot of domains, and this is sort of the year where, like, Maybe there's, like, five or 10% of things that, like, it's, you know, sort of hitting the Turing test and, you know, really satisfying that, but, you know, I think maybe this is a year whe…”
Apr 29, 2025
Apr 29, 2025 positive
Apr 29, 2025 positive
Apr 29, 2025 negative
Garry Tan: Premature AI laws will stall clean energy and medicine
“It would also potentially be worse to prematurely optimize And basically make a bunch of worthless laws that slow down the rate of progress and prevent things like better cancer vaccines, or better airfoils, or, you know, frankly, like, you know, nuclear fusio…”
Apr 29, 2025 positive
Apr 29, 2025 bearish
Tan: Social unrest will occur if AI benefits bypass majority of people
“In reaction to, you know, the nature of work changing that would be the outcome that, you know, the majority of people, if not all people, like, see the benefit in some sort of direct way, and if we don't do that, then there will be unrest.”
Apr 29, 2025 positive
Garry Tan: Software moats remain unchanged, but startups only need six employees
“The moats are not different, actually, at the end of the day. It's still, you still have to build good software, you still have to be able to sell, you have to retain customers, you have to But you just don't need like a thousand people for it anymore. You mig…”
Apr 29, 2025 positive
Tan: Earnestness is the defining trait of durable, successful startup founders
“Like incredibly sincere, I think. Basically what you see is what you get. Like you're not trying to be something else. It's like authentic, but like, you know, even humble in that respect, right? Like I'm trying to do this thing. The opposite, I mean, and it's…”
Apr 29, 2025 bullish
Tan: YC-backed Leaping AI automates 80% of German wine merchant orders
“I funded a company in this very current batch that you know it's called Leaping AI. They are they are working with Some of the biggest wine merchants in Germany, which is fascinating. So, I mean, that's another fascinating thing. Like these things speak all hu…”
Apr 29, 2025 positive
Apr 29, 2025 negative
Garry Tan: Sam Bankman-Fried's quirky public persona was a pure artificial affectation
“Like you might think of an SPF that's like, that's all artifice. Like, think about that guy. Like, that guy was, like, full of shakes and, like, the guy was, like, on meth, right? Like, the guy was, you know, everything about it was an affectation. Like, he wa…”