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Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders Apr 29, 2025 · 43 mentions

• ▶ 24:14 Garry Tan Well, um, at YC what we hope is that people actually come to San Francisco and, uh, you know, we do strongly advocate that they stay, but it's no requirement. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 27:19 Garry Tan I mean, if it's scary, but might, might or probably will be good, I think we want to fund them, and certainly there are things that, um, would be bad for society, but are likely to make money, and, um, you know, the history is our, our… 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 31:51 Garry Tan Maybe that's actually one of the reasons why YC startups are much more successful. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 33:12 Garry Tan When Paul and Jessica created YC for my, I, I went through the program myself in 2008, and, ah, I came out transformed, and then that's very explicitly what I want to happen for people, um, who go through the batch today. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 41:33 Garry Tan I think that FYC is the shelling point for earnest, friendly, ambitious nerds, uh, to steal something from, uh, 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 45:51 Garry Tan Um, you know, what might happen here is that, you know, and what we're actively trying to do at YC is we hope that there, you know, are thousands of companies that each can make hundreds of millions to billions of dollars and give… 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 48:40 Garry Tan We invited our, uh, top YC alums there.
• ▶ 1:03:11 Garry Tan So we have, you know, lots of startups, both YC and not YC, that are trying to test that out right now. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:08:03 Garry Tan Yeah, there are YC companies and many startups out there that are actively trying to build that right now. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:45:15 Garry Tan He was one of the first people to get access to GPT-IV, and we think of him at YC as the first man on the moon, and that he was the first to successfully commercialize GPT-IV in the legal space. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:53:25 Garry Tan Um, I, I think that that remains to be seen, like the classic thing that Sam Altman has, ah, told YC companies, and, you know, told most startups, period, is you should count on the, ah, models getting better.
• ▶ 1:55:58 Garry Tan I guess, you know, is it cheating to say I'd put even more money into, into my, the, the YC funds that I already run, but that's a, that's a cop out.
• ▶ 2:04:18 Garry Tan Like, what I should be worried about is, um, and, you know, I spend a lot of time with, uh, our YouTube team and our media team at YC talking about this. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 2:11:16 Garry Tan I think the, the most unusual thing that, you know, I'm still getting used to is, ah, I mean, in full transparency, I mean, probably, you know, the median YC startup still fails, right? 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 2:15:46 Garry Tan You know, actually, this is actually when Paul Graham, uh, came to recruit me to come back to YC, I had actually left and started my own VC firm, uh, you know, got to three billion dollars under management, like in the end. 6 times in the scene