Garry Tan
7 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 17, 2025 by Garry Tan · said 5 times in 3 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Oct 17, 2025 positive
Tan: Gemini 2.5 excels at extracting structural patterns from long video scripts
“One of the things that I did recently, I took the scripts of all of the top videos that I ever made from my YouTube channel, and I just fed it in, and the prompt to Gemini, because it had long context at the time, I think a lot of other people have long contex…”
Oct 17, 2025 positive
Oct 17, 2025 positive
Tan: Founders Worry Prematurely About Market Size Ceilings
“I think a lot of founders are worried about that early, but my sense is maybe it's premature worry because embedded in that is also the case text pivot that, you know, they got users and an understanding and a useful corpus of data All of which turned into a t…”
Oct 17, 2025 bullish
Tan: Asking AI to iteratively update its own prompt compounds output quality
“Get the script to where I felt really good about it, and then at the last point, I would say, given what we did in this session to improve the prompt, output the next version of the prompt. And so now I've done this about 20 or 30 times, and so now I have a th…”
Oct 17, 2025 positive
Tan: Reliable LLM output requires decomposing tasks into small contextual steps
“At that moment if you chopped it down to a bite-sized chunk, like you gave it some amount of context, That a human being, given the same context and the same prompt, would answer in a certain way. He found that he could, ah, you know, given inputs and outputs,…”
Oct 17, 2025 positive
Oct 17, 2025
Tan: 18-to-22-year-old founders at YC are up over 100% year-over-year
“Well, even at YC, like, we are seeing the rate of 18 to twenty-two-year-olds at YC is up by more than a hundred percent year on year. The rate of twenty-two-year-olds to twenty-five-year-olds is up about 20%. And then the rate of 25 to thirty-year-olds is actu…”