Tan: YC backs technical founders because business mechanics can be taught
Garry Tan · No Priors Ep 66 | With Y Combinator President and CEO Garry Tan · May 23, 2024 · at 6:51
Garry Tan, President and CEO of Y Combinator, describes YC's foundational thesis of prioritizing technical capability over traditional business experience.
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“Which actually, I think that's even, you know, going back to the YC, the cult of YC, I'm starting to realize that is actually one of the core things that we've always believed that extremely technical people those are the people who probably should be, like, the Zucks and the Larry and Sergeys of the world. Like, those are the people who we should give extra support to and actually fund and, you know, basically the hard part about playing chess is not knowing how the pieces move, it's being smart. So let's go find the smart people, and then we can teach them, like, the community will teach them how to you know, play, play chess, the game itself.”
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