Garry Tan
27 statements across 14 episodes · 16 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 12, 2024 by Garry Tan · said 14 times in 6 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2025 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
2019 6 mentions in 1 episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Garry Tan, oldest first
Jul 12, 2024 negative
Aug 13, 2024 positive
Oct 11, 2024 neutral
Nov 1, 2024 bullish
Tan: AGI is effectively already here for most knowledge worker tasks
“Like you could make a strong case that AGI is basically already here. The majority of the tasks that, you know, 98% of knowledge workers do day-to-day it is now possible for a software engineer probably sitting in front of cursor, to write something that gets …”
Nov 1, 2024 bullish
Tan: $50M ARR YC company automated 60% of support to reach profitability
“They knew that they needed to raise more money, but in the year since, they automated about 60% of their customer support tickets. And they went from something that needed to raise another round imminently to something that was totally cash flow break even whi…”
Apr 4, 2025 neutral
Jun 25, 2025 bullish
Dec 22, 2025 negative
Dec 22, 2025 neutral
Tan: Enterprise incompetence slows down dangerous AI fast takeoff
“Well, it turns out that 90% of enterprises don't know how to do You know, IT, let alone AI. It's weird to say that that's a good thing, but in the context of fast takeoff, like that is a real break on the ability of this new, really insane technology from actu…”
Dec 22, 2025 bullish
Tan: Still a long-term investor in Nvidia despite increasing competition
“You know, I think I'm still a long-term buy and hold, honestly, but for the moment, people are like, oh, well, Gemini's so good, and all the, you know, nobody seems to be NVIDIA only now, and everyone's buying AMD, and everyone's, you know, and TPUs are workin…”
Dec 22, 2025 negative
Dec 22, 2025 positive
Dec 22, 2025 bullish
Dec 22, 2025 neutral
Tan: GPT-4 wiped out YC startups' RL fine-tuning lead over GPT-3.5
“You know, we've also had YC companies where, ah, they had something that beat OpenAI, ah, you know, GPT-III.V and they were doing fine-tuning with RL, but then, ah, yeah, GPT-IV and then, ah, GPT-IV came out and, ah, you know, basically blew their fine-tuning …”
Dec 22, 2025 bearish
Feb 6, 2026 positive
Feb 6, 2026 bullish
Feb 6, 2026 bullish
Garry Tan: Claude Code is an unlock that enables 5x faster coding
“I recently got very, very addicted to Claude Code, and I would describe it as, like, 10 years ago I was a marathon runner, and I loved doing it, and then I suffered a catastrophic knee injury, which is called manager mode, and I stopped coding, which is tragic…”
Mar 27, 2026
Tan: gstack Reached 40,000 Stars and 100+ Contributor PRs
“I have sort of this viral moment right now where I got to 40,000 stars this morning on a G stack. So it's like, oh, this is an open source project that now is one of the biggest ones. And I have more than a hundred PRs from contributors to deal with.”
May 8, 2026 negative
May 27, 2026 bullish
Garry Tan: AI agents are at their foundational Unix-era primitive stage
“It feels like we're right at that moment today, like we're just coming up with the new primitives for what an agentic system actually is, and you can see it in the parallel sort of development of like, we're just trying to do a thing, and it might be in Claude…”
May 27, 2026 bearish
Tan: $100K AI token workloads will drop to $200 in two years
“What you spend a 100,000 or a million dollars a year on now, it will be commonplace like in, in two years, right? It'll, it won't cost a 100,000 in a year. It'll cost 10,000. And the year after that, it'll be like a couple hundred bucks, right? And everyone wi…”
May 27, 2026 positive
Garry Tan: Optimal agent resolvers require DRY and MECE parameterized skills
“And so if you have a dry and MECE resolver table anywhere, it's actually like the optimal resolver Like, it's bad to have 10 skills that do all the same thing. It's good to have one skill or one tool that has parameters that then let you call them.”
Jun 10, 2026 positive
Garry Tan Ingested a 60GB Google Takeout to Extract 4,000 Emails
“My OpenClaw got really interesting once I just ingested my 60 gig Google takeout. I mean, you have to write a bunch of haiku code to like only get the emails that are actually real, but you know, there's like, it extracted like 4000 emails out of like 60 gigs …”
Jun 10, 2026 positive
Garry Tan: Hardware and Parameter Limits Prevent AI from Eliminating Jobs
“This is actually an answer to one of the questions, which is like, will there be jobs or whatever? It's like, as long as there are limits on RAM, actually like there will be. So I don't know. I mean. Kind of an interesting one, right? Literally you can't have …”
Jul 26, 2026 positive
Tan: All competitive alpha lies in building custom, self-improving AI models
“I feel like all the alpha is in building your own AI. I mean, if someone else is using whatever is off the shelf, but you're, you have a thing that can recursively self-improve, and it is, you know, I mean, the mechanic, people are very flippant about markdown…”