Tan: Organizational superintelligence is built by compounding micro AI skills across all work
Garry Tan · Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator · May 27, 2026 · at 24:27
Garry Tan, President and CEO of Y Combinator, explains how YC uses internal AI loops to automate and enhance daily partner workflows.
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“How do you build super intelligence inside a company? You do that on everything you do. And it's not more complicated than that. Like, you literally just compose everything that you do, and any given thing that any given person can do, you combine that in aggregate, and in this particular process, and, like, you have a super organization.”
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