Garry Tan
My $200 million startup mistake: Peter Thiel asked and I said no
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1:20 Risk Creates Luck
3:22 Belief Creates Opportunity
5:07 Setbacks Create Setup
I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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you have dreams, put it out
1:01 My Failure
2:12 Why Scarcity Stinks
4:25 Self Reliance over Coffee Chats
I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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The gap between what models can do vs what products exist is MASSIVE.
Costs dropping 5x week over week. Open source models getting incredible.
If you're building in AI - this is your moment.
We're in an interesting time where there's a huge product overhang relative to what the models are capable of. The products that people have figured out to build is way down here, but there is a lot of **untapped** potential. This is the time to build something that leverages **ai reasoning** and **emergent behaviours** with **openai o3** to really utilize AI.
Build something different. OpenAI wants to be the platform that helps you succeed, not the competitor that crushes you
The real opportunity isn't copying what exists—it's creating what doesn't yet.
0:58 Build Stuff You Desperately Want
4:06 Treat Business Like a Maze, not a Highway
7:10 Be Dangerously Curious
I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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Elon's formula: How useful are you × to how many people?
True work = maximizing that equation.
Kill your ego. Internalize responsibility. Keep your feedback loop to reality intact.
WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
Your golden shadow holds the qualities you admire most in others—boldness, vision, creativity.
Stop projecting. Start claiming what's already yours.
4:37 Save your startup
7:44 Unleash your Golden Shadow
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1:55 The Hidden Bias Against Asian Excellence
5:00 The Fight for Transparency and Justice
I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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What you can do: find your legislators for an oversight hearing on how lax conflict of interest policies at the CA Department of Education allow revenue-generating curriculum creators undue influence in authoring curricular guidelines for CA public schools
Follow Jelani Nelson on X: https://x.com/minilek?s=21
Right now in California, there’s a push to rewrite how math works — not just in the classroom, but in the law.
Two bills — AB 1217 and AB 500 — are working their way through the state legislature. They would pressure to accept watered-down math courses as substitutes for Algebra II in their admissions process.
Visit savemath.net to track the fight for math in California
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00:00 What is Rosebud?
4:20 Rosebud: Where Top Design Meets Personalization
8:22 Developing Healthy Relationships with AI in Rosebud
10:43 The Influence of Therapy Frameworks on Rosebud
14:05 The Future of Rosebud
18:25 Balancing Context Design and Cost Efficiency in LLMs
23:57 Consumer Waves and How AI is Different
25:37 Chrys’ Advice to His Younger Self
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00:00 10X Easier Startup Finances
1:13 What is Runway
9:00 A Different Design Language
15:49 What Makes Runway Unique
20:13 Y Combinator’s First Dropout
29:51 Even with AI we still Need Builders
33:02 Advice for Future Startup Founders
38:20 Leadership, Autonomy and Team Dynamics
I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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In the 1930’s there were over 1500 delis in New York City - but now, only 20 survive from that group. It turns out that owning their building was key in allowing them to do what they do best, and not worry about making the rent on time, forever. All small busineses should have a chance to own their own building, and future. Today, we’re talking to a founder who has a solution for that, Kevin Song from withco.
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00:00 A path to property ownership for small businesses
2:45 The problems small business owners face
5:02 How withco helps empower small business owners
7:05 Finding the perfect space with withco
10:11 Join the team or mission at with.co
I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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00:00 Elad Gil's journey into tech
5:22 Sarah Guo’s journey into tech
10:38 Their first investments
17:20 Characteristics of great founders
I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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00:00 Homelessness: Trapped between compassion & chaos
2:10 How grants pass matters for homelessness
6:56 Status vs conduct
11:24 How did we get here and where are we going?
15:03 The Housing First approach
16:25 The Recovery First approach
I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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Listen to Jessica interview billion-dollar startup founders on her podcast "The Social Radars": https://pod.link/1677066062
Subscribe to Jessica's podcast on Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCMifE9PU5FPV1M7wC61K5CQ
00:00 Jessica’s origin story
10:22 Pre-Y Combinator Career
19:25 Moving home to Boston
33:35 Early Y Combinator
39:46 Meeting Paul Graham and Starting YC
50:12 YC"s early success formula
I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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Tune into their podcast: aarthiandsriram.com
Subscribe to @AarthiAndSriram
00:00 Meet tech power couple: Aarthi & Sriram
4:53 Creating something from nothing
8:10 Their Silicon Valley experience
14:17 Aarthi at Y Combinator
17:32 Advice from Sriram & Aarthi
I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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00:00 Reality distortion fields
4:49 Standing out
8:30 Find your tribe
12:30 E/ACC
16:59 You need a powerful foil
18:21 Taking reputational risks
I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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Buy "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class" by Rob Henderson: amzn.to/49MgNyi
1:45 Meet Rob Henderson
9:47 High Love, high structure situations
16:25 What are Luxury Beliefs and where do they come from?
25:07 Early success of “Troubled” goes unrecognized
28:44 Standardized tests and the importance of a quality education
36:29 Status anxiety
41:46 A path out
I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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Visit extropic.ai/future for the Light Paper and further details.
Great explainer X thread twitter.com/Andercot/status/1767252866094534911
I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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Follow Joseph Gabriel Ilustrisimo - Coach & Trainer instagram.com/_joseph.gabriel
Shout to Lindsay Selvitelle, Director of Events at YC! medium.com/@lindsayselvitelle/three-tech-event-planning-hot-takes-77e650df99e0
I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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Listen to Jessica's podcast "The Social Radars" to hear incredible stories from the most successful YC Founders: https://pod.link/1677066062
0:00 From Idea to $600B in Value
0:45 The Origin of YC
5:00 Working together with Paul Graham
I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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Psychedelic therapies are ready to change society for the better. But we're not talking about not Grateful Dead concerts and the counterculture. Today we're seeing how this powerful technology can be deployed in clinical settings, with repeatable data showing extreme efficacy against some of the most difficult mental health challenges society faces: PTSD, depression, and many more.
Dillan DiNardo
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0:00 Intro
0:48 A Trillion Dollar Problem
3:34 Why it was banned
6:43 Mindstate Design Labs
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Edrizio De La Cruz's immigrant startup founder story is truly one of the biggest roller coasters, and he came out on top having sold his fintech payments company, Arcus, to Mastercard in 2021. He was a visiting group partner at YC and I worked with his company back in the day when he first went through the YC batch in 2014.
From underdog to undefeated, here’s his founder story.
0:00 Introduction
00:49 Beginnings
02:18 Starting his startup
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We’re sitting down with Tanay Tandon, Co-Founder and CEO of Athelas to learn how they did it. Athelas is bringing what the compound startup idea Rippling built for HR and IT, but instead to the super important space of healthcare.
Apply to Athelas: athelas.com/careers
1:31 What is Athelas?
4:19 From blood testing to full tech platform
6:42 Rippling for healthcare
11:58 Athelas is hiring!
I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people.
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