Uncapped with Jack Altman
Uncapped #7 | Garry Tan from Y Combinator
Conversations with people I admire about things I’m genuinely interested in.
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This week I sat down with Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator. YC has funded 5,000+ startups including Airbnb, Stripe, DoorDash, Rippling, and Reddit, among others that have totaled $600B in combined valuation.
Garry is a designer, engineer, and investor in early stage startups. Previously Founder & Managing Partner of Initialized Capital, an early stage venture capital fund that was earliest in Coinbase and Instacart. Before that, Garry was a partner at Y Combinator where he invested in and directly worked with over 700 companies at the earliest stage. He previously co-founded Posterous and helped build it to a world-class website used by millions (acquired by Twitter).
Garry is a builder at heart.
We covered:
Running YC like a founder
Advice for founders
Picking winners
What changes because of AI
YC being the “YC of hard tech”
Public service
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Timestamps:
() Intro
() Running YC like a founder
() Focusing on growth and prosperity
() Incredible pick rate
() Role of the Group Partner
() Lean vs fat startups
() Archetypes of special founders
() Rule changes because of AI
() YC being the “YC of hard tech”
() Community and political involvement
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