[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]

[@garrytan](/creator/twitter/garrytan)
"Funny early Palantir story We were doing some of our first sales meetings for Palantir and (team was all under XX at the time) and were staying at the Mandarin Oriental We said hey this is a startup Why are we wasting money on this Alex Karp said the people youre selling to will ask you where you are staying. And we arent selling Motel X software. We are selling Mandarin Oriental software"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1919100609850184001) 2025-05-04 18:43:35 UTC 587K followers, 824.1K engagements


"Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Our culture needs courage will agency and audacity"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1942820368579977687) 2025-07-09 05:37:26 UTC 587.3K followers, 183.5K engagements


"Sometimes you dont raise money and your startup dies Sometimes you raise too much money and your startup dies Its just one more way to die. There are 1001 ways. Its not the most important question. The most important question is: did you make something people want"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944824936922558938) 2025-07-14 18:22:52 UTC 587.3K followers, 181K engagements


"America will cease to be exceptional if the worlds best AI researchers cant even be in the country"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945669245318348822) 2025-07-17 02:17:51 UTC 587.3K followers, 101.6K engagements


"What happened to Google When flipping to Alphabet the goal became protecting the search monopoly and get people to click on ads and keep them doing that. Which is at odds with the original vision: organizing the worlds information which might mean less ad revenue"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1823746986777948284) 2024-08-14 15:42:19 UTC 587.2K followers, 164.8K engagements


"Might be a little extreme but it would get results"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946058589241823272) 2025-07-18 04:04:58 UTC 587K followers, 39.9K engagements


"NBER legend William Nordhaus found innovators keep just XXX % of the value they create. Every $X in billionaire profit delivers $XX to workers + consumers. Billionaires = net-positive spillovers"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1943106501494833549) 2025-07-10 00:34:25 UTC 587.3K followers, 67.6K engagements


"Is there a Perplexity for Notetaking yet I realize I take a lot of Apple Notes but per Apple being not very good at software anymore the chance of it becoming smarter anytime in the next XX months is zero Eg if I paste a link I want the important or interesting parts inline expanded and I want it to be a part of my RAG queries Arguably this should be a part of memory in Claude or ChatGPT"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1935705553055236353) 2025-06-19 14:25:42 UTC 587.3K followers, 758.2K engagements


"In SF we are facing judges that are repeatedly releasing people who continue to engage in illegal conduct (drug dealing etc) and continue to knowingly break their stay away orders Our city and our citizens become the victims of a social experiment gone wrong"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945295079071211811) 2025-07-16 01:31:03 UTC 587.3K followers, 101.9K engagements


"Pretty wild to hear a Chinese mega-tech wholesale cloned a YC startup @outerbase open sourced the clone (10k stars on Github) but meanwhile Outerbase just kept fixing their own bugs and kept building the core product. 🤯 Has this happened to others"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1747332766583422993) 2024-01-16 18:59:30 UTC 586.7K followers, 355.2K engagements


"Thanks to Dalton Caldwell and Paul Buchheit. Excited for their new VC fund"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1933234786560262447) 2025-06-12 18:47:45 UTC 587.3K followers, 45.6K engagements


"During the height of the Chesa Boudin recall campaign KQED gave him a solo softball platform on stage to defend his record"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946985528844603499) 2025-07-20 17:28:17 UTC 587.3K followers, XXX engagements


"@nizzyabi I guess it just depends Having good people who have been there in your corner is useful for figuring it out"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944438818746388708) 2025-07-13 16:48:34 UTC 586.9K followers, 8626 engagements


"SF creates technology for the entire world and the only way to keep the $ in the hands of the workers and make it awesome for everyone is to build housing. Landlord NIMBYs like Aaron Peskin will hide behind "hate tech people" but we can't let them They're going to blame tech but actually we need to build 10x more housing"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947369184926830853) 2025-07-21 18:52:48 UTC 587.3K followers, 34.6K engagements


"Y Combinator has helped create more than $XXX billion in market value over XX years. Thank you to Paul Jessica Trevor and Robert and Happy Birthday to the fixed point combinator that changed the world"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1899092996702048709) 2025-03-10 13:40:28 UTC 587.3K followers, 1.1M engagements


"@chadwahl @ycombinator Personal ontology needed Apple Notes just not cutting it"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944435001942278509) 2025-07-13 16:33:24 UTC 587.3K followers, 6309 engagements


"Without the YC community this guy would still be operating and would have maybe never been caught The startup guild of YC is a necessary invention to help founders be more successful than they would be alone"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1940474344758825065) 2025-07-02 18:15:10 UTC 586.7K followers, 358.7K engagements


"@0xPBIT Google and Apple editorial staffs have long turned a blind eye to the hard leftist views of XX Hills sad to say To the detriment of our schools to the destruction of California making our streets unsafe for law abiding citizens"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947354972607348912) 2025-07-21 17:56:20 UTC 587.3K followers, XXX engagements


"This is great until someone gives your product away for free as a loss leader Or your worst competitor turns it into a capital game and raises from big investors Unless your moats are unassailable or your market is too small to matter beware this strategy"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944434773600182607) 2025-07-13 16:32:30 UTC 587.3K followers, 541.6K engagements


"There is something truly unhinged about California state politics Stefani was once a moderate voice in SF and just a year later is now completely in the pocket of powerful public sector unions You hate to see it"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946087014496887141) 2025-07-18 05:57:55 UTC 587.3K followers, 49.6K engagements


"Basically the Windsurf founders left the cash in the remainco more than the sum of the equity for the XXX and told the remaining people to dividend it out or find a better option. So it sounds like they did leave the people whole. Cognition gave them that better option but if immediate cash liquidation was the top priority they could have shut down and dividended the cash"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947108635949379667) 2025-07-21 01:37:28 UTC 587.3K followers, 62.1K engagements


"There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things. Phil Karlton"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946707615901528470) 2025-07-19 23:03:58 UTC 587.3K followers, 141.1K engagements


"If this is true it would be sad. The Soham saga doesnt seem widespread to me. He seems like a X std dev above the mean kind of fraud. Decent startup idea in here though: there is probably a space for remote employee certification"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1940462850981744865) 2025-07-02 17:29:30 UTC 587.3K followers, 345.6K engagements


"YC is one of the few places in the world where your partners will drive you to pivot towards product market fit very consistently"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947029771789251028) 2025-07-20 20:24:06 UTC 587.3K followers, 147.2K engagements


"Probably the most unfair thing they do consistently is publish as news the PR they get directly from the politicians they agree with without comment from the actual sources with real knowledge"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946982097555468322) 2025-07-20 17:14:39 UTC 587.3K followers, 6322 engagements


"@grantrowberry Some people believe in codegen model companies will turn out to be the platform and you can't compete against the platform If you think about it from that angle it is rational and the pressure to sell is a lot more real than "investors want an exit" It's a macro guess"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947103731843252235) 2025-07-21 01:17:59 UTC 587.3K followers, 26K engagements


"KQED CEO Michael J Isip needs to focus on truth in journalism instead of their biased Code of Ethics which justifies the opposite KQEDs coverage of crime targeting Asian Americans was abysmal especially all the propaganda in support of disgraced DA Chesa Boudin"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946976136891605443) 2025-07-20 16:50:58 UTC 587.3K followers, 46.1K engagements


"They funnel money to activists who actively work to make Oakland much worse for the people who live there"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946981290869248432) 2025-07-20 17:11:27 UTC 587.3K followers, 3786 engagements


"When Boudin was hired to head up a new criminal justice program at UC Berkeley they more or less published the press release; nobody else was"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946985532032254423) 2025-07-20 17:28:18 UTC 587.3K followers, XXX engagements


"MCP is too brittle and opaque. I still hope it gets a lot better but even print to PDF or select-all-copy-paste is 10x more usable than MCP Comet would be next level perfect if I could also use grok4 heavy or o3-pro on the DOM"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944460390278332722) 2025-07-13 18:14:18 UTC 587.3K followers, 526.5K engagements


"New social networks are going to appear that will be LLMs creating a cozy web customized for us and our real friends and their friends and so on There will be a new social network built on mutual trust all curated by machines of loving grace Personal Cozyweb is inevitable"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1941015807045361761) 2025-07-04 06:06:45 UTC 587.3K followers, 199.5K engagements


"When you examine the list of nonprofits and academics that want to remove advanced math from classrooms and water down the standards for all students it will leave you shaken. Its not a fringe movement. It is School of Education Orthodoxy"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1941492240393830598) 2025-07-05 13:39:55 UTC 586.7K followers, 143.7K engagements


"Instead of implementing high school struggle sessions colleges should push the SAT to add more levels beyond 1600 to capture higher levels of extraordinary ability and use that"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945861591872016497) 2025-07-17 15:02:10 UTC 587.3K followers, 128.7K engagements


"San Francisco schools is trying its absolute hardest to make sure all middle income families who could move out of the city do so right away Grading for Equity is going to be a real disaster and I guess this is a boon for SF private schools and Burlingame housing prices"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1927580354581524880) 2025-05-28 04:19:03 UTC 587.2K followers, 2.1M engagements


"When presenting your startup to anyone anytime 1/ What is it 2/ What problem does it solve and for who 3/ Why is this the best All the commentary in the world about your space your monetization strategy your tech stack your brand is nothing without nailing those first 3"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1938358109770330486) 2025-06-26 22:06:00 UTC 587.3K followers, 228K engagements


""Robotics companies now are where LLM companies were five years ago. Sometimes in the next five years we will see the ChatGPT moment for robots." @bobmcgrewai"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1885746126160372118) 2025-02-01 17:44:46 UTC 586.6K followers, 383.5K engagements


"I'm fine to be taxed. But when the state doesn't keep citizens safe ruins schools and prevents businesses from thriving then our tax dollars go to grift and abuse. I'm not OK with that. We should demand effective gov't that works instead of attack those who create growth"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1943325847576023520) 2025-07-10 15:06:01 UTC 586.7K followers, 139.8K engagements


"One big reason why AI intelligence will gather increasingly in the browser (like Perplexitys Comet) The browser wars are about to heat up all over again"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945881780327944382) 2025-07-17 16:22:23 UTC 587.3K followers, 47K engagements


"Alexandr Wang: The future isn't humans vs AI - it's humans managing AI chaos. Even self-driving cars need X human operator per X cars to handle edge cases. The last XX% of accuracy That's where humans shine. Management isn't going away it's evolving"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1936520092008714653) 2025-06-21 20:22:23 UTC 587.3K followers, 843.8K engagements


"Doom Looper Aaron Peskins NIMBY protgs must step down especially when they are literally engaging in a shakedown operation blocking new housing unless their favored cronies are employed"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945299879972028903) 2025-07-16 01:50:07 UTC 587.3K followers, 82.3K engagements


"Fiber AI just launched out of YC S23. They do mail warming lead list creation and even help you write warm emails tailored to your sales targets Doing this right is a key part of getting any outbound sales startup off the ground"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1684789177999847424) 2023-07-28 04:53:36 UTC 587.3K followers, 37.3K engagements


"This is a shitpost and a craven and sad attempt at attention FYI. We don't have an "admissions team" anymore we stopped using that term more than a year ago. The amount of anti-YC bullshit that is going on in the community is off the charts. Please stop"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1941538571804082262) 2025-07-05 16:44:02 UTC 587.3K followers, 808.3K engagements


"Bottom quartile investing at YC demo day is better than top quartile venture capital investing"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1927946812364574912) 2025-05-29 04:35:14 UTC 587.2K followers, 376.5K engagements


"Try to be the best version of you Too many young founders are desperate to be someone else"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945891531719864805) 2025-07-17 17:01:08 UTC 587.3K followers, 150.2K engagements


"@Widdrat Bunch of YC rejects clout chasing"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946207672392409489) 2025-07-18 13:57:22 UTC 586.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Elon Musk is back on the main quest Why fight on the beach when you have a 100ft tidal wave of superintelligence coming to remake everything"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1935810032819736715) 2025-06-19 21:20:52 UTC 587.3K followers, 36.3M engagements


"Jackie Fielder hates funding treatment and recovery and using an absurd procedural argument to attack Mayor Lurie She literally wants fentanyl addicts to do drugs until they die. Undermining a voter initiative a smokescreen for keeping her nonprofit crony friends fully funded"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945546756688642258) 2025-07-16 18:11:07 UTC 587K followers, 60K engagements


"@hackgoofer Varun is a friend but not an investor in Windsurf or Cognition"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947093638837829890) 2025-07-21 00:37:53 UTC 587.3K followers, 17.1K engagements


"San Francisco needs police officers SF is led by a mayor and administration and police department leadership that is now XXX% focused on public safety - please get the word out. SF is rising and SFPD is a big part of the solution"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944845356648599947) 2025-07-14 19:44:01 UTC 586.7K followers, 38.8K engagements


"Mayor Lurie is fighting some serious grift from Fielder Walton and Chan on the SF Board of Supervisors. He is doing the right things to build the boom loop in our city"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945865643451982059) 2025-07-17 15:18:16 UTC 587.1K followers, 20.7K engagements


"AI coding agents hit a wall when codebases get massive. Even with 2M token context windows a 10M line codebase needs 100M tokens. The real bottleneck isn't just ingesting code - it's getting models to actually pay attention to all that context effectively"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1932827640131354947) 2025-06-11 15:49:54 UTC 587.2K followers, 972.9K engagements


"Varun Mohan and the team at Windsurf built something great. What I heard is every founding engineer (over XX of them) cleared X figures. The remaining org of XXX was only XX engineers who had worked there less than a year the rest were sales and ops and even then they left more cash in the business that could have made everyone more than whole if the remaining team was willing to dividend it and shut down. Varun preserved $2.3B in value for the investors and vested cap table and did his best under time pressure with the options he had. He and his team dont deserve to be dragged and I think in"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947072583092052406) 2025-07-20 23:14:13 UTC 587.3K followers, 1.1M engagements


"Agents without memory of me and what I care about and all the context around me are just not as useful We are so early it is not yet table stakes but it will be"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944286650579963914) 2025-07-13 06:43:55 UTC 587.3K followers, 319.2K engagements


"San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is a true leader who is standing up for a terrorized citizenry that is fed up and shouldn't have to take this anymore. Public safety and a functioning criminal justice system is a basic expectation of a functioning government"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945631801374118285) 2025-07-16 23:49:04 UTC 587.1K followers, 37K engagements


"The key thing about having communities is that you have to have standards around behavior No shirt no shoes no service If you want nice things there have to be lines that are not crossed"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946299793547882839) 2025-07-18 20:03:25 UTC 587.3K followers, 92.5K engagements


"Of startups worth $5B+ started since 2012 Y Combinator was seed investor XX% of them (I'm also quite proud of @Initialized as seed co-lead for X of those too)"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1917378154982957372) 2025-04-30 00:39:09 UTC 587.3K followers, 949.3K engagements


"Its true: you can do a lot more with much smaller teams and you can go faster and farther than ever"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946663080470904977) 2025-07-19 20:07:00 UTC 587.3K followers, 60.6K engagements


"@JNSilva_ I'm embarrassed to say this is my overkill rig - Sony A7R4 + Sigma 20mm f1.4 wide open + X XLR inputs with my AT 4053b hypercardioid condenser mic LOL"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1238506698924408832) 2020-03-13 16:46:22 UTC 586.8K followers, XX engagements


"Aravind and Perplexity seriously cooked with Comet Browser ngl having in-page context and memory directly in the browser is another level of usefulness"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1943694581943460217) 2025-07-11 15:31:15 UTC 587.3K followers, 97.4K engagements


"I got rejected from the prestigious "next top entrenpreneur" program and got big nos at pitch competitions in college but it didn't stop me. Rejection shouldn't stop you. The key is to brush it off and do it anyway. Don't be thirsty be better"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1943470315528683873) 2025-07-11 00:40:05 UTC 587.3K followers, 196.5K engagements


"48 Hills should be removed from Google News and Apple News These partisan and deranged blogs are not legitimate news outlets"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947354351221280856) 2025-07-21 17:53:52 UTC 587.3K followers, 14.6K engagements


"PSA notice to founders considering YC Doing YC more than pays for the X% equity you give up When you combine that with the clear speed up and community that helps you (and that your % likelihood of success goes up a lot more too) this means YC is clearly worth it"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1931366584628531543) 2025-06-07 15:04:11 UTC 587.3K followers, 638.9K engagements


"I cant believe New York City is about to do this to themselves"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946078997571666422) 2025-07-18 05:26:04 UTC 587.3K followers, 11.5K engagements


"Holistic college admissions More like hostile and racist. 18-yo prodigy Stanley Zhong gets Google L4 but is rejected by XX colleges. I sat with his YC-alum dad Nan who sued UC to crack open the admissions black box. The American Dream demands merit not more racism 👇"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1929596997834801584) 2025-06-02 17:52:29 UTC 586.7K followers, 536.2K engagements


"Jung said: The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious it happens outside as fate. Founders on their journey must overcome their inner situation and integrate their shadow. Only then will they have a chance at altering fate itself"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1933396514984112438) 2025-06-13 05:30:24 UTC 587.2K followers, 360K engagements


"Remember startups generally start with a "thin edge of the wedge." The early game is going from zero to one which means you have to find a set of people willing to use your product & pay. THEN you grow to turn that wedge into a piece of the pie. Alphabet wasn't built in a day"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944763878111625475) 2025-07-14 14:20:15 UTC 587.3K followers, 124.2K engagements


"Reputation is one of the most under-appreciated things that compound in tech"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1943709549179064704) 2025-07-11 16:30:43 UTC 586.7K followers, 77.6K engagements


"yachty says you need to put your stuff out there you never know who's watching you have dreams put it out"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944455064841859357) 2025-07-13 17:53:08 UTC 587.3K followers, 85.8K engagements