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[@garrytan](/creator/twitter/garrytan)
"Face recognition AI glasses are a killer app tbh"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948439389488517581) 2025-07-24 17:45:25 UTC 588.6K followers, 83.9K engagements


"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 588.5K followers, 824.2K 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 588.6K followers, 183.8K engagements


"Practical robotics plus intelligence soon to be too cheap to meter What a time to be alive"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948702485339590725) 2025-07-25 11:10:52 UTC 588.6K followers, 12.4K 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 588.6K followers, 182K 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 588.6K followers, 102.2K engagements


"Is there a good map-based AI agent app that tells me everything relevant to me and what Im doing nearby to where I am at the moment Especially interesting for travel"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947635174633820260) 2025-07-22 12:29:45 UTC 588.6K followers, 592.7K 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 588.2K followers, 164.9K engagements


"GPT-7 might unleash a prosperity boom if more people get access to far more intelligence and create more breakthroughs for one another"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948494409294553561) 2025-07-24 21:24:03 UTC 588.6K followers, 24.4K 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 588.5K followers, 67.8K 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 588.5K followers, 758.7K engagements


"The Lesson of Craft. There is a lot technologists and founders can learn from a dedication to the craft of building"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948512732703326377) 2025-07-24 22:36:51 UTC 588.6K followers, 27.5K 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 588.5K followers, 355.2K engagements


"Elon Musk's formula for success: Ego Ability X When your ego exceeds your ability you break the feedback loop to reality. Smash your ego. Internalize responsibility. Do whatever it takes. The goal isn't gloryit's true work that serves the most people"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1936466932330324165) 2025-06-21 16:51:09 UTC 588.5K followers, 440.6K 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 588.2K followers, 8645 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 588.6K followers, 72.2K 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 588.5K followers, 1.1M 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 588.1K 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 588.5K followers, 542.1K 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 588.5K followers, 50K 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 588.6K followers, 72.6K 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 588.6K followers, 141.9K 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 588.2K followers, 345.7K 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 588.6K followers, 196.1K 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 588.5K followers, 6673 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 588.6K followers, 30.3K 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 588.6K followers, 51.3K engagements


"VC firms often overpay for aging LeBrons with max deals at the end of their careers when a better strategy is to take as many first round draft picks as you can We work hard to make YC Demo Day into the NBA Draft Lottery"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1940136848543953296) 2025-07-01 19:54:05 UTC 588.4K followers, 194.3K 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 588.6K followers, 4222 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 588.5K followers, XXX engagements


"Real taste in products is not in the eye of other famous or noteworthy builders Taste is in being able to understand customers or users model them and make choices that delight them and solve problems for them and be right over and over again with incomplete information"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948121993401782672) 2025-07-23 20:44:12 UTC 588.6K followers, 77.2K engagements


"Legalize small business and building housing in San Francisco Vote Connie Chan and her cronies out. They are anti-prosperity and want to destroy our city"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948326353088004490) 2025-07-24 10:16:15 UTC 588.6K followers, 18.8K 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 588.6K followers, 526.9K engagements


"An agent who can do work for you is a big big idea"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948120434378998051) 2025-07-23 20:38:00 UTC 588.6K followers, 30K 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 588.6K followers, 129.5K 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 588.6K followers, 2.1M engagements


"What does Mister Market seem to know here"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946292401087152252) 2025-07-18 19:34:03 UTC 588.5K followers, 26.8K 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 588.6K followers, 228.3K engagements


"Craft is truly caring about what you make. Software or sushi either way it is about absolute dedication to creating something people want. The Lesson of Craft"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948043075214819565) 2025-07-23 15:30:36 UTC 588.6K followers, 34.7K 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 588.5K followers, 844.1K engagements


"@yrebryk @southpkcommons @ycombinator @HF0Residency @seedcamp @sequoia I think you got #1 wrong"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1915938449213034589) 2025-04-26 01:18:17 UTC 588.2K followers, XXX 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 588.2K followers, 82.4K 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 588K followers, 37.3K engagements


"@futureisasi Sony FX3 35mm f1.4 shot wide open natural window light"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948555246026027495) 2025-07-25 01:25:47 UTC 588.6K followers, XXX 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 588.2K followers, 808.5K 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 588.6K followers, 376.8K 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 588.6K followers, 151.1K engagements


"Startups have to rediscover zero bug bounce Every few sprints get to zero P2 bugs before you start new feature work. Otherwise your product will be a low quality mess forever. One part of great craft is getting to zero known bugs regularly"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948488376870375571) 2025-07-24 21:00:04 UTC 588.6K followers, 109.4K 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 588.6K followers, 36.3M 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 588.6K followers, 20.4K 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 588.2K followers, 20.8K 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 588.6K followers, 973.4K 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 588.6K followers, 1.3M 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 588.6K followers, 320.7K 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 588.6K followers, 93K 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 588.6K followers, 961.7K 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 588.6K followers, 61.6K engagements


"@premqnair Sounds like a tweet that cost $20M 👀"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948438443870031977) 2025-07-24 17:41:39 UTC 588.3K followers, 18.3K engagements


"You don't do YC for the money You do it because you'll speed up with peers who are builders you'll reduce your distractions you'll get more customers you'll get a YC partner who is your guide for the life of the co and you increase your chance of product market fit"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1941924274060870035) 2025-07-06 18:16:40 UTC 588.5K followers, 294.6K 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 588.2K followers, 97.7K 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 588.6K followers, 22.4K 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 588.6K followers, 11.7K 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 588.5K followers, 360.2K engagements


"AI is going to make us have to confront our own humanity. We are not merely do-ers of a task. We are more than that"  
![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::11768582.png) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947959526172278937) 2025-07-23 09:58:37 UTC 588.6K followers, 39.2K 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 588.6K followers, 86.2K engagements

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@garrytan "Face recognition AI glasses are a killer app tbh"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-24 17:45:25 UTC 588.6K followers, 83.9K engagements

"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 @garrytan on X 2025-05-04 18:43:35 UTC 588.5K followers, 824.2K engagements

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Our culture needs courage will agency and audacity"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-09 05:37:26 UTC 588.6K followers, 183.8K engagements

"Practical robotics plus intelligence soon to be too cheap to meter What a time to be alive"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-25 11:10:52 UTC 588.6K followers, 12.4K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-14 18:22:52 UTC 588.6K followers, 182K engagements

"America will cease to be exceptional if the worlds best AI researchers cant even be in the country"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-17 02:17:51 UTC 588.6K followers, 102.2K engagements

"Is there a good map-based AI agent app that tells me everything relevant to me and what Im doing nearby to where I am at the moment Especially interesting for travel"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-22 12:29:45 UTC 588.6K followers, 592.7K 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 @garrytan on X 2024-08-14 15:42:19 UTC 588.2K followers, 164.9K engagements

"GPT-7 might unleash a prosperity boom if more people get access to far more intelligence and create more breakthroughs for one another"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-24 21:24:03 UTC 588.6K followers, 24.4K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-10 00:34:25 UTC 588.5K followers, 67.8K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-06-19 14:25:42 UTC 588.5K followers, 758.7K engagements

"The Lesson of Craft. There is a lot technologists and founders can learn from a dedication to the craft of building"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-24 22:36:51 UTC 588.6K followers, 27.5K 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 @garrytan on X 2024-01-16 18:59:30 UTC 588.5K followers, 355.2K engagements

"Elon Musk's formula for success: Ego Ability X When your ego exceeds your ability you break the feedback loop to reality. Smash your ego. Internalize responsibility. Do whatever it takes. The goal isn't gloryit's true work that serves the most people"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-06-21 16:51:09 UTC 588.5K followers, 440.6K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-13 16:48:34 UTC 588.2K followers, 8645 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-21 18:52:48 UTC 588.6K followers, 72.2K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-03-10 13:40:28 UTC 588.5K followers, 1.1M 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-21 17:56:20 UTC 588.1K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-13 16:32:30 UTC 588.5K followers, 542.1K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-18 05:57:55 UTC 588.5K followers, 50K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-21 01:37:28 UTC 588.6K followers, 72.6K engagements

"There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things. Phil Karlton"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-19 23:03:58 UTC 588.6K followers, 141.9K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-02 17:29:30 UTC 588.2K followers, 345.7K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-20 20:24:06 UTC 588.6K followers, 196.1K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-20 17:14:39 UTC 588.5K followers, 6673 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-21 01:17:59 UTC 588.6K followers, 30.3K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-20 16:50:58 UTC 588.6K followers, 51.3K engagements

"VC firms often overpay for aging LeBrons with max deals at the end of their careers when a better strategy is to take as many first round draft picks as you can We work hard to make YC Demo Day into the NBA Draft Lottery"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-01 19:54:05 UTC 588.4K followers, 194.3K engagements

"They funnel money to activists who actively work to make Oakland much worse for the people who live there"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-20 17:11:27 UTC 588.6K followers, 4222 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-20 17:28:18 UTC 588.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Real taste in products is not in the eye of other famous or noteworthy builders Taste is in being able to understand customers or users model them and make choices that delight them and solve problems for them and be right over and over again with incomplete information"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-23 20:44:12 UTC 588.6K followers, 77.2K engagements

"Legalize small business and building housing in San Francisco Vote Connie Chan and her cronies out. They are anti-prosperity and want to destroy our city"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-24 10:16:15 UTC 588.6K followers, 18.8K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-13 18:14:18 UTC 588.6K followers, 526.9K engagements

"An agent who can do work for you is a big big idea"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-23 20:38:00 UTC 588.6K followers, 30K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-17 15:02:10 UTC 588.6K followers, 129.5K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-05-28 04:19:03 UTC 588.6K followers, 2.1M engagements

"What does Mister Market seem to know here"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-18 19:34:03 UTC 588.5K followers, 26.8K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-06-26 22:06:00 UTC 588.6K followers, 228.3K engagements

"Craft is truly caring about what you make. Software or sushi either way it is about absolute dedication to creating something people want. The Lesson of Craft"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-23 15:30:36 UTC 588.6K followers, 34.7K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-06-21 20:22:23 UTC 588.5K followers, 844.1K engagements

"@yrebryk @southpkcommons @ycombinator @HF0Residency @seedcamp @sequoia I think you got #1 wrong"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-04-26 01:18:17 UTC 588.2K followers, XXX 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-16 01:50:07 UTC 588.2K followers, 82.4K 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 @garrytan on X 2023-07-28 04:53:36 UTC 588K followers, 37.3K engagements

"@futureisasi Sony FX3 35mm f1.4 shot wide open natural window light"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-25 01:25:47 UTC 588.6K followers, XXX 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-05 16:44:02 UTC 588.2K followers, 808.5K engagements

"Bottom quartile investing at YC demo day is better than top quartile venture capital investing"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-05-29 04:35:14 UTC 588.6K followers, 376.8K engagements

"Try to be the best version of you Too many young founders are desperate to be someone else"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-17 17:01:08 UTC 588.6K followers, 151.1K engagements

"Startups have to rediscover zero bug bounce Every few sprints get to zero P2 bugs before you start new feature work. Otherwise your product will be a low quality mess forever. One part of great craft is getting to zero known bugs regularly"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-24 21:00:04 UTC 588.6K followers, 109.4K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-06-19 21:20:52 UTC 588.6K followers, 36.3M engagements

"@hackgoofer Varun is a friend but not an investor in Windsurf or Cognition"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-21 00:37:53 UTC 588.6K followers, 20.4K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-17 15:18:16 UTC 588.2K followers, 20.8K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-06-11 15:49:54 UTC 588.6K followers, 973.4K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-20 23:14:13 UTC 588.6K followers, 1.3M 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-13 06:43:55 UTC 588.6K followers, 320.7K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-18 20:03:25 UTC 588.6K followers, 93K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-04-30 00:39:09 UTC 588.6K followers, 961.7K engagements

"Its true: you can do a lot more with much smaller teams and you can go faster and farther than ever"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-19 20:07:00 UTC 588.6K followers, 61.6K engagements

"@premqnair Sounds like a tweet that cost $20M 👀"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-24 17:41:39 UTC 588.3K followers, 18.3K engagements

"You don't do YC for the money You do it because you'll speed up with peers who are builders you'll reduce your distractions you'll get more customers you'll get a YC partner who is your guide for the life of the co and you increase your chance of product market fit"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-06 18:16:40 UTC 588.5K followers, 294.6K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-11 15:31:15 UTC 588.2K followers, 97.7K engagements

"48 Hills should be removed from Google News and Apple News These partisan and deranged blogs are not legitimate news outlets"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-21 17:53:52 UTC 588.6K followers, 22.4K engagements

"I cant believe New York City is about to do this to themselves"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-18 05:26:04 UTC 588.6K followers, 11.7K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-06-13 05:30:24 UTC 588.5K followers, 360.2K engagements

"AI is going to make us have to confront our own humanity. We are not merely do-ers of a task. We are more than that"
@garrytan Avatar @garrytan on X 2025-07-23 09:58:37 UTC 588.6K followers, 39.2K 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 @garrytan on X 2025-07-13 17:53:08 UTC 588.6K followers, 86.2K engagements

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