[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) "Face recognition AI glasses are a killer app tbh"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948439389488517581) 2025-07-24 17:45:25 UTC 589.1K followers, 85K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1919100609850184001) 2025-05-04 18:43:35 UTC 588.5K followers, 824.2K engagements "How long before people intentionally put in typos to make sure people believe an LLM didnt write a thing"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948869721715057122) 2025-07-25 22:15:24 UTC 589.1K followers, 332.5K engagements "Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Our culture needs courage will agency and audacity"  [@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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948702485339590725) 2025-07-25 11:10:52 UTC 589.1K followers, 34.6K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944824936922558938) 2025-07-14 18:22:52 UTC 589.1K followers, 182.2K engagements "America will cease to be exceptional if the worlds best AI researchers cant even be in the country"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945669245318348822) 2025-07-17 02:17:51 UTC 589K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947635174633820260) 2025-07-22 12:29:45 UTC 589.1K followers, 593.5K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948494409294553561) 2025-07-24 21:24:03 UTC 589.1K followers, 28.6K 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](/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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1935705553055236353) 2025-06-19 14:25:42 UTC 588.9K followers, 758.8K engagements "Apple Screen Time functionality is so inconsistent and buggy it feels like the team is run by people who dont even have kids"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1949092651929575504) 2025-07-26 13:01:15 UTC 589.1K followers, 14.6K engagements "The Lesson of Craft. There is a lot technologists and founders can learn from a dedication to the craft of building"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948512732703326377) 2025-07-24 22:36:51 UTC 589.1K followers, 33.8K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1747332766583422993) 2024-01-16 18:59:30 UTC 588.8K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1936466932330324165) 2025-06-21 16:51:09 UTC 589K followers, 440.7K engagements "This is awkward to say but might be true I think it might be time to bring back Clippy guys"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1885113098195132487) 2025-01-30 23:49:20 UTC 588.9K followers, 479K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947369184926830853) 2025-07-21 18:52:48 UTC 589.1K followers, 72.3K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1899092996702048709) 2025-03-10 13:40:28 UTC 589K followers, 1.1M 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944434773600182607) 2025-07-13 16:32:30 UTC 589.1K followers, 542.2K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946087014496887141) 2025-07-18 05:57:55 UTC 588.6K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947108635949379667) 2025-07-21 01:37:28 UTC 589.1K followers, 73K engagements "There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things. Phil Karlton"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946707615901528470) 2025-07-19 23:03:58 UTC 589.1K followers, 142K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947029771789251028) 2025-07-20 20:24:06 UTC 589.1K followers, 196.8K 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](/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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947103731843252235) 2025-07-21 01:17:59 UTC 589.1K followers, 30.5K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946976136891605443) 2025-07-20 16:50:58 UTC 589.1K followers, 51.4K engagements "Build housing Its that simple Otherwise they will really drive tech out of the Bay Area"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948788458249404750) 2025-07-25 16:52:29 UTC 589.1K followers, 37.5K 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](/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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946981290869248432) 2025-07-20 17:11:27 UTC 588.7K followers, 4233 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946985532032254423) 2025-07-20 17:28:18 UTC 588.8K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948121993401782672) 2025-07-23 20:44:12 UTC 589.1K followers, 78.7K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948326353088004490) 2025-07-24 10:16:15 UTC 589.1K followers, 19.3K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944460390278332722) 2025-07-13 18:14:18 UTC 589.1K followers, 527K engagements "An agent who can do work for you is a big big idea"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948120434378998051) 2025-07-23 20:38:00 UTC 589.1K followers, 30.8K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945861591872016497) 2025-07-17 15:02:10 UTC 588.6K followers, 129.6K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1927580354581524880) 2025-05-28 04:19:03 UTC 589.1K followers, 2.1M engagements "What does Mister Market seem to know here"  [@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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1938358109770330486) 2025-06-26 22:06:00 UTC 589K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948043075214819565) 2025-07-23 15:30:36 UTC 589.1K followers, 35.6K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1936520092008714653) 2025-06-21 20:22:23 UTC 589K followers, 844.3K engagements "@futureisasi Sony FX3 35mm f1.4 shot wide open natural window light"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948555246026027495) 2025-07-25 01:25:47 UTC 589.1K followers, XXX engagements "Bottom quartile investing at YC demo day is better than top quartile venture capital investing"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1927946812364574912) 2025-05-29 04:35:14 UTC 589K followers, 376.9K engagements "Try to be the best version of you Too many young founders are desperate to be someone else"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945891531719864805) 2025-07-17 17:01:08 UTC 589K followers, 151.2K engagements "@Widdrat Bunch of YC rejects clout chasing"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946207672392409489) 2025-07-18 13:57:22 UTC 588.6K followers, XXX 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948488376870375571) 2025-07-24 21:00:04 UTC 589.1K followers, 270.4K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1935810032819736715) 2025-06-19 21:20:52 UTC 589K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945546756688642258) 2025-07-16 18:11:07 UTC 589.1K followers, 60.2K engagements "@hackgoofer Varun is a friend but not an investor in Windsurf or Cognition"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947093638837829890) 2025-07-21 00:37:53 UTC 589.1K followers, 20.7K engagements "@deedydas Build more housing It always just comes back to housing cost Everything about cost of living sucks when housing cost is always going up We need to build supply and stop subsidizing demand"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948788310911951272) 2025-07-25 16:51:54 UTC 589.1K followers, 9262 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1932827640131354947) 2025-06-11 15:49:54 UTC 589.1K followers, 973.5K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947072583092052406) 2025-07-20 23:14:13 UTC 589.1K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944286650579963914) 2025-07-13 06:43:55 UTC 589.1K followers, 320.9K engagements "You know you can just ask the agent about code and to teach you things you dont understand about it right"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1916309944649011655) 2025-04-27 01:54:28 UTC 589K followers, 456.8K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946299793547882839) 2025-07-18 20:03:25 UTC 589K followers, 93.1K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1917378154982957372) 2025-04-30 00:39:09 UTC 589K followers, 965.9K engagements "Its true: you can do a lot more with much smaller teams and you can go faster and farther than ever"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946663080470904977) 2025-07-19 20:07:00 UTC 589.1K followers, 61.6K engagements "@premqnair Sounds like a tweet that cost $20M 👀"  [@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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1941924274060870035) 2025-07-06 18:16:40 UTC 589.1K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1943694581943460217) 2025-07-11 15:31:15 UTC 588.2K followers, 97.7K engagements "But if you use the real emdash people on X accuse you of using LLMs Man you just cant win"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948765071997280753) 2025-07-25 15:19:34 UTC 589.1K followers, 23.8K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1931366584628531543) 2025-06-07 15:04:11 UTC 589K followers, 639.2K engagements "48 Hills should be removed from Google News and Apple News These partisan and deranged blogs are not legitimate news outlets"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947354351221280856) 2025-07-21 17:53:52 UTC 588.8K followers, 22.4K engagements "I cant believe New York City is about to do this to themselves"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946078997571666422) 2025-07-18 05:26:04 UTC 589K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1933396514984112438) 2025-06-13 05:30:24 UTC 589K followers, 360.4K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947959526172278937) 2025-07-23 09:58:37 UTC 589.1K followers, 39.3K engagements "San Francisco spends more than $185M/year on permanent supportive housing which *mandates* residents are allowed to do drugs In 2025 OD deaths are on pace for XXX by years end up XX% over 2024 The chart shows how SF pays people to do drugs in the housing until they die"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1939736744506847309) 2025-06-30 17:24:13 UTC 588.9K followers, 57.1K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944763878111625475) 2025-07-14 14:20:15 UTC 588.7K followers, 124.5K engagements "@ramahluwalia I lean putting in obvious typos like the one in this reply"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948870116881408223) 2025-07-25 22:16:58 UTC 589.1K followers, 11.9K engagements "yachty says you need to put your stuff out there you never know who's watching you have dreams put it out"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944455064841859357) 2025-07-13 17:53:08 UTC 588.8K followers, 86.2K engagements
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"Face recognition AI glasses are a killer app tbh"
@garrytan on X 2025-07-24 17:45:25 UTC 589.1K followers, 85K 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 on X 2025-05-04 18:43:35 UTC 588.5K followers, 824.2K engagements
"How long before people intentionally put in typos to make sure people believe an LLM didnt write a thing" @garrytan on X 2025-07-25 22:15:24 UTC 589.1K followers, 332.5K engagements
"Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Our culture needs courage will agency and audacity" @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 on X 2025-07-25 11:10:52 UTC 589.1K followers, 34.6K 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 on X 2025-07-14 18:22:52 UTC 589.1K followers, 182.2K engagements
"America will cease to be exceptional if the worlds best AI researchers cant even be in the country" @garrytan on X 2025-07-17 02:17:51 UTC 589K 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 on X 2025-07-22 12:29:45 UTC 589.1K followers, 593.5K 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 on X 2025-07-24 21:24:03 UTC 589.1K followers, 28.6K 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 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 on X 2025-06-19 14:25:42 UTC 588.9K followers, 758.8K engagements
"Apple Screen Time functionality is so inconsistent and buggy it feels like the team is run by people who dont even have kids" @garrytan on X 2025-07-26 13:01:15 UTC 589.1K followers, 14.6K engagements
"The Lesson of Craft. There is a lot technologists and founders can learn from a dedication to the craft of building" @garrytan on X 2025-07-24 22:36:51 UTC 589.1K followers, 33.8K 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 on X 2024-01-16 18:59:30 UTC 588.8K 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 on X 2025-06-21 16:51:09 UTC 589K followers, 440.7K engagements
"This is awkward to say but might be true I think it might be time to bring back Clippy guys" @garrytan on X 2025-01-30 23:49:20 UTC 588.9K followers, 479K 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 on X 2025-07-21 18:52:48 UTC 589.1K followers, 72.3K 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 on X 2025-03-10 13:40:28 UTC 589K followers, 1.1M 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 on X 2025-07-13 16:32:30 UTC 589.1K followers, 542.2K 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 on X 2025-07-18 05:57:55 UTC 588.6K 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 on X 2025-07-21 01:37:28 UTC 589.1K followers, 73K engagements
"There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things. Phil Karlton" @garrytan on X 2025-07-19 23:03:58 UTC 589.1K followers, 142K 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 on X 2025-07-20 20:24:06 UTC 589.1K followers, 196.8K 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 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 on X 2025-07-21 01:17:59 UTC 589.1K followers, 30.5K 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 on X 2025-07-20 16:50:58 UTC 589.1K followers, 51.4K engagements
"Build housing Its that simple Otherwise they will really drive tech out of the Bay Area" @garrytan on X 2025-07-25 16:52:29 UTC 589.1K followers, 37.5K 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 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 on X 2025-07-20 17:11:27 UTC 588.7K followers, 4233 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 on X 2025-07-20 17:28:18 UTC 588.8K 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 on X 2025-07-23 20:44:12 UTC 589.1K followers, 78.7K 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 on X 2025-07-24 10:16:15 UTC 589.1K followers, 19.3K 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 on X 2025-07-13 18:14:18 UTC 589.1K followers, 527K engagements
"An agent who can do work for you is a big big idea" @garrytan on X 2025-07-23 20:38:00 UTC 589.1K followers, 30.8K 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 on X 2025-07-17 15:02:10 UTC 588.6K followers, 129.6K 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 on X 2025-05-28 04:19:03 UTC 589.1K followers, 2.1M engagements
"What does Mister Market seem to know here" @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 on X 2025-06-26 22:06:00 UTC 589K 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 on X 2025-07-23 15:30:36 UTC 589.1K followers, 35.6K 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 on X 2025-06-21 20:22:23 UTC 589K followers, 844.3K engagements
"@futureisasi Sony FX3 35mm f1.4 shot wide open natural window light" @garrytan on X 2025-07-25 01:25:47 UTC 589.1K followers, XXX engagements
"Bottom quartile investing at YC demo day is better than top quartile venture capital investing" @garrytan on X 2025-05-29 04:35:14 UTC 589K followers, 376.9K engagements
"Try to be the best version of you Too many young founders are desperate to be someone else" @garrytan on X 2025-07-17 17:01:08 UTC 589K followers, 151.2K engagements
"@Widdrat Bunch of YC rejects clout chasing" @garrytan on X 2025-07-18 13:57:22 UTC 588.6K followers, XXX 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 on X 2025-07-24 21:00:04 UTC 589.1K followers, 270.4K 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 on X 2025-06-19 21:20:52 UTC 589K 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 on X 2025-07-16 18:11:07 UTC 589.1K followers, 60.2K engagements
"@hackgoofer Varun is a friend but not an investor in Windsurf or Cognition" @garrytan on X 2025-07-21 00:37:53 UTC 589.1K followers, 20.7K engagements
"@deedydas Build more housing It always just comes back to housing cost Everything about cost of living sucks when housing cost is always going up We need to build supply and stop subsidizing demand" @garrytan on X 2025-07-25 16:51:54 UTC 589.1K followers, 9262 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 on X 2025-06-11 15:49:54 UTC 589.1K followers, 973.5K 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 on X 2025-07-20 23:14:13 UTC 589.1K 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 on X 2025-07-13 06:43:55 UTC 589.1K followers, 320.9K engagements
"You know you can just ask the agent about code and to teach you things you dont understand about it right" @garrytan on X 2025-04-27 01:54:28 UTC 589K followers, 456.8K 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 on X 2025-07-18 20:03:25 UTC 589K followers, 93.1K 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 on X 2025-04-30 00:39:09 UTC 589K followers, 965.9K engagements
"Its true: you can do a lot more with much smaller teams and you can go faster and farther than ever" @garrytan on X 2025-07-19 20:07:00 UTC 589.1K followers, 61.6K engagements
"@premqnair Sounds like a tweet that cost $20M 👀" @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 on X 2025-07-06 18:16:40 UTC 589.1K 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 on X 2025-07-11 15:31:15 UTC 588.2K followers, 97.7K engagements
"But if you use the real emdash people on X accuse you of using LLMs Man you just cant win" @garrytan on X 2025-07-25 15:19:34 UTC 589.1K followers, 23.8K 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 on X 2025-06-07 15:04:11 UTC 589K followers, 639.2K engagements
"48 Hills should be removed from Google News and Apple News These partisan and deranged blogs are not legitimate news outlets" @garrytan on X 2025-07-21 17:53:52 UTC 588.8K followers, 22.4K engagements
"I cant believe New York City is about to do this to themselves" @garrytan on X 2025-07-18 05:26:04 UTC 589K 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 on X 2025-06-13 05:30:24 UTC 589K followers, 360.4K 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 on X 2025-07-23 09:58:37 UTC 589.1K followers, 39.3K engagements
"San Francisco spends more than $185M/year on permanent supportive housing which mandates residents are allowed to do drugs In 2025 OD deaths are on pace for XXX by years end up XX% over 2024 The chart shows how SF pays people to do drugs in the housing until they die" @garrytan on X 2025-06-30 17:24:13 UTC 588.9K followers, 57.1K 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 on X 2025-07-14 14:20:15 UTC 588.7K followers, 124.5K engagements
"@ramahluwalia I lean putting in obvious typos like the one in this reply" @garrytan on X 2025-07-25 22:16:58 UTC 589.1K followers, 11.9K engagements
"yachty says you need to put your stuff out there you never know who's watching you have dreams put it out" @garrytan on X 2025-07-13 17:53:08 UTC 588.8K followers, 86.2K engagements