[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 Garry Tan Garry Tan, a prominent figure in the tech industry, has been vocal about his concerns regarding the impact of certain policies and politicians on the tech industry and society. He has been critical of socialist policies and politicians, such as Zohran Mamdani, a NYC mayoral hopeful, who he believes would harm the tech industry and Asian American communities. Tan has also emphasized the importance of creating value and prosperity, and encouraging people to build meaningful things that benefit society. ### Engagements: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::11768582/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXXXX +126% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +25% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::11768582/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XXX +32% - X Months XXX +58% - X Year XXXXX +20% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::11768582/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.37% - X Month XXXXXXX +2.50% - X Months XXXXXXX +15% - X Year XXXXXXX +29% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::11768582/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::11768582/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) #2399 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [stocks](/list/stocks) [countries](/list/countries) [vc firms](/list/vc-firms) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) **Social topic influence** [all the](/topic/all-the) #2632, [$googl](/topic/$googl) #535, [money](/topic/money) #3858, [windsurf](/topic/windsurf) #1, [told](/topic/told) #322, [grift](/topic/grift), [y combinator](/topic/y-combinator), [hills](/topic/hills) #95, [the worlds](/topic/the-worlds), [billionaires](/topic/billionaires) **Top assets mentioned** [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Solana (SOL)](/topic/solana) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::11768582/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Thanks to Dalton Caldwell and Paul Buchheit. Excited for their new VC fund"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1933234786560262447) 2025-06-12 18:47:45 UTC 587.3K followers, 45.6K 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 587.2K followers, 2.1M 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945865643451982059) 2025-07-17 15:18:16 UTC 587.1K followers, 20.7K 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 587.3K followers, 949.3K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1885746126160372118) 2025-02-01 17:44:46 UTC 586.6K followers, 383.5K 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 587.3K followers, 1.1M 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 587.3K followers, 11.5K 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 587.3K followers, 85.8K engagements "@nizzyabi I guess it just depends Having good people who have been there in your corner is useful for figuring it out"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944438818746388708) 2025-07-13 16:48:34 UTC 586.9K followers, 8626 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947354972607348912) 2025-07-21 17:56:20 UTC 587.3K followers, XXX 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 587.3K followers, 128.7K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1941538571804082262) 2025-07-05 16:44:02 UTC 587.3K followers, 808.3K 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 587.3K followers, 638.9K engagements "Reputation is one of the most under-appreciated things that compound in tech"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1943709549179064704) 2025-07-11 16:30:43 UTC 586.7K followers, 77.6K 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 587.3K followers, 101.6K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1899092996702048709) 2025-03-10 13:40:28 UTC 587.3K followers, 1.1M 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 587.3K followers, 49.6K 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 587.3K followers, 26K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945881780327944382) 2025-07-17 16:22:23 UTC 587.3K followers, 47K 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 587.3K followers, 183.5K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945295079071211811) 2025-07-16 01:31:03 UTC 587.3K followers, 101.9K 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 587.3K followers, 228K 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 587.3K followers, 843.8K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945631801374118285) 2025-07-16 23:49:04 UTC 587.1K followers, 37K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1929596997834801584) 2025-06-02 17:52:29 UTC 586.7K followers, 536.2K 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 587K followers, 824.1K 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 587.3K followers, 181K 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 587.3K followers, 67.6K 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 587.3K followers, 141.1K 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 587.3K followers, 319.2K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1823746986777948284) 2024-08-14 15:42:19 UTC 587.2K followers, 164.8K 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 587.3K followers, 147.2K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1941492240393830598) 2025-07-05 13:39:55 UTC 586.7K followers, 143.7K 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 587.2K followers, 376.5K 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 587K followers, 60K engagements "During the height of the Chesa Boudin recall campaign KQED gave him a solo softball platform on stage to defend his record"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946985528844603499) 2025-07-20 17:28:17 UTC 587.3K followers, XXX 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 587.3K followers, 34.6K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1940462850981744865) 2025-07-02 17:29:30 UTC 587.3K followers, 345.6K 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 587.3K followers, 60.6K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947108635949379667) 2025-07-21 01:37:28 UTC 587.3K followers, 62.1K 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 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944460390278332722) 2025-07-13 18:14:18 UTC 587.3K followers, 526.5K 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 587.3K followers, 14.6K 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 587.3K followers, 124.2K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946982097555468322) 2025-07-20 17:14:39 UTC 587.3K followers, 6322 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 587.3K followers, 150.2K 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 587.2K followers, 972.9K 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 587.3K followers, 92.5K engagements "Might be a little extreme but it would get results"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946058589241823272) 2025-07-18 04:04:58 UTC 587K followers, 39.9K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1747332766583422993) 2024-01-16 18:59:30 UTC 586.7K followers, 355.2K engagements "@chadwahl @ycombinator Personal ontology needed Apple Notes just not cutting it"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944435001942278509) 2025-07-13 16:33:24 UTC 587.3K followers, 6309 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 587.3K followers, 541.6K 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 587.3K followers, 46.1K engagements "@Widdrat Bunch of YC rejects clout chasing"  [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946207672392409489) 2025-07-18 13:57:22 UTC 586.7K followers, XXX 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1941015807045361761) 2025-07-04 06:06:45 UTC 587.3K followers, 199.5K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1684789177999847424) 2023-07-28 04:53:36 UTC 587.3K followers, 37.3K 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 587.3K followers, 17.1K 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 587.3K followers, 36.3M 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1238506698924408832) 2020-03-13 16:46:22 UTC 586.8K followers, XX 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1940474344758825065) 2025-07-02 18:15:10 UTC 586.7K followers, 358.7K 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 587.3K followers, 3786 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1943325847576023520) 2025-07-10 15:06:01 UTC 586.7K followers, 139.8K 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 587.3K followers, 97.4K 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 587.2K followers, 360K 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 587.3K followers, 758.2K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945299879972028903) 2025-07-16 01:50:07 UTC 587.3K followers, 82.3K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944845356648599947) 2025-07-14 19:44:01 UTC 586.7K followers, 38.8K 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](/creator/x/garrytan) on [X](/post/tweet/1943470315528683873) 2025-07-11 00:40:05 UTC 587.3K followers, 196.5K engagements
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Garry Tan, a prominent figure in the tech industry, has been vocal about his concerns regarding the impact of certain policies and politicians on the tech industry and society. He has been critical of socialist policies and politicians, such as Zohran Mamdani, a NYC mayoral hopeful, who he believes would harm the tech industry and Asian American communities. Tan has also emphasized the importance of creating value and prosperity, and encouraging people to build meaningful things that benefit society.
Social category influence finance #2399 technology brands stocks countries vc firms celebrities cryptocurrencies travel destinations fashion brands
Social topic influence all the #2632, $googl #535, money #3858, windsurf #1, told #322, grift, y combinator, hills #95, the worlds, billionaires
Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Solana (SOL)
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Thanks to Dalton Caldwell and Paul Buchheit. Excited for their new VC fund" @garrytan on X 2025-06-12 18:47:45 UTC 587.3K followers, 45.6K 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 587.2K followers, 2.1M 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 on X 2025-07-17 15:18:16 UTC 587.1K followers, 20.7K 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 587.3K followers, 949.3K 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 on X 2025-02-01 17:44:46 UTC 586.6K followers, 383.5K 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 587.3K followers, 1.1M engagements
"I cant believe New York City is about to do this to themselves" @garrytan on X 2025-07-18 05:26:04 UTC 587.3K followers, 11.5K 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 587.3K followers, 85.8K engagements
"@nizzyabi I guess it just depends Having good people who have been there in your corner is useful for figuring it out" @garrytan on X 2025-07-13 16:48:34 UTC 586.9K followers, 8626 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 on X 2025-07-21 17:56:20 UTC 587.3K followers, XXX 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 587.3K followers, 128.7K 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 on X 2025-07-05 16:44:02 UTC 587.3K followers, 808.3K 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 587.3K followers, 638.9K engagements
"Reputation is one of the most under-appreciated things that compound in tech" @garrytan on X 2025-07-11 16:30:43 UTC 586.7K followers, 77.6K 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 587.3K followers, 101.6K 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 on X 2025-03-10 13:40:28 UTC 587.3K followers, 1.1M 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 587.3K followers, 49.6K 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 587.3K followers, 26K 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 on X 2025-07-17 16:22:23 UTC 587.3K followers, 47K engagements
"Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Our culture needs courage will agency and audacity" @garrytan on X 2025-07-09 05:37:26 UTC 587.3K followers, 183.5K 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 on X 2025-07-16 01:31:03 UTC 587.3K followers, 101.9K 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 587.3K followers, 228K 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 587.3K followers, 843.8K 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 on X 2025-07-16 23:49:04 UTC 587.1K followers, 37K 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 on X 2025-06-02 17:52:29 UTC 586.7K followers, 536.2K 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 587K followers, 824.1K 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 587.3K followers, 181K 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 587.3K followers, 67.6K 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 587.3K followers, 141.1K 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 587.3K followers, 319.2K 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 on X 2024-08-14 15:42:19 UTC 587.2K followers, 164.8K 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 587.3K followers, 147.2K 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 on X 2025-07-05 13:39:55 UTC 586.7K followers, 143.7K 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 587.2K followers, 376.5K 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 587K followers, 60K engagements
"During the height of the Chesa Boudin recall campaign KQED gave him a solo softball platform on stage to defend his record" @garrytan on X 2025-07-20 17:28:17 UTC 587.3K followers, XXX 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 587.3K followers, 34.6K 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 on X 2025-07-02 17:29:30 UTC 587.3K followers, 345.6K 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 587.3K followers, 60.6K 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 on X 2025-07-21 01:37:28 UTC 587.3K followers, 62.1K 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 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 on X 2025-07-13 18:14:18 UTC 587.3K followers, 526.5K 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 587.3K followers, 14.6K 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 587.3K followers, 124.2K 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 on X 2025-07-20 17:14:39 UTC 587.3K followers, 6322 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 587.3K followers, 150.2K 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 587.2K followers, 972.9K 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 587.3K followers, 92.5K engagements
"Might be a little extreme but it would get results" @garrytan on X 2025-07-18 04:04:58 UTC 587K followers, 39.9K 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 on X 2024-01-16 18:59:30 UTC 586.7K followers, 355.2K engagements
"@chadwahl @ycombinator Personal ontology needed Apple Notes just not cutting it" @garrytan on X 2025-07-13 16:33:24 UTC 587.3K followers, 6309 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 587.3K followers, 541.6K 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 587.3K followers, 46.1K engagements
"@Widdrat Bunch of YC rejects clout chasing" @garrytan on X 2025-07-18 13:57:22 UTC 586.7K followers, XXX 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 on X 2025-07-04 06:06:45 UTC 587.3K followers, 199.5K 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 on X 2023-07-28 04:53:36 UTC 587.3K followers, 37.3K engagements
"@hackgoofer Varun is a friend but not an investor in Windsurf or Cognition" @garrytan on X 2025-07-21 00:37:53 UTC 587.3K followers, 17.1K 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 587.3K followers, 36.3M 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 on X 2020-03-13 16:46:22 UTC 586.8K followers, XX 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 on X 2025-07-02 18:15:10 UTC 586.7K followers, 358.7K 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 587.3K followers, 3786 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 on X 2025-07-10 15:06:01 UTC 586.7K followers, 139.8K 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 587.3K followers, 97.4K 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 587.2K followers, 360K 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 587.3K followers, 758.2K 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 on X 2025-07-16 01:50:07 UTC 587.3K followers, 82.3K 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 on X 2025-07-14 19:44:01 UTC 586.7K followers, 38.8K 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 on X 2025-07-11 00:40:05 UTC 587.3K followers, 196.5K engagements
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