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# ![@garrytan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::11768582.png) @garrytan Garry Tan

Garry Tan, a prominent figure in the tech industry, has been tweeting about various topics, including his concerns about San Francisco's issues, such as the city's handling of public transportation and crime. He has also been discussing the benefits of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator he is involved with, and the potential of AI technology. Additionally, Tan has expressed frustration with companies like Cloudflare, which he claims blocked AI on a Y Combinator website without permission.

### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::11768582/interactions)
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### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::11768582/followers)
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### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::11768582/influence)
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**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  [vc firms](/list/vc-firms)  #147 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  [social networks](/list/social-networks)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [stocks](/list/stocks)  [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands)  [countries](/list/countries)  [gaming](/list/gaming) 

**Social topic influence**
[tan](/topic/tan) #84, [garry](/topic/garry) #13, [all the](/topic/all-the), [university of](/topic/university-of) #873, [demo](/topic/demo), [money](/topic/money), [faster](/topic/faster), [zohran](/topic/zohran), [mamdani](/topic/mamdani), [zohran mamdani](/topic/zohran-mamdani)

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@ycombinator](/creator/undefined) [@paulg](/creator/undefined) [@growsf](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@susandreynolds](/creator/undefined) [@daniellurie](/creator/undefined) [@twolfrecovery](/creator/undefined) [@basedbeffjezos](/creator/undefined) [@mattdorsey](/creator/undefined) [@a16z](/creator/undefined) [@sama](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@brookejenkinssf](/creator/undefined) [@aaronpeskin](/creator/undefined) [@omararizona](/creator/undefined) [@initialized](/creator/undefined) [@jesslivingston](/creator/undefined) [@bchesky](/creator/undefined) [@rburton](/creator/undefined) [@londonbreed](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::11768582/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Lets make West Coast YIMBY rap a thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1979427427949727939) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-18T06:00Z 614.3K followers, 24K 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1944286650579963914) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-07-13T06:43Z 614.3K followers, 324.1K engagements


"NYC about to do the hard left doom loop thing Yall didnt learn a thing from SF did you The innocent will receive no justice the public school children will receive a far worse education and housing will become far more expensive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1973006926561861976) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-09-30T12:48Z 614.3K followers, 860.6K engagements


"Exa is the #1 way AI agents do web search and it's not close"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1976752891169030515) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-10T20:53Z 614.3K followers, 184.7K engagements


"You can just prompt things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1976788526143545628) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-10T23:14Z 614.3K followers, 368.4K engagements


"Did you know the University of California system still bans even the optional submission of your SAT/ACT scores for college admissions UC schools have been test-free since 2021 even though almost every other top tier school has rolled back its test-optional policy. Deranged"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1978125791037644950) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-14T15:48Z 614.3K followers, 130.2K engagements


"SF is on the way to resurgence and there is a lot more to be done but Mayor Lurie and DA Jenkins are doing the work. Let them cook. Federal involvement is appreciated but for now in SF National Guard troops are best deployed where they are truly needed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1980295773494608278) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-20T15:31Z 614.3K followers, 73.5K engagements


"Prompting and evals will be everything Prompting is agency Evals is taste"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1980667660313711092) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-21T16:09Z 614.3K followers, 197.7K engagements


"Two years ago Pavel Durov explained to Wired he lived an itinerant lifestyle and even chose not to base Telegram in London because of fear over being forced to hand over encryption keys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1827900228411818480) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2024-08-26T02:45Z 614K followers, 100.9K engagements


"@yrebryk @southpkcommons @ycombinator @HF0Residency @seedcamp @sequoia I think you got #1 wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1915938449213034589) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-04-26T01:18Z 613.8K followers, 1091 engagements


"If you spot these strategies inside your organization time to make some changes right away"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1953836015116070990) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-08-08T15:09Z 613.9K followers, 35.9K engagements


"@peggy_wang Let me say if you are coming after Peggy and verbally abusive and disrespectful I am watching. Its not OK and there will be consequences"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1971759580762997103) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-09-27T02:11Z 613.9K followers, 601.8K engagements


"Is there an LLM-powered AI text formatter that is the best in the world Most chat UIs seem to lose bold/formatting etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1976695101075378180) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-10T17:03Z 614K followers, 71.6K engagements


"Critics hated Tron Ares but I think a lot of tech ppl will enjoy it because it covers AI in a thought provoking relatable way It's a crowd pleaser. Also when was the last time you actually had fun at a "critically acclaimed" movie TBH Hollywood needs to learn what tech did which is you should go direct (ignore the critics)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1976715502186861008) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-10T18:24Z 613.7K followers, 71.7K engagements


"Seems inevitable that as AI becomes more powerful the silos will want to close their access. Useful AI agents who do the will of legitimate users are already being blocked routinely (e.g. have to use Gemini to search YouTube have to use to search X) Prediction: We're going to need open markets and open data access regulation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1977539251366760675) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-13T00:57Z 613.8K followers, 118.8K engagements


"Brian Chesky says great leadership is presence not absence Someone has to be all the way into the details to make a product as potentially great as Meta's Ray Ban displays actually great"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1977541048474927456) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-13T01:05Z 613.9K followers, 128.5K engagements


"We are so back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1977935385830547762) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-14T03:11Z 613.7K followers, 68.6K engagements


"UC schools have been test-free since 2021 even though almost every other top tier school has rolled back its test-optional policy. When will University of California turn back from this institution-destroying practice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1978187709169401956) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-14T19:54Z 614.1K followers, 39.2K engagements


"Probably should have come to YC Demo Day instead Many an unconnected investor found many unicorns and high output teams that they never would have had access to otherwise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1978623037655167192) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-16T00:44Z 613.7K followers, 91.4K engagements


"What might it look like for an LLM to be able to do codegen with taste This"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1978906898519711931) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-16T19:32Z 613.7K followers, 29.5K engagements


"New YC batches of the last XX years have a unicorn rate of X% to 12%"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1953069914132238775) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-08-06T12:25Z 614.1K followers, 367.8K engagements


"Abundance done right is building housing bringing back American manufacturing and creating jobs Everything else is NIMBY anti-people anti-jobs BS that weakens California and America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1978340369143042105) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-15T06:01Z 614.2K followers, 46.3K engagements


"Check the metrics do we pivot or quit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1978997674159341698) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-17T01:33Z 614.1K followers, 23.4K engagements


"@darrowoah @rburton @paulg @ycombinator It was a spin out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1979985483083194852) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-19T18:58Z 614.1K followers, XX engagements


"Tech gave me everything I have Its capacity to lift people into abundance is incredible and there is nothing like it We must make that into prosperity for everyone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1690019429965537281) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2023-08-11T15:16Z 614.3K followers, 3M 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1919100609850184001) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-05-04T18:43Z 614.2K followers, 824.9K engagements


"Request for startup"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1969258625181872203) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-09-20T04:33Z 614.3K followers, 779.5K engagements


"YC General Partner Andrew Miklas (@amiklas) firesiding Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) tonight. Two who have done it - both created startups generating X figures/yr in rev and counting. The best people in the world to teach the next generation how to do it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1972887053135413513) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-09-30T04:51Z 614.3K followers, 534.1K engagements


"Is this product market fit or playing startup THE MUSICAL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1974883296518803568) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-05T17:04Z 614.3K followers, 32.9K engagements


"We dont need the National Guard We need new judges who are not hardcore Chesa Boudin-style activists who work to keep drug dealers out of jail even though the police the district atttorney and the people of SF want them locked up Its shockingly that simple in SF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1977028213961634173) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-11T15:07Z 614.3K followers, 606.7K engagements


"FWIW here's what's happening in SF post-Chesa Boudin recall with DA Brooke Jenkins and Mayor Daniel Lurie coming into power - Crime down nearly XX% citywide and down XX% in Union Square and Financial District - Number of tents on our streets at record lows - Net gain in police officers for the first time in X years and sheriffs deputies for the first time in XX years - Convention bookings are up XX% with associated hotel bookings up XX% - Tourism is coming back - Office vacancies down XXX% in Q3 The two things that really need to happen: For homelessness/drug abuse: Reform Prop C dismantle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1977540561218490565) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-13T01:03Z 614.3K followers, 19.6K engagements


"I guess me and @diplo are two of the new faces you can make Cameo videos with on Sora app"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1977938515465023965) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-14T03:24Z 614.3K followers, 25.8K engagements


"Huge congrats to Reducto (YC W24) - less than X years to 1B pages processed - incredible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1978201842023854404) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-14T20:50Z 614.3K followers, 120.3K engagements


"So youre telling me the way to stop election rigging is MORE election rigging 🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1978482497710375150) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-15T15:26Z 614.3K followers, 80.3K engagements


"Banger post"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1978600545310200235) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-15T23:15Z 614.3K followers, 171.2K engagements


"The electrical cost is small compared to the potential economic benefits. $X of electricity can create $10000 worth of economic value in the form of intelligence used to do something better faster cheaper ultimately benefiting a consumer Add clean energy and nuclear and this is a solved problem. ABUNDANCE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1978897489370517823) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-16T18:55Z 614.3K followers, 68.4K engagements


"I actually think this would be amazing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1980389139372732660) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-20T21:42Z 614.3K followers, 92.1K engagements


"Real market alpha isnt loud confidence; its the capacity to stay in contact with fear long enough to read the signal instead of flinching from it. The market punishes comfort. The founders and investors who separate themselves are the ones who can distinguish this feels dangerous because its stupid from this feels dangerous because it will rewire my map"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1980662737157124389) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-21T15:49Z 614.3K followers, 36.5K 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1747332766583422993) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2024-01-16T18:59Z 614.3K followers, 355.5K engagements


"I will accept most helpful but will have to discuss this without an ego thing with my therapist later"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1869619558576959566) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2024-12-19T05:43Z 614.3K followers, 60.8K engagements


"Protect gifted and talented Protect AP classes Protect Algebra and advanced math Protect personalized and accelerated education at the dawn of AI the perfect tech to improve education of every child at every level"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1977077012931150255) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-11T18:21Z 614.3K followers, 51.1K engagements


"Y Combinator has X new alums to work with us to find fund and advise tomorrow's best founders I am blown away at how smart talented giving and experienced this set of all-star people are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1978188081686577221) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-14T19:56Z 614.3K followers, 196.5K engagements


"New sauna but the haters are not invited"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1978296222873014304) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-15T03:05Z 614.3K followers, 257.5K engagements


"At what point is this consulting considered stealing from the people of San Francisco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1978508466495832202) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-15T17:09Z 614.3K followers, 91.9K engagements


"Better to be about the work than the money and the status The work will always be there and it will never fail: There is always more to do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1978851980337385507) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-16T15:54Z 614.3K followers, 41.3K engagements


"$15M in X months is truly mindblowing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1978884154948489610) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-16T18:02Z 614.3K followers, 453.9K engagements


"Just be yourself You are not doomed to second album syndrome"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1978893789943971931) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-16T18:40Z 614.3K followers, 37.3K engagements


"If youre a founder going through something dont stop Go faster"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1978907149292982758) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-16T19:33Z 614.3K followers, 153.7K engagements


"YIMBY bars with @Noahpinion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1979356361160036760) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-18T01:18Z 614.3K followers, 36.6K engagements


"My previous post with specific policy and stats on the path forward for a beautiful safe and vibrant San Francisco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1980296177485779381) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-20T15:32Z 614.3K followers, 15.4K engagements


"Welcome back to YC @sama Thanks for sharing your wisdom with the newest batch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1980510871093997686) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-21T05:46Z 614.3K followers, 112.7K engagements


"Need this to control my kids Roblox addiction *long sigh*"  
[X Link](https://x.com/garrytan/status/1980687534805119021) [@garrytan](/creator/x/garrytan) 2025-10-21T17:28Z 614.3K followers, 37.6K engagements