Garry Tan (@garrytan) started following @mpopv on Sep 22, 2024

On the Talk Tuah podcast, Hailey sat down with controversial political commentator Han Solo, where he shared his surprising take on the frozen-carbonite-plunge wellness craze. “I actually freeze myself for 30 minutes a day now. Boba hooked me up with a home freezing chamber” https://t.co/k4RD6Wp3ku

They also sell a ‘Roll of Benjies’ for only $3.99, if you don’t want to use a real hundred dollar bill as your inhalation vehicle https://t.co/2DgNT50UJY

☀️ Rise and shine ☀️

It's a bad day to be a Lego https://t.co/nCGQsTl8fb

Hawk Tuah recently went viral for her rant on the state of the information environment and the population's cognitive resilience. "We really are living in a cognitive wild west. Most people have near-zero memetic defenses or cognitive security suited for the online age". She https://t.co/F7PShGosjV

"I never see you at the club" bro I never see you giving it all you got with no attachment to the result

Pitched a startup I couldn't get out of my head to my most cracked friend. Within 3 days he dropped out of uni, broke up with his gf, quit his job, and moved to the US. We just got a flat together in SF and are now working 24/7 to realize this vision. It's an issue that slows https://t.co/byXUgAppKB

It's official, I'm committed to building in SF and not going back @Stanford https://t.co/9fmNfNuMmx

We are so back

I don’t know but either is pretty good because @AskTaxGPT is gonna be huge

RT @ChKashifAli: Not bad for a boy from the remote part of Pakistan. Who failed English 3 times to get up on a stage and speak without a s…

It would actually make sense that Google should have interop teams whose job it is to make Google products open with APIs to other services otherwise the DOJ should break them up tbh Consumers deserve choice. Closed platforms should cause consequences for the world’s monopolies https://t.co/9HuraUK3Ag

RT @BrivaelLp: Today is a big day 🔥 @ycombinator alumni demo day https://t.co/6ym4OTmZKv

To be frank I think Airbnb could be 10X to 100X the current market cap

RT @garrytan: @Jason Jason this stat is fucked up You at most can only say 85%

RT @kane: I thought there was no way that the entire budget of Denver (pop 713k) is basically what San Francisco (pop 808k) politicians fri…

RT @jasonjoyride: The first ever look into @boomaero, captured during last Friday's XB-1 flight 3 on S3. Get an up close look at XB-1, th…

RT @paulg: Progress doesn't have to take the form of shiny things flying through the air, but I have to admit it's pretty cool when it does.

RT @weaverobotics: ☀️ Rise and shine ☀️

RT @boomaero: COMPLETED: XB-1 has successfully flown its 4th flight at the Mojave Air & Space Port in CA, just 8 days after 3rd flight. The…

RT @OrphicCapital: Hawk Tuah recently went viral for her rant on the state of the information environment and the population's cognitive re…

RT @SFDamnPodcast: 1️⃣The goal is having a permanently under-educated underclass in San Francisco, 2️⃣mission accomplished this is a featur…

RT @StartupArchive_: Airbnb founder Brian Chesky on how to design a product for a million people “How do you make something for a million…

RT @GrowSF: Prop 36 is seeing overwhelming support from voters across California, with 71% saying they’ll vote yes. Prop 36 will increase p…

Cracked team vibes here https://t.co/eAB07f6QcI https://t.co/199pWa7ygU

RT @binarybits: I've developed a bit of a reputation as an "AI skeptic," but I think I was just accurately reporting on the slow pace of LL…

RT @mpopv: I had honestly completely forgotten that it was an early version of o1 that sparked the board coup. Looks quite silly/odd in re…

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Absolutely amazing

Just found out about the new guitarist for Smashing Pumpkins, Kiki Wong @kikiwongo Was amazing to hear her tonight at Oracle Park https://t.co/UIniYgvjg2

RT @Noahpinion: Degrowth is a lot more powerful than you think. It's not just a few eurokooks saying "we shouldn't have washing machines".…

One clear goal of the boom loop is we need to stop doing this

RT @bubs: Getting close to @ycombinator Demo Day time… https://t.co/wrMVDPP4KC

RT @villi: What makes Silicon Valley special is that random people with no incentive come out of nowhere and offer help, access, and suppor…

RT @caseytraina: @JoinOverlap is now the world’s first (probably?) AI clipping algorithm powered symbiotically by @OpenAI o1 + @AnthropicA…

RT @Noahpinion: Nuclear fission is no longer the energy of the future. But for lots of engineer types, it serves as a sort of test case for…

RT @kane: san francisco should be safe and clean year round, not just for expensive conferences https://t.co/7kSDMl6qE3

RT @Gina_McDee: This is disgusting and despicable! This racist tirade is brought to you by a writer for @StreetSheetSF - a publication bro…

How do you prep for your first media interview? A guide https://t.co/YtrWmmLMfh

RT @rowancheung: In a recent interview with T-Mobile, Sam Altman compared o1’s current state to the ‘GPT-2 stage’ of reasoning models He a…

RT @Suhail: As soon as you convince yourself that what matters is compound growth, you stop looking for shortcuts and ignore short-term gai…

Disappointing reporting we’re seeing from @sfstandard and @sfchronicle. They are being fed stories by campaigns and running with them like a tabloid, creating “scandal” in self-perpetuating loops when there is nothing to see. @MarkFarrellSF is one of the most moral, ethical https://t.co/TRJ5MzHd1V

RT @MarkFarrellSF: Some say the City is coming back. But the truth is, we never left. Together, we can accomplish anything. It's time to m…

RT @Twolfrecovery: Dean Preston, commiting ethical violations by taking money from, of all places, The Democratic Socialists of America. Gr…

After my ethics complaint https://t.co/z28ZXqX4I4

RT @ycombinator: Congrats to the team @LuminateMed (YC S21) on the $15M Series A! Luminate makes devices that help cancer patients prevent…

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RT @incitafusio: David Heller needs to step down as president of the Geary Merchants Association for assault & @conniechansf needs rein in…

RT @amasad: How could computers multiplying numbers lead to "literal human extinction?" Doomers never say how, and politicians never press…

This same person still works and is prominent and featured in campaigns run by some of the most brain rotted hard leftists

RT @Twolfrecovery: When you think about it, the 2nd most powerful politician in San Francisco was elected by 3.2% of voters in the city. Da…

RT @KarinaVlaw: Any comments @ryankhoj your supporter Jordan is attacking an immigrant woman from Sri Lanka who came to the United States s…

RT @96hoya: I am amused by @AaronPeskin running as the one who will eliminate the corruption. After the city stared a probe into Mohamme…

RT @EricaJSandberg: 71% of CA want Prop 36 to pass. some SF candidates do not support this measure. if they don't, would you vote for them?…

You’re going to see the hard left in San Francisco get desperate and violent But SF is worth it. We won’t be intimidated.

Did I mention I support Kamala Harris and find we are alike in many ways https://t.co/v0NgsmCrgX

One of the sadder things in SF is that political opponents seem to revel in doxxing your home address Even people who should know better seem to do it with a certain glee We have children and families and don’t deserve this

RT @agarwal: Steven and I "met" just over four years ago over late night phone calls during Covid lockdown. We had both realized, separatel…

RT @ycombinator: Suhail Doshi (@Suhail) has created a state-of-the-art AI image diffusion model with @playground_ai. The app allows you t…

RT @Scotty_Jacobs: I filed an ethics complaint against Dean Preston for receiving illegal campaign contributions from the Democratic Social…

Bad bureaucrats, cronyism, and no accountability are the three-headed snake of Aaron Peskin's extremist political machine that ruined San Francisco https://t.co/CkIVvM4qTV

RT @Overlap_Tech: Suhail Doshi on building Playground AI into a marketplace “It's hard for people to prompt ... so we decided one of our c…

RT @TheMarinaTimes: I would like ⁦@DanielLurie⁩ to explain why anti-police City Family grifter @lateefahsimon⁩ is still on his board. https…

RT @lutherlowe: Here’s the portion of the @micsolana & @garrytan conversation at FAI’s Reboot where they discuss “Little Tech” (a phrase Ga…

Here's the real story on how Playground v3 got to SOTA on image diffusion models Amazing work @Suhail https://t.co/Q5ImkUm3al https://t.co/Bpsq5Q3A2e

RT @rakesh_goyal: Here is the advice that @garrytan gave us, which helped us 13x our revenue at @veltjs Before: - Growth was slow. - CAC w…

Here is the advice that @garrytan gave us, which helped us 13x our revenue at @veltjs Before: - Growth was slow. - CAC was high and revenue per customer was low. - Our pipeline was filled with early-stage startups. After: - 13x revenue growth in under a year. Monthly growth of https://t.co/GH6fMV9BVr

RT @frank_smith1111: Listen to Bilal take down Dean’s lies on housing. There is nothing more unprogressive than blocking housing. Blockin…

LLM > BPO

RT @BasedBeffJezos: New Decel wojak just dropped https://t.co/Akj0WvlnGF

RT @rakesh_goyal: Here is the advice that @garrytan gave us, which helped us 13x our revenue at @veltjs Before: - Growth was slow. - CAC w…

LLMs providing serious boost in long term retention is the #1 reason why consumer apps might be so back

RT @PirateWires: 🚨 The Garry Tan Interview: Politics, The Boom Loop In SF, The Future Of Tech, Lina Khan, and AI Today, in a special pod e…

RT @martin_casado: .@GavinNewsom please don’t let out of state interests dictate our state policy. What we have in California is a wonder…

RT @Overlap_Tech: Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan on AI regulation and the importance of open-source “I think it’s really important for us to m…

RT @markdietrichsf: A random District 1 neighbor just emailed me this video with the subject line "This says it all". It perfectly encap…

RT @kane: progressive bloggers in san francisco have discovered that people are funding ballot measures to reduce nonprofit corruption and…

RT @PirateWires: Coming Soon: Pirate Wires x @garrytan Stay Tuned 🏴‍☠️ https://t.co/PDoNgjBdf8

It's not that hard to get high ratings in the YC Investor Database, but you'd be surprised how often investors mess this up. Very simple to do: - Be respectful of meeting times and show up on time, end on time - Be transparent about conflicting investments in advance - Don't https://t.co/BqBoHUG807

RT @mattdorsey: Untreated drug addiction costs San Francisco taxpayers in excess of $1 billion annually — if we conservatively extrapolate…

RT @eoghan: Today I’m launching THE SAN FRANCISCO FREEDOM CLUB Go to sffc DOT party in your favorite browser and follow the instructions :…

RT @Twolfrecovery: The corruption around homeless spending has run rampant in California. Here's an example. "It’s unclear when the prope…

Playground v1 vs Playground v3 Image models get better so quickly https://t.co/uu86YsZjla

RT @markdietrichsf: This is NOT okay: Connie Chan’s supporters resorting to physical violence after watching Marjan WIPE THE FLOOR with Ch…

RT @martin_casado: This is the right concern on SB 1047. The bill changes tech policy doctrine significantly and in ways that are so poorly…

Founders are not their startups High school kids are not their college apps Happiness is only what happens, but even if you don’t succeed, you can have joy and you can try again Your self worth should never be entirely defined by the outcomes because then it will prevent you https://t.co/h5vpCXPCxP

RT @BasedBeffJezos: Pure evil lies. Growth is good and fundamental to life itself and to our civilizational functioning. Acceleration is…

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RT @TSFAction: This is exactly why we need Prop D. A Police Commissioner is abusing his position to threaten a resident! We need COMMIS…

RT @MarjanPhilhour: This is not okay. Last night, something unsettling happened to me at the @LWVSF Candidate Forum in the Richmond Distri…

RT @JeremyBWhite: 👀👀Hint @GavinNewsom could be leaning veto on #SB1047: echoes opponents in warning of “chilling effect, particularly in th…

RT @LuigiCPA: Another SF Police Commissioner, Cindy Elias, demonstrating a lack of integrity while juggling her new MAJOR conflict of inter…

RT @Suhail: I’m looking to bring on an early in their career product engineer. If you know someone and we hire them, we will give you a $1…

This is what it takes

Fix California. Vote yes on Prop 36 We need accountability and a criminal justice system that works for the law-abiding people, not one that works for the criminals https://t.co/UnPTOJgM4n

The doom loop is not over. SFPD is still understaffed. The police commission is still corrupt. The judges still won’t uphold basic laws to protect the citizens. San Francisco is not fixed yet. We need to win the BoS, Mayor, and Prop D in November. It is *still* in the insane

RT @Twolfrecovery: Needle and crack pipe distribution coupled with decriminalization and a lack of accountability caused such tremendous ha…

RT @KarinaVlaw: Back in February, I warned about the Yanez @SFPDChief @LondonBreed @mattdorsey @Stefani4CA something is not right and must…

RT @ArmandDoma: i’m getting very tired of the people who keep screeching how mean and cruel we are for wanting the people who repeatedly pr…

RT @adampnathan: San Francisco's biggest issues are homelessness, drug overdose and crime. In 2020, we watched the mayor show true leadersh…