Garry Tan (@garrytan) started following @zedlander on Sep 27, 2024

RT @paulg: @BenjaminDEKR Occam's Razor has the answer, as it so often does: for the same reasons people usually leave organizations.

RT @sulmanrc: Past 24 hours have been wild. Lots of concern, some snark, and a bunch of folks making moves. But one message hit me hard: my…

Part of the legacy of @MayorShengThao.

😳 😱 😱 😱

RT @ylecun: SB-1047 would definitely have a chilling effect on open source AI and the entire AI ecosystem. Very much hoping that Governor @…

RT @Suhail: We're looking for product engineers at Playground. Come join us and we will transform you from Good -> World-class: https://t.c…

RT @sdianahu: Congrats to every company in S24! We jut wrapped Demo Day. It was an awesome batch to get to work together. Excited to see wh…

So proud of YC S24 Super strong batch 🫡 Reasoning, ability to take actions, ability to have normal human phone calls, read emails and reply, write code, be a patient sidekick— all of these things are here They are definitely not evenly distributed yet. But they will be.

RT @conorj_SF: I fixed it for you, @garrytan. Malibu Dan Lurie gave $$$ to the Homeless Coalition, opposed Prop F (to require treatment),…

RT @tetheredtoed1: If you see Jo Boaler or YouCubed or “Fluency without Fear” or Math-ish anywhere in your kids school or in yoour teacher…

RT @ilaffey2: @weaverobotics absolutely crushing it at demo day reception so cool guys! can’t believe you made this so quick https://t.co/…

Great demo of @weaverobotics Demos are really back

RT @TSFAction: Instead of taking accountability for recent corruption, the former Human Rights Commission Chair is defending corrupt nonpro…

RT @traestephens: Great faith + tech opportunity coming up next month, hosted by YC CEO @garrytan + @mddstephens Come hear from Biden's S…

RT @AndrewYNg: A decision on SB-1047 is due soon. Governor @GavinNewsom has said he's concerned about its "chilling effect, particularly in…

RT @hyunjiejung: Day 2 of YC Demo Day @ycombinator kudos to all the startups building great things! https://t.co/tJ5I2N1cdQ

RT @james406: tier 2 vc playbook * look at yc companies from the last 3 years * wonder why they aren't as big as airbnb, decide it's bigge…

RT @incitafusio: Lurie isnt a moderate... his mom gave millions to recall Boudin, while he gave to Mayor Thao & hired Max Szabo & gave to t…

RT @BrookeJenkinsSF: I’m delighted to announce that @GrowSF has endorsed me for San Francisco DA. Grow SF and I share the same goal of bri…

LLMs have such a tremendous power to help people build better companies, and this is a perfect example of that Incredible work @parkerconrad

RT @SquawkCNBC: .@mcuban talks potential regulatory regimes under Harris versus Trump: https://t.co/iRUU4Di2PU

Gandalf in Lord of the Rings: "It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What https://t.co/0w8EreM5EA

RT @bobmcgrewai: I just shared this with OpenAI: https://t.co/1gTCbigdsS

RT @mcuban: I talked to the Harris team today who told me in no uncertain terms that they are against “regulation through litigation “ CYA…

She is beautiful and fearless! 💙🌊 https://t.co/t1G4EgXCht

RT @bscholl: XB-1 Flight Four ✅ Very successful flight this morning. Airplane performed great, with a new top speed of Mach 0.6 and 2.5G…

“Corruption is bound to happen in a 34k+ org”, but it also just happens to involve Breed’s longtime friends? What are the odds on that?

RT @mattdorsey: Worthwhile read about @BrookeJenkinsSF, and I 100% agree that San Francisco needs a locked intake facility to assure that c…

RT @srush_nlp: So I'm a "text maximalist." I like other modalities, but not convinced we need them to improve LLM. This result from last w…

RT @taranjeetio: As we gear up for @ycombinator S24 Demo Day tomorrow, we’re still deep in co-working sessions with @mem0ai customers, lear…

i know claudeslop when i see it

it’s kinda messed up all puppers are doggos but not all doggos are puppers

got this msg "celebrities in Korea" lol https://t.co/FTQbGTUsd2

RT @bosmeny: Just kicking off @ycombinator Demo Day! I've gotten to see over the past 3 months how impressive these teams are – today I'm…

A few words on my former colleagues: @miramurati was my role model and a courageous leader - she gave me my best piece of management advice to date (make the decision that is fair, not the one that makes people happy). @bobmcgrewai was the best problem solver I've worked with

While today’s departures are tough, I’m incredibly excited and honored to lead research at @OpenAI alongside @merettm. I truly believe that OpenAI is the best place to work on AI, and I've been through enough ups and downs to know it's never wise to bet against us.

RT @woj_zaremba: o1 paradigm of solving problems with a chain of thought offers new avenues to safety/alignment research. It’s easier to…

The killer app for Meta’s Orion glasses will be face recognition and telling you what to talk about https://t.co/KvyFDhGKTf

RT @tryfondo: 🚀 @weaverobotics launched! Making the first personal robot built for the home "Isaac is the world’s first personal robot tha…

People playing startup house think “build a demo” or “get a first customer” is some sort of check mark in order to join a club or pass a test Do you understand starting a company is do or die? Either your product is something people want or not. We want you to make a great demo

RT @robaiavao: The other night I participated in a debate in defense of Prop D against Homeless Oversight Commissioner @christinevans. Duri…

RT @coffeewithone: Thanks to @ycombinator, I found my people— the kind who stay up late building, hype you up like you’re the next Steve Jo…

Lulu is the Wolf of Memes

RT @Max: It only took 12 years to earn this @ycombinator shirt! https://t.co/jl1ybKSmCL

RT @bnj: “60% of repeat founders who created unicorns the last five years are actually YC alums” Absolute dominance

RT @rakesh_goyal: When someone asks - is @ycombinator really worth it? I tell them it was the best 7% equity I could give and I'd do it ag…

RT @lg: impressive to see so many of these YC demo day companies already have @Shopify as a customer. it's clear the world's best companies…

RT @bubs: Today we made @ycombinator demo day history by being the first startup to say "fart" TWICE! https://t.co/sTZqZYsO9I

Imagine this happening in every type of knowledge work — codegen is just doing it for developers first, but you can imagine every type of market or business will be totally changed as the *smart* thing can just happen 10 times out of 10 and proceed without human-in-the-loop

RT @davecyen: In the last week alone, I’ve met 5 companies in S24 who’ve already hit or are on track to reach $1M ARR by Jan, with the bulk…

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RT @sapitonmix: Each YC demo day is such a huge proof that the US is alive, well, has lots of smart people and by far attract the most ambi…

What does YC give you that even pre-seed firms cannot? It's not about money. The money exists out there. It's actually a place to speed up to startup speed. No place like it.

RT @NielsHoven: Tell me more about how bad capitalism is, it’s so hard to hear you over the noise of this self-driving wheelchair on its wa…

RT @surmenok: Almost every startup at YC Demo Day is building with LLMs. Huge change comparing even with the previous demo day.

RT @chrisfralic: Remembering my first YC Demo day. It was summer 2007 in Cambridge MA and there were 19 companies presenting, and maybe a d…

I also had a live stream where I showed how to use SAM2 for image and video segmentation. https://t.co/jX6rJ2jQHI

I'm also working on maestro - VLM fine-tuning toolkit we support Florence-2 already, and it makes the fine-tuning process soooo easy! not only for object detection but for OCER and VQA as well maestro: https://t.co/XvSemrbaz6 https://t.co/G4tm1ngSYs

RT @ChefGruel: This would be my lunchable line. I’m gonna crowdfund it. https://t.co/YfhkusNmLj

Love Fat Bear Week! Here are some pics of bears last year in Alaska, er, getting fat... https://t.co/sNOa2Cr6pL

RT @Kekomarieee: The entire TL is fake outraged over the execution of an alleged 15x felon. LMFAO. Y’all are never to be taken seriously.

Aggressively gullible people are way too often aggressively rude and hyper-sensitive.

I can't believe @tnachen & I have been running the Open Source Startup Podcast for ~4 years and hit 150 episodes😁 Time flies when you're having fun😉 Check out our episodes with founders from @huggingface @vercel @HashiCorp @supabase @getsentry & more👇 https://t.co/gChZwmMEDh

It’s extremely hard for seed & pre-seed funds to invest in YC companies today Valuation & dilution expectations just don’t work with a seed fund model The program can be great for founders but the new YC investment structure precludes funds outside of multi-stage from investing

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RT @alexdanilo99: Announcing the launch of our infinite canvas for generative UI. - Prompt for any design you want - Reference what you ha…

RT @Bobakkabob37: "In a statement, Lurie expressed confidence he could “overhaul the corrupt bureaucracy” but did not provide specifics on…

RT @rivatez: convincing a bunch of non-technical LA people to support your dumb AI safety bill is not the flex you think it is https://t.co…

Stop the Mission Blight Vote for @Trevor4SF

https://t.co/XmlXxkFGRS

You can have a great startup idea, but a great startup idea is like having a great plan for a fistfight. The moment the idea actually touches customers is like the moment you get punched in the face. What matters is what you do at that moment, not the plan.

"If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen." —Alan Watts

RT @dissproportion: DoorDash went from barely existing outside of major cities 5 years ago to being a human right. Which goes to show that…

RT @war24182236: Today is Tuesday and Glide line is getting long to get your free pipe nothing else no information to Detox are Rehab just…

RT @AravSrinivas: This is how Stan Druckenmiller found ways to invest in Argentina at the beginning of the year. https://t.co/Nzg7RisufH

This is the way https://t.co/JppOloeCby

My founder mode posters now in the wild in the hallways of YC SF https://t.co/IEf6BcN8Pr

San Francisco must fund recovery-first housing that has no drugs in it It is inhumane to force people by de facto requiring people to live in housing that is full of people abusing drugs PSH residents want recovery. Why won’t the city fund it?

You get collegial environments very rarely and when you get to be in them or you get to create them you must be very thankful And you can’t forget what allowed it to come together. It doesn’t come for free or automatically.

We all wish life was like college but I’m sorry to report it is at best high school

Generate. Preview. Ship

Just interviewed a cracked engineer. I asked for his feedback on the interview process. In his words: "I think the interview process had the friendliest interviewers I've ever met. I think fostering such an environment actually helps the interviewee present the best version of