Garry Tan (@garrytan)

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Garry Tan

@garrytan

11 Aug 2023

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

Bloomberg Technology

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11 Aug 2023

"I realized tech is this thing that can bring people out of whatever situation they're in and often into prosperity. And that's what I want for everyone." @ycombinator’s @garrytan tells @emilychangtv how tech changed his family's life. Watch here: trib.al/sxg1VGR

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Garry Tan

@garrytan

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The founder in their 40s with taste and discernment is the new gentleman unicorn founder Because there can be 100x to 1000x of them working at their beck and call via agents and software factories all the time

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Frank Smith @frank_smith1111

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9 out of 12 industrialized countries who tried a wealth tax ended up repealing it, per the NYT. That includes France, the country the proponents of the California wealth tax come from. The reason is quite simple. Billionaires just move to a different state or country and all that remains is a hollowed out tax base. This appears to have already at least in part happened in California. What more proof do you need? This is a catastrophic tax for the state of California. Whether you are a conservative pr a liberal, you should reject it. Plain and simple.

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I feel this. America, and especially dense cities, have descended way too far into being low trust societies. People are being unethical because they see so many others being unethical. And it’s slowly poisoning our country. Time to start emulating Japan and blatantly calling out the people who disrespect their home.

Palmer Luckey

@PalmerLuckey

We need a bit more shame. People used to avoid certain self-interested behaviors to avoid shame, private and public. Law and customs assumed this. Now, 38% of Stanford students claim to be disabled. 40% of young women (under 35) claim mental illness, and SSI disability payments have gone up 400% in a single generation. It isn't good for anyone, least of all people who are actually disabled, when everyone looks the other way as friends and family and peers con the system with a level of shamelessness no architect of our safety net ever imagined could be possible in America. When everyone is disabled, nobody is.

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MissionLoco @MissionLoco

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This Chronicle piece is absurd, claiming tech chased out artists, which is a lie. Art scenes have life cycles. Ours started in the 50’s & raged well into the 80’s. There are a multitude of factors involved, and lots of examples. Black Mountain College, the East Village, etc. 🙄

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Jared Friedman

@snowmaker

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Fable is so insanely good. Deserves the hype.

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Gabriel Jarrosson

@GJarrosson

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The age of the 40-year-old founder is back. Bryant Chou spent 12 years as CTO of Webflow, which now powers something like 1.5% of the entire internet. He's back in the current YC batch with Ploy, an AI marketing platform, and he describes himself as "a bit of a boomer, double the age of the YC founders." But over 13% of his batch is already using his product, within months of launch. There is a side of the argument which destroyed one of the main edges young founders have, which was being faster and cheaper at building.... speed is everyones game. If what's left is knowing what to build this is more likely to come from spending 15 years watching an industry up close, collecting the thousand small frustrations that tell you where the real problem is. Bryant can build an anti-slop website tool because he spent over a decade learning exactly why websites are slop. So I'm updating. I don't think it's young vs. old. I think AI rewards whoever has the most domain knowledge to point it at, and only sometimes is this younger founders who are thinking outside of the box...

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Age of the Unc confirmed

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Anjney Midha

@AnjneyMidha

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it’s tempting to conclude all American third spaces are dead this is dubious sure, bowling alleys may be empty, but communities are thriving in niche private spaces - from house parties to discord servers perhaps a natural consequence of poor safety in public spaces

Hedgeye

@Hedgeye

Jul 5

America is running out of places to gather: Bars and clubs per capita have fallen over 60% since the late 1970s, and since 2001 a fifth of movie theaters have shut their doors. Over the past two decades, the country has lost roughly 2,000 golf courses and 7,000 bars and nightclubs. Catching live music now costs a pretty penny: top-tour concert tickets averaged $134 last year, up 42% from 2019. So Americans stay in. Nearly 80% see friends and family less than three times a week. Read that again. America has traded their community for their couch.

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@garrytan

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If people have good ideas for how to serve one another, GDP-per-person everywhere in the world is about to 10x

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I'm in Osaka now, and it's clear: Japan already ran the experiment on the ceiling. Thirty years of zero growth and it built the best trains, service, and craft on earth. When you can't compete on more, you compete on better. Better AND more at the same time.

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So the real constraint on human wealth was never resources. It was good ideas for how to serve one another, and the leverage to act on them. We just deleted the leverage constraint for everybody. Now it's only the ideas. Go have them, and then build them. It's your time.

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A data center isn't just compute It's a financing vehicle that pulls power generation, grid, chips, and construction along with it. One buildout drags a dozen adjacent industries forward. We have to keep building.

Packy McCormick

@packyM

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🇺🇸 AMERICAN DATA CENTERS 🇺🇸 Excellent piece in FT by my friend @joshzoff arguing that the US can't treat data centers like we treated rare earths, and that data centers are a great way to finance development of a bunch of other advanced technologies (strong agree).

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Tony Dang

@dangtony98

Jul 5

Every forward-thinking company, startup or not, should be investing time into building out internal agents capabilities and the infrastructure needed for it. We run an equivalent solution to what Clay describes as an MCP gateway called Agent Vault that we’ve actually open sourced at @infisical. Agent Vault inventories all of our internal agents and brokers them granular access to any service, agnostic of the interface be it MCP, SDK, CLI, or raw API call. It’s deployed within a private network within close proximity to internal agents to reduce latency amid hundreds and thousands of inference calls passing through it. We also have an internal template that folks can use to build custom agents that are readily compatible with Agent Vault. We’ll be publishing more on how to build an agent workforce, especially the security infrastructure portion of it, soon but for now I’d recommend peeking Agent Vault. This is basically the starting point.

Noah Horner

@noahhorner_

Jul 4

Super interesting hearing @claybavor talk about the internal AI tool (called 'Pinecone'), that Sierra has built for all it's employees. And it must be working because they hit $100M ARR in their first 7 quarters, and are now worth north of $15B. 'Pinecone' does two main things: 1. Gives every employee access to find and interrogate information across the whole company = so they can make higher quality decisions faster. 2. Let's employees build their own mini agents to help them with their work = each person starts to feel more like 2-3 people, as these agents free up time for them to spend on higher value work. ^^^Every company should have their own version of this, Clay says it has become an 'approaching indispensable tool for running the company'. thanks @HarryStebbings for another banger interview!

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@garrytan

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Build more tech and homes

T Wolf 🌁

@Twolfrecovery

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What the Socialists fail to understand is that the only game in town economically is tech. If we kick them out, then the money San Francisco spends subsidizing this person's housing dries up and he'll be homeless again. @garrytan

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Matt Dorsey

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Jul 5

Thank you, Eric Kingsbury, for this powerful indictment of the left’s antisemitism and anti-Zionism problem. Many of us non-Jews are noticing, too. 👉 “You don’t get to make Jews feel unsafe here and then tell them they don’t deserve safety anywhere.” sfstandard.com/opinion/2026/…

Opinion: San Francisco’s left has a growing antisemitism problem

Scott Wiener was pushed out of the Trans March last week. His opponents say it was because of his policies. Make no mistake: It was because he’s Jewish.

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Garry Tan

@garrytan

Jul 5

SF needs to build housing asap Incentivize and build supply Stop subsidizing demand

Sam D'Amico

@sdamico

Jul 4

Pretty sure this complex (alchemy in haight / hayes) was renting 2BRs for like ~$5K 2-3 years ago SF rents are going vertical. Also: there’s basically zero inventory in lower haight right now.

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Sriram Krishnan

@sriramk

Jul 3

Can confirm I have discussed many a LessWrong piece / concept inside the White House. Red queen race , Roko’s Basilisk,…

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