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Garry Tan
Writes about Founder. 71% of posts open with an observation. A typical post reaches 395 likes.
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| Post | Topic | Likes | Replies | Reposts | Score | Posted | Actions |
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| @garrytanMy best career advice: At every job you should either learn or earn. Either is fine. Both … | Career | 46K | 164 | — | 62 | ||
| @garrytanApple has devolved into a late stage holding company That Siri has no LLM while they are d… | AI | 4.3K | 252 | — | 53 | ||
| @garrytanColleges are buying SAT takers names, marketing to low scorers, all to boost rejections an… | Marketing | 3.3K | 85 | — | 44 | ||
| @garrytanMasayoshi Son invented the first electronic dictionary, sold it for $1.7M to Sharp, and us… | Hiring | 3K | 42 | — | 43 | ||
| @garrytanGrowing up the child of immigrants, sometimes food insecure, the child of an alcoholic, th… | Engineering | 2.9K | 71 | — | 43 | ||
| @garrytanSteve Jobs in 1990: Interpersonal networked computing (through great software and UX) will… | Product | 2.7K | 60 | — | 43 | ||
| @garrytanAnthropic shutting down OpenClaw may turn out to be a strategic blunder, or strategic geni… | AI | 2.5K | 382 | — | 55 | ||
| @garrytanGood design is not picking colors and making it pretty Good design is removing steps, unde… | Product | 2.4K | 60 | — | 42 | ||
| @garrytanWhy is every startup a 10 year overnight success? 80% of new businesses fail in the first … | Founder | 2.4K | 36 | — | 42 | ||
| @garrytanNah this is an exponential event for vertical SaaS More startups than ever are going from … | SaaS | 2.3K | 79 | — | 48 | ||
| @garrytanLong Term Stock Exchange is now approved by the SEC! 🦄 Let startups go public earlier 🙅�… | Materials | 2.3K | 59 | — | 41 | ||
| @garrytanWhen choosing a startup idea, you must be able to check either of these boxes [ ] Truly no… | Founder | 2.2K | 81 | — | 41 | ||
| @garrytan50 of 91 unicorns in the USA have immigrant founders who have created more than $248B in m… | Hiring | 2.1K | 53 | — | 41 | ||
| @garrytanThis is dark but amazing: a very self aware interview with @ConanOBrien FWIW he has always… | Hiring | 1.9K | 35 | — | 40 | ||
| @garrytanFounders— when things are great, really celebrate that. Share that with your team and savo… | Hiring | 1.9K | 23 | — | 40 | ||
| @garrytanI'm very proud to announce our @Initialized Fund V, a $230M fund focused on seed, before t… | Product | 1.9K | 192 | — | 41 | ||
| @garrytanOn my graduation day from Stanford, my parents told me to never let your new credential be… | Founder | 1.9K | 19 | — | 40 | ||
| @garrytanHere's Steve Jobs explaining object oriented programming in layman's terms in 1996 😳 Stat… | Founder | 1.8K | 14 | — | 39 | ||
| @garrytanEvery fast growing effective team needs two opposing archetypes: 🦄 the dreamer who can ev… | Hiring | 1.7K | 26 | — | 39 | ||
| @garrytanYou know I invite both my real friends and my newer startup friends to my house parties So… | Founder | 1.7K | 76 | — | 40 | ||
| @garrytanCustomer support is an R&D exercise. Every support ticket is an opportunity to think throu… | Product | 1.5K | 26 | — | 38 | ||
| @garrytanFuture founders who don’t have the skills to build yet (eng, PM, design, mgmt, marketing) … | Marketing | 1.5K | 44 | — | 38 | ||
| @garrytan30% of YC companies exposed through SVB can’t make payroll in the next 30 days. If you or … | Founder | 1.4K | 295 | — | 41 | ||
| @garrytanLess than 60 percent of web traffic is human. In 2013, half of YouTube traffic was “bots m… | Growth | 1.3K | 39 | — | 38 | ||
| @garrytanIf you survey enough people, all the advice will cancel to zero. You do have to have your … | Lessons | 1.2K | 23 | — | 37 | ||
| @garrytanBerkshire Hathaway bought See’s Candies for $25M when annual sales were $30M and earnings … | Revenue | 1.2K | 37 | — | 37 | ||
| @garrytanScrappy startups: You may have raised less money and you might be under the gun. But by be… | Founder | 1.2K | 30 | — | 37 | ||
| @garrytanTalkers vs makers Talkers basically need to attract makers to succeed, and its unpredictab… | Career | 1.2K | 33 | — | 37 | ||
| @garrytanHard work should pay off for Asian Americans, not block their education opportunities At S… | Revenue | 1.1K | 33 | — | 37 | ||
| @garrytanWays to get funded (least fair to most fair) 🤑 Hot round/who else is investing 💼 Right s… | Founder | 1.1K | 40 | — | 37 | ||
| @garrytanBasic building blocks of a pitch: 1/ What is it? What problem does it solve? Can you expla… | Founder | 1.1K | 17 | — | 36 | ||
| @garrytanWorking for Microsoft cost me $200M I was 23 and I had a zero-risk opportunity to join a s… | Founder | 1.1K | 49 | — | 37 | ||
| @garrytanWhen starting your startup it is better to do it out of an apartment or garage than a corp… | Founder | 1.1K | 25 | — | 36 | ||
| @garrytanToday is YC W24 Demo Day A new cohort of the world's best startups is ready to meet the wo… | Founder | 1.1K | 53 | — | 42 | ||
| @garrytanWhen I failed, I felt shame, and when I succeeded, I used to think I only felt nothingness… | Lessons | 1.1K | 32 | — | 36 | ||
| @garrytanTobi exemplifies what great founder engineers can do. In the last 10 years: 👩🏻💻 15 emp… | Founder | 1K | 13 | — | 36 | ||
| @garrytanThe most brutal thing about the PM job is that doing the *easy* thing (path of least resis… | Product | 985 | 34 | — | 36 | ||
| @garrytanLots of college students reach out to me asking me about how to be a VC. I tell them: be a… | Founder | 981 | 32 | — | 36 | ||
| @garrytanProduct needs distribution Distribution needs capital A VC (capital) who can identify good… | Founder | 966 | 30 | — | 36 | ||
| @garrytanIf you're a startup and you're not even growing 2X per year, and you're wondering if you'r… | Founder | 964 | 37 | — | 36 | ||
| @garrytanYou need openness and creativity pre-product-market-fit. But after that you have to trade … | Product | 932 | 27 | — | 35 | ||
| @garrytanWhen there is a lot of competition you have basically one tool: specialization Pick off a … | Revenue | 928 | 19 | — | 35 | ||
| @garrytanYou know the key thing people forget in startups is how non-obvious things are for a decad… | Hiring | 906 | 20 | — | 35 | ||
| @garrytanYou can solve a problem vertically but end up with TAM problems. Or you can solve a proble… | Growth | 895 | 35 | — | 35 | ||
| @garrytan1/ On outsiders vs insiders: If you’re an outsider to tech (no exits, nobody has heard of … | Career | 888 | 16 | — | 35 | ||
| @garrytanUnforced errors for early startup teams 😴 Unresponsive to communication from customers/pa… | Revenue | 878 | 11 | — | 35 | ||
| @garrytanFounders: What did you wish you knew or prepared for in the years leading up to starting y… | Founder | 874 | 156 | — | 37 | ||
| @garrytanIf you made something and you can’t get people to use it, you basically have two options: … | Product | 869 | 15 | — | 35 | ||
| @garrytanCoinbase founder @brian_armstrong on joining Airbnb and finding out just how broken our gl… | Founder | 865 | 91 | — | 36 | ||
| @garrytanGet an executive coach - if you’re a CEO or exec, you make decisions regularly that are wo… | Hiring | 835 | 28 | — | 35 | ||
| @garrytanI did an analysis of the dead startups I invested in the past 5 years and the two most com… | Revenue | 826 | 34 | — | 35 | ||
| @garrytanBeware of TAM when picking ideas! Figma founder Dylan Field (@zoink) looked at US labor st… | Founder | 822 | 20 | — | 34 | ||
| @garrytanI am super proud to be working with @alexisohanian and our whole team at @initialized. We … | Product | 809 | 43 | — | 35 | ||
| @garrytanIn 30 years time, I want to look back say we invested in 100 startup decacorns that solved… | Founder | 806 | 25 | — | 34 | ||
| @garrytanFirst time founders love throwing themselves at consumer social. I think that is great, bu… | SaaS | 798 | 21 | — | 34 | ||
| @garrytanVenture Capital: 2% of the time it works every time $9M of a $400M fund is 2% of the fund … | Founder | 795 | 9 | — | 34 | ||
| @garrytanYou can learn a lot from books and podcasts but here’s why you need to still seek out advi… | Lessons | 794 | 32 | — | 34 | ||
| @garrytanBad pitch, common: Form random sentences using hot buzzwords and rely on social proof for … | Founder | 780 | 26 | — | 34 | ||
| @garrytanWeird possible future: the majority of the company is remote but founders, CEO and executi… | Hiring | 776 | 79 | — | 35 | ||
| @garrytanThis is a classic investor fallacy Startups don’t ever die because they raised a full roun… | Founder | 769 | 27 | — | 34 | ||
| @garrytanOne reason to be a designer who codes is that you can make better things. How? I remember … | Engineering | 760 | 33 | — | 34 | ||
| @garrytanAn uncharitable but very useful view of your potential users are ultimately that they are … | Product | 753 | 22 | — | 34 | ||
| @garrytanNever let your credentials be the only noteworthy thing about your pitch. Instead focus on… | Founder | 748 | 14 | — | 34 | ||
| @garrytanAbout 50 reviews through 300 YC applications submitted for comment. Surprising how unaware… | Founder | 741 | 31 | — | 34 | ||
| @garrytanI know a lot of people with kids are going to have a tough week One stoic practice I think… | Health | 725 | 23 | — | 34 | ||
| @garrytanThe key to a good online business: 1/ make a great product that solves the problem 2/ figu… | SaaS | 713 | 18 | — | 33 | ||
| @garrytanRippling raised $45M with no Pitch Deck. Instead there was an Investor Memo, coupled with … | Founder | 698 | 18 | — | 33 | ||
| @garrytanA lot of people worry when they try and fail, that failure will hang around their neck for… | Lessons | 697 | 22 | — | 33 | ||
| @garrytanPre product market fit you have to get lucky. You have to catch lightning in a bottle. Aft… | Product | 696 | 15 | — | 33 | ||
| @garrytanSat next to a YC applicant flying to SF for an interview. Overheard them close an enterpri… | Hiring | 687 | 5 | — | 33 | ||
| @garrytanPeople often ask me about how to get rid of their fear of working on a startup idea. I say… | Founder | 678 | 31 | — | 33 | ||
| @garrytanWhy second time founders have a much easier time raising: “The trouble with the first time… | Lessons | 669 | 23 | — | 33 | ||
| @garrytanWhy YouTube? I want to try to lift all the boats and the be the magnet that creates a lot … | Engineering | 659 | 23 | — | 33 | ||
| @garrytanQuality assurance is the most underrated function for early stage startups. Yes your produ… | Product | 659 | 28 | — | 33 | ||
| @garrytanStartups must nail storytelling because a great storytelling pitch that actually achieves … | Founder | 643 | 11 | — | 33 | ||
| @garrytanThe ideal stance for a good startup advisor is actually short term pessimist, long term op… | Founder | 641 | 16 | — | 33 | ||
| @garrytanFounders who are technologists tend to think in terms of features or software to write Cus… | Revenue | 628 | 26 | — | 33 | ||
| @garrytanExplaining Capital to a 4 year old Money is food for companies. Good companies grow with t… | Food tech | 627 | 27 | — | 33 | ||
| @garrytanDoubled my YouTube channel subscribers to more than 5000 while also adding 3600 new Twitte… | Growth | 622 | 32 | — | 33 | ||
| @garrytanEveryone wants to own their successes but owning your own failure is the only path to self… | Lessons | 621 | 15 | — | 32 | ||
| @garrytanJust as you should never make the most interesting thing about you the college you went to… | Founder | 617 | 15 | — | 32 | ||
| @garrytanEarly in your career it is important to find encouragement. A lot of failure early on is t… | Lessons | 596 | 12 | — | 32 | ||
| @garrytanSo the agents basically hacked a core service to turn it into Moltbook and also hacked aro… | AI | 582 | 48 | — | 45 | ||
| @garrytanInitialized is hiring partner and principal roles. You’re brilliant. Come help us find the… | Hiring | 579 | 29 | — | 32 | ||
| @garrytanPeople often ask if a startup idea is viable based on a description alone. Hard to answer … | SaaS | 579 | 8 | — | 32 | ||
| @garrytanA true gem of an HN comment replying to a post by a software engineer getting overpaid at … | Engineering | 577 | 11 | — | 32 | ||
| @garrytanOf the big 5 tech firms I think startupdom (and the Fortune 500) should fear Amazon the mo… | Revenue | 568 | 14 | — | 32 | ||
| @garrytanI wanted to help my parents buy our first house. I was 14 and I grew up in apartments. I c… | Hiring | 567 | 13 | — | 32 | ||
| @garrytanCapital is a commodity—there’s an oversupply of money seeking yield It’s an incredible tim… | Founder | 565 | 20 | — | 32 | ||
| @garrytanThere’s a direct relationship between how deep your minimum viable product must be and how… | Product | 559 | 11 | — | 32 | ||
| @garrytanConsensus and right = small low risk return Contrarian but right = 1000X possible VC is co… | Founder | 557 | 22 | — | 32 | ||
| @garrytanWhen founders ask about positioning vs competitors, I think of Glengarry Glen Ross— 1st pr… | Marketing | 553 | 20 | — | 32 | ||
| @garrytanChina inserted hacked microchips onto motherboards shipped to 30 US cos incl Apple. They w… | Product | 541 | 28 | — | 32 | ||
| @garrytanAll startups are either virtuous or vicious cycles that at the moment are inflecting upwar… | Revenue | 537 | 5 | — | 31 | ||
| @garrytanI was thinking about this recently: how many people got into tech via PC video games? Defe… | Marketing | 532 | 85 | — | 34 | ||
| @garrytanIt’s a weird thing take a moment with founders to reflect on competition and rivals you we… | Career | 524 | 17 | — | 31 | ||
| @garrytanToday there are more than 75 public SaaS companies worth nearly $1T 10 years ago, there we… | SaaS | 515 | 27 | — | 32 | ||
| @garrytanAny area that is untouched yet by software and technology (which is still relatively large… | Founder | 509 | 14 | — | 31 | ||
| @garrytanMore than a year later my one year old no longer sleeps in my arms (sleep training for the… | Health | 494 | 39 | — | 32 | ||
| @garrytanBeing plain spoken is a virtue, and a guiding light for how @alexisohanian and I invest. F… | Product | 492 | 5 | — | 31 | ||
| @garrytanWhen you make something new and beautiful, sometimes the mechanism is strange and uncomfor… | Hiring | 488 | 6 | — | 31 | ||
| @garrytanDon't look for a mentor. Find people and teams who you believe in, who can help you, and h… | Founder | 486 | 13 | — | 31 | ||
| @garrytanSubtle real advantage nobody talks about: if founders can access deeper pools of capital e… | Founder | 478 | 16 | — | 31 | ||
| @garrytanThe map isn’t the territory. Likewise the resume is not the person and the pitch deck is n… | Founder | 467 | 22 | — | 31 | ||
| @garrytanIf you’re on the journey and some clones come with their copy machines, know that people l… | Founder | 466 | 6 | — | 30 | ||
| @garrytanIf you are a startup founder and have caught lightning in a bottle, you should know holdin… | Founder | 459 | 15 | — | 31 | ||
| @garrytanIn 2013 I wrote to potential Coinbase Series A investors: "All the Bitcoins in the world t… | Founder | 441 | 11 | — | 30 | ||
| @garrytanOne of the most interesting charts I have ever seen about how memory works Look at that lo… | Marketing | 437 | 20 | — | 30 | ||
| @garrytanCAC just went to close to zero for a ton of services that are suddenly essential (delivery… | Growth | 434 | 10 | — | 30 | ||
| @garrytanSome of you disagree. That's fine. But this article is about me. I grew up food insecure a… | Food tech | 427 | 13 | — | 30 | ||
| @garrytanVC would be more functional if instead of some magic, it was merely described as 3 sided m… | Founder | 426 | 12 | — | 30 | ||
| @garrytanWe all deserve to be safe on our own streets Did you know that YC-backed Flock Safety’s li… | Founder | 421 | 30 | — | 35 | ||
| @garrytanFounders starting out usually have products, business models and go to markets that don’t … | AI | 419 | 13 | — | 30 | ||
| @garrytanExecs and new founders frequently make a big mistake: overvaluing the big idea and underva… | Lessons | 415 | 15 | — | 30 | ||
| @garrytanTruepill is in Forbes in print this month: one of the next billion dollar startups— Having… | SaaS | 411 | 5 | — | 29 | ||
| @garrytanIf you're trying to figure out your minimum viable product and deciding between a/ feature… | Product | 410 | 18 | — | 30 | ||
| @garrytanGPT-3 is great but remember meaning isn’t created in machines or any amount of matrix mani… | AI | 407 | 25 | — | 30 | ||
| @garrytanAdobe is a $149B company that has a crippling bug that afflicts tons of users— a looping b… | Engineering | 399 | 14 | — | 30 | ||
| @garrytanFounderhood is truly a game with escalating levels of difficulty Before you start: you mus… | Hiring | 391 | 12 | — | 29 | ||
| @garrytanTrends are the ultimate red herring. Make things people want. There are lots of things nob… | Product | 385 | 9 | — | 29 | ||
| @garrytanNow as an investor I try to remind myself we are⛽️ and it’s the founder and their startup … | Founder | 379 | 13 | — | 29 | ||
| @garrytanConsumer startups that catch lightning in a bottle often suffer from too much success too … | SaaS | 379 | 7 | — | 29 | ||
| @garrytanSB1047 is not the right path. This bill, as it stands, could gravely harm California’s abi… | AI | 370 | 36 | — | 35 | ||
| @garrytanZoom is amazing but doesn't have product market fit. There's a lot of space around it that… | Product | 367 | 64 | — | 31 | ||
| @garrytanAt the earliest possible stage of startups, basing your success on the approval of anyone … | Revenue | 366 | 12 | — | 29 | ||
| @garrytanI grew up at times food insecure in Fremont, CA. I am the outcome of public school: honors… | Food tech | 357 | 12 | — | 29 | ||
| @garrytanUgh, I did it again. I tweeted a really mean thing because I was frustrated about bad prod… | Product | 357 | 14 | — | 29 | ||
| @garrytanMy next YouTube vlog is up! 🎞 Why am I doing these vids? 💰 Why did I start a VC firm? 🎥… | Founder | 355 | 23 | — | 29 | ||
| @garrytanReading this 2008 tweet in 2021 makes me think I should have invested in Dropbox back then… | Founder | 354 | 14 | — | 29 | ||
| @garrytanI am not your Harold. “Asian Americans are the least likely racial group to be promoted in… | Hiring | 350 | 14 | — | 29 | ||
| @garrytanThe first step is often awareness. Take the adverse childhood experience (ACE) test for in… | Career | 341 | 6 | — | 28 | ||
| @garrytanGreat career advice from @stevesi Think in 5 year timescales What will define those 5 year… | Lessons | 339 | 5 | — | 28 | ||
| @garrytanSometimes the best strategy when you and another startup have exactly the same name is: Ke… | Founder | 336 | 20 | — | 29 | ||
| @garrytanEclipse Foods has created plant-based milk that is so similar it can be made into ice crea… | Food tech | 334 | 14 | — | 28 | ||
| @garrytan“Replacing an employee costs about 15X that employee’s base salary—so by holding onto thei… | Founder | 324 | 16 | — | 28 | ||
| @garrytanSpaced repetition is magic! Memory matters a lot in programming, so I was impressed to rea… | Engineering | 320 | 15 | — | 28 | ||
| @garrytanThe initial idea is just a first direction. The best path is found through listening to us… | Product | 319 | 11 | — | 28 | ||
| @garrytanYC is now in its 20th year of operation, having created over $800B in new startup market v… | Founder | 316 | 25 | — | 33 | ||
| @garrytanWhat's the best community platform right now for influencers/creators who want to go direc… | Marketing | 315 | 87 | — | 31 | ||
| @garrytanEarly stage startups should probably keep track of two types of runway: * Optimal plan (in… | Revenue | 315 | 13 | — | 28 | ||
| @garrytanThis ad for a new medium format digital back for the Hasseblad system 👌 The Hasselblad 50… | Creative | 315 | 19 | — | 28 | ||
| @garrytanThe cofounder trap: When you want so much to be good cofounders to one another you skip th… | Founder | 308 | 8 | — | 28 | ||
| @garrytanHow Gobble CEO Ooshma Garg flipped the meal kit industry on its head Growing 2X in a quart… | Founder | 307 | 7 | — | 28 | ||
| @garrytanFor a while I was expecting there to be a Hacker News or subreddit for every industry. Ins… | SaaS | 304 | 23 | — | 28 | ||
| @garrytanI did YC in the Summer of 2008. Lehman died the day we closed our Posterous seed round. No… | Founder | 300 | 7 | — | 27 | ||
| @garrytanYouTube is mainly an editor’s game. Stories enforce constraints but long form vids don’t. … | Revenue | 300 | 18 | — | 28 | ||
| @garrytanMeal kit startup Gobble was burning $1M/mo, and Blue Apron's IPO poisoned the capital mark… | Founder | 299 | 20 | — | 28 | ||
| @garrytanSo you just raised the capital of your dreams (it could be $1M or $10M) to build your star… | Founder | 292 | 19 | — | 28 | ||
| @garrytanOne hard part about getting career advice from books is that biographical time frames are … | Lessons | 291 | 15 | — | 28 | ||
| @garrytanWhat are some of the best ways to come up with startup ideas? My list so far— 👣Problems y… | Founder | 286 | 62 | — | 30 | ||
| @garrytan20M software developers in the world— if you can convince this set of people in the world … | SaaS | 285 | 6 | — | 27 | ||
| @garrytanI get more out of a text chat with the average founder than reading their deck. Bad decks … | Founder | 285 | 15 | — | 28 | ||
| @garrytanAt the vanguard of every macro shift will be a multi-billion dollar startup. The Mom Proje… | Founder | 283 | 4 | — | 27 | ||
| @garrytanOne of the more remarkable things about product market fit is once you find it, there is n… | Product | 283 | 11 | — | 27 | ||
| @garrytanIf you don’t have a team or idea you absolutely must work on now, a better move is to find… | Hiring | 278 | 14 | — | 27 | ||
| @garrytanBetter questions for seed investors to ask: How many people will you hire and for what rol… | Founder | 277 | 8 | — | 27 | ||
| @garrytanWhat are the most clever examples of interaction design you can think of in the last 15 ye… | Product | 277 | 38 | — | 29 | ||
| @garrytanNPR’s piece on In Defense of Looting is purely irresponsible. I am a big fan of NPR and do… | Defence | 276 | 12 | — | 27 | ||
| @garrytanThere were two suicides in my YC batch in 2008. They were brilliant people who I miss. We … | Founder | 276 | 8 | — | 27 | ||
| @garrytanI think this is the cheapest good setup for Zoom that I have been recommending lately: Son… | Energy | 274 | 33 | — | 28 | ||
| @garrytanAgentic LLMs are going be the biggest revenue drivers for media brands and @usecapitol is … | AI | 271 | 98 | — | 36 | ||
| @garrytanWhen Ben Horowitz asks you who is CEO, you should have probably picked one before you step… | Founder | 268 | 13 | — | 27 | ||
| @garrytanPaul Buchheit on the virtuous cycle of hiring great people at Google: It became a cycle. T… | Hiring | 266 | 8 | — | 27 | ||
| @garrytanHow I got into @ycombinator in 2008 ⚖️ Deciding between being an editorial photographer fo… | Founder | 265 | 6 | — | 27 | ||
| @garrytanMy first job paid $7/hr making web pages. If you sell your time, you'll always be stuck be… | Hiring | 263 | 14 | — | 27 | ||
| @garrytanDecades of schooling train people to excel on arbitrary tests that are disconnected from t… | Founder | 262 | 10 | — | 27 | ||
| @garrytanExperienced product leadership will speed up your process, not slow it down. Hiring better… | Product | 257 | 6 | — | 26 | ||
| @garrytanWhy are YC companies worth YC demo day prices? Because you are more likely to find a multi… | Founder | 254 | 8 | — | 30 | ||
| @garrytanI totally underestimated how important the title and thumbnail is on YouTube. The best adv… | Lessons | 242 | 9 | — | 26 | ||
| @garrytanIf you can’t grow and you were growing before, often it’s because something broke in the s… | Engineering | 238 | 6 | — | 26 | ||
| @garrytanLean startups mostly fail because the median founder is bad at building things In fact bui… | Founder | 238 | 6 | — | 26 | ||
| @garrytanPapa just raised an $18M Series B to help fight the loneliness epidemic in our nation's el… | Founder | 236 | 10 | — | 26 | ||
| @garrytanAs I get older and move forward into my more venerable years, I hope to welcome failure as… | Growth | 235 | 9 | — | 26 | ||
| @garrytanUpdate, I've hit 546K views for the month, which is... 530K more than I did last month. I'… | Revenue | 233 | 22 | — | 27 | ||
| @garrytanNew YouTube series from me: Office hours, an education series on concrete skills you need … | Product | 233 | 14 | — | 26 | ||
| @garrytanHere’s how to build the absolute best teleconferencing webcam setup 📷 Sony Mirrorless 🔬 … | Hiring | 232 | 20 | — | 27 | ||
| @garrytanMonetizing Open Source: Business Models That Generate Billions 🎪 Maintain an open free fo… | Engineering | 231 | 7 | — | 26 | ||
| @garrytanIncredible activity these days around payment infrastructure. I think there is a deeper ma… | SaaS | 224 | 27 | — | 27 | ||
| @garrytanIt's a real strength to choose intrinsic motivation over extrinsic. e.g. for YouTube metri… | Career | 223 | 11 | — | 26 | ||
| @garrytanIt also makes me excited to fund great engineers, designers and product people who are rea… | Product | 223 | 11 | — | 26 | ||
| @garrytan“Truepill is what happens when you lock a software engineer with a pharmacist in a room fo… | SaaS | 221 | 7 | — | 25 | ||
| @garrytanGot an email from someone who got a job through one of my YouTube video interviews. It’s a… | Hiring | 218 | 7 | — | 25 | ||
| @garrytanLots of shade about Clubhouse— not the best look. When money is the topic, the crowd gets … | Product | 214 | 22 | — | 26 | ||
| @garrytanFell into Blender YouTube and I am impressed. Open source, tons of tutorials, and very pow… | Engineering | 214 | 19 | — | 26 | ||
| @garrytanI’ve been debated not saying it but keep seeing live and long form video that underscores … | Marketing | 212 | 18 | — | 26 | ||
| @garrytanYou may not be interested in politics but politics is interested in you. It’s been amazing… | Founder | 212 | 9 | — | 29 | ||
| @garrytanBetter, faster, cheaper for startups — in a nutshell 🎯 Better — Technical excellence, out… | Revenue | 212 | 11 | — | 26 | ||
| @garrytanLonger duration is one of the main ways smarter, more determined, higher EQ people make mo… | Science | 210 | 7 | — | 25 | ||
| @garrytanI wish the significance of the model came from more people actually using it and coming to… | AI | 208 | 23 | — | 33 | ||
| @garrytanI sat down with master growth marketer @mrsharma to learn how to build the next Coca Cola,… | Growth | 202 | 19 | — | 26 | ||
| @garrytan43% of professional women leave the workforce after having children. Many want to return b… | Revenue | 202 | 4 | — | 25 | ||
| @garrytanIn 2010, I was sitting in Benchmark's office on Sand Hill Road raising our Series A and Pe… | Founder | 202 | 20 | — | 26 | ||
| @garrytanThe Long-Term Stock Exchange raises $50 million in new funding Proud to back @ericries a… | Hiring | 201 | 5 | — | 25 | ||
| @garrytanYouTube is an interesting audience— what you think is 🔥 or what you spent a lot of time o… | Growth | 200 | 24 | — | 26 | ||
| @garrytanYou must be open minded to accept risk You must be vulnerable to grow Taking risks combine… | Growth | 199 | 4 | — | 24 | ||
| @garrytanCan a startup help bring thousands of new units of 1BR and 2BR housing online in Californi… | Founder | 197 | 13 | — | 25 | ||
| @garrytanVC performs about the same as S&P500 in aggregate. But the top 10% massively outperform, o… | Founder | 191 | 11 | — | 25 | ||
| @garrytanWanted to share my favorite tool for pre-product-market-fit founders searching the idea ma… | Product | 189 | 11 | — | 25 | ||
| @garrytanGet these 3 things right and you will nail your YC Interview. Also, a word of encouragemen… | Founder | 189 | 8 | — | 25 | ||
| @garrytanHere are three of the common 1,000 landmines founders hit on their startup journey— 🤕 Cha… | Founder | 187 | 6 | — | 24 | ||
| @garrytanGrowth mindset is the antidote to zero sum mindset that is infecting our world If only we … | Growth | 186 | 9 | — | 25 | ||
| @garrytanIt's remarkably important in 2020 for products and services to "win the Internet" - this m… | Growth | 185 | 10 | — | 25 | ||
| @garrytanWe need a startup visa and a rollback on the madness that is this administration’s immigra… | Founder | 184 | 3 | — | 24 | ||
| @garrytanNone other than legends @alexisohanian & @justinkan catching up at YC Alumni Demo Day a fe… | Founder | 182 | 2 | — | 24 | ||
| @garrytanTundra raised $12M from our friends at Redpoint! The $1 trillion B2B wholesale market is s… | SaaS | 181 | 5 | — | 24 | ||
| @garrytanTruepill cofounder @sidviswanathan spent over a year needfinding for his next startup befo… | Founder | 179 | 7 | — | 24 | ||
| @garrytanStorytelling for your Series A My partner @ndrewlee leads us through 4 storytelling tips t… | Founder | 179 | 5 | — | 24 | ||
| @garrytanIf you own the keys to your kingdom, the best thing you can do is systematize your values … | Hiring | 178 | 4 | — | 24 | ||
| @garrytanZeus raises $55M for property management done right (starting with corporate rentals) $100… | Revenue | 177 | 6 | — | 24 | ||
| @garrytanHopping out of an Uber in NYC, I ran into someone applying to YC who I had just given feed… | Founder | 172 | 9 | — | 24 | ||
| @garrytanGood editing in video and podcasts, just like good design in products and services, is abo… | Product | 172 | 8 | — | 24 | ||
| @garrytanJessica Livingston: In 2005, I cofounded Y Combinator, the first "accelerator." YC began t… | Founder | 171 | 0 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytanThis was me in 1995 — age 14. My parents were immigrants to the country. I remember at tim… | Product | 170 | 4 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytanGreat products exist but are often undiscovered CAC is the classic reason why you don’t he… | Growth | 166 | 5 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytanWhat skills do you need to go from software engineering to a product role? A PM must help … | Product | 166 | 4 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytanProud to lead Stacker’s seed round. Their no code platform is helping over 500 companies a… | Founder | 166 | 5 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytanAtoms shoes are so good, all the team has to do to recruit people to join the team is give… | Hiring | 165 | 20 | — | 25 | ||
| @garrytanHuge lesson for great builder founders: building gets you initial product market fit but w… | Product | 165 | 3 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytanIt’s pretty clear he is not doing his job because not doing his job is the point. The soph… | Hiring | 165 | 17 | — | 25 | ||
| @garrytanOne thing I am starting to realize is if you can’t get either, the founder is better off c… | Founder | 164 | 10 | — | 24 | ||
| @garrytanHuge get for Airbnb and amazing role for Ahmad One of my favorite things about Airbnb is h… | AI | 163 | 13 | — | 30 | ||
| @garrytanEngineering hiring broadly is broken because if you didn’t go to Stanford Google Facebook … | Hiring | 162 | 7 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytanIncredibly proud of being able to help Brian identify that moment of product market fit, o… | Product | 162 | 5 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytanSeriously burn it because if you stack a pile in the corner those things mold. Also you ne… | Revenue | 162 | 6 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytanI've been doing a lot of Instagram DM advice lately, and this is becoming apparent: most f… | Revenue | 161 | 5 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytanZeus is the software eating the property management business. Coolest thing about this co?… | Revenue | 161 | 4 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytanOne of my directs once told me in a 1:1 early in my career as a founder: "I've never been … | Career | 159 | 6 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytanOne of the more important things early founders need to hear is: Zoom Out The process of s… | Founder | 159 | 6 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytanGrowth Culture > Zero Sum Performance-Obsessed Culture Growth = see through blind spots, a… | Growth | 158 | 4 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytanI spent one meaningless summer interning at a doomed B2B electronic parts marketplace in 2… | SaaS | 157 | 8 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytan2nd most common mistake: Describing what a startup does, but failing to communicate why it… | Founder | 154 | 6 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytanGreat reminder from @stevesi on a day like this: for founders and leaders know each person… | Hiring | 153 | 3 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytanJust posted my newest YouTube vlog— How to Avoid the Cofounder Trap @alexisohanian and I s… | Founder | 152 | 7 | — | 23 | ||
| @garrytan56% of dogs are obese, and dog food is part of the problem Former Casper execs are buildin… | Founder | 152 | 15 | — | 24 | ||
| @garrytanFor my startup Posterous, my conviction we would prevail clouded my ability to see reality… | Founder | 152 | 16 | — | 24 | ||
| @garrytanTwitter should really treat drafts as more durable than it does in their apps. Lost a bunc… | Engineering | 150 | 8 | — | 23 |