Garry Tan ✓
@garrytan · San Francisco, CA · joined 02 Jan 2008
President & CEO @ycombinator —Founder @garryslist—Creator of GStack & GBrain—designer/engineer who helps founders—SF Dem accelerating the boom loop
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The ceiling on what we can do is so much higher now!
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Quite frankly one of the most cracked team of product engineers in SF today
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we're hiring engineers of @AsideAI
$160k-300k + significant equity, in-person SF
we're growing crazy fast (25% WoW) and now building v2
join us if you wanna build the harness from the ground up (memory, computer use, compaction, agent loop) and compete with frontier labs
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I've intellectually known that software engineering was going to go away but it's just started to feel real.
The little dopamine rushes — learning a language, reconfiguring keybindings, upgrading packages or pushing around code on a page to make it easier to read — fade in the
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Capy (@capydotai) lets me drop PRs much much faster than I would with Codex or Claude Code alone https://t.co/s6xeWJahvJ
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If you're working on something cool, GStack does actually tell you to apply to YC :-)
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If you really think about it Cluely as a realtime thought helper and semi-adversarial assistant with ongoing context is still a good idea
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Very useful insight from a portfolio founder: VCs are using Granola and feeding notes into a poorly prompted version of Claude to evaluate and pick apart what founders are saying mid-pitch. The frustrating thing is that AI tends toward groupthink...so "trends" on the internet
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Not really sure how @capydotai does it, but it really is able to track multi-step workflow and do large PRs faster than Codex or Claude Code on its own. My most favorite new agentic coding secret weapon in my arsenal the last week.
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I mean the data center panic is absurd and unnecessary but I can’t argue with the outcome if true
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They’re gonna “Art of the Deal” this thing.
1. Propose enormous data center
2. Public erupts in opposition
3. Propose massive housing development instead
4. Public applauds and thanks the developers for listening
(housing was the plan all along) https://t.co/kdDV5P6dMP
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Damn! @garrytan, I was not aware of your game.
This is so cool.
Codex was invoking gstack skills and somewhere in trenches, I get this message in my stream. https://t.co/cAxqAOpRMZ
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Stop racial discrimination in the University of California system
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Memorable found a way to optimize memory with embeddings instead of more tokens which is a powerful new way to do memory
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Introducing Memorable (YC S27): PROCEDURAL MEMORY FOR AI AGENTS
AI agents today are born, work, and die inside a single context window. They solve a hard problem once, then start from zero when it returns.
Memorable turns successful runs into a graph of reusable https://t.
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Read more about the UC's 30-year quest to defy bans on racial discrimination: https://t.co/sMSsap5R9F
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Be careful what you wish for
This is why we need alignment to humankind vs any other goal
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The future is already here
We just have to choose it and spread it faster
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I think every AI harness needs to support Tailscale
Muse and Grok Bot do it out of box
Codex and Claude Code cloud containers are missing this right now
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This is why I think “we’ll just get ASI and tell the AI to solve climate change for us” is the most likely way a Real Paperclip Maximizer scenario manifests: the AI concludes that human civilization is the main cause of climate change and deletes it. https://t.co/KeVlE893Nz
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Excited to speak at @Supabase Select in conversation with the amazing @kiwicopple about building startups in the time of AI
Register for the event and join me: https://t.co/jNY2QcB6cU
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Can we all just pause for a sec and reflect on how fucking important Tailscale is, and how nobody ever talks about them? I don't think I've ever seen a more useful service with a more invisible corporate footprint.
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I can use any harness I want and it's the same personality and full memory of my personal AGI
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It’s beautiful how I use @Muse and @NousResearch Hermes simultaneously, and I legit lose ZERO context because they are connected to one brain. One Gbrain. @garrytan gbrain truly underrated.
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the amount of deeply personal, & actually actionable ai training data fb is likely generating right now through muse is likely insane. even if peripheral.
stuff like what ppl see, want, ask, choose, buy, ignore, & act on. esp through the connectors. it’s basically onavo built in
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I just started using @capydotai with GStack/GBrain on some fix waves on outstanding issues/PRs and it did what would have taken a day with raw Codex/Claude Code in about half as much time, using the same frontier models.
I'm amazed.
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Interesting to realize this peptides boom didn't start in SF but rather the midwest in bodybuilding subcultures
I recently started using peptides with @Ronan_RX and I've lost 18 lbs in two months!
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I think @AsideAI AI browser/harness is one of the most powerful consumer AI tools you could possibly use with your agents, wherever they are
Aside MCP exposes deep browser use tools with credentials that make any agent much more powerful https://t.co/FTjv7vqBIe
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The content about startups we do is merely the teaser for the specific advice we give 1:1 when you actually are a YC startup
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Against accounts of the same size
63 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views67 394this account14 648median for 1M–10M
Reach, %6.03%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %0.64%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 67 394 | 14 648 | 4.60× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 6.03% | 0.74% | 8.15× |
| Engagement rate | 0.64% | 0.70% | 0.92× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
121K17 Sep
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.77%17 Sep
1.15%19 Sep
0.23%20 Sep
0.94%21 Sep
0.45%
0.62%
0.22%22 Sep
0.44%
0.60%
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1.24%23 Sep
0.70%
0.55%
0.57%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Likes67.9%22 823 in total
Reposts3.0%1 017 in total
Replies5.6%1 874 in total
Quotes1.1%371 in total
Bookmarks22.4%7 512 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
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Daily snapshots since 22 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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