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Garry Tan

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Garry Tan

@garrytan

President & CEO @ycombinator —Founder @garryslist—Creator of GStack & GBrain—designer/engineer who helps founders—SF Dem accelerating the boom loop

San Francisco, CA

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Joined January 2008

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Garry Tan
@garrytan
Aug 11, 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
@technology
Aug 11, 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
Bloomberg
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Bloomberg
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Garry Tan
@garrytan
Apr 14, 2025
"To fund his golfing ambitions, McIlroy's parents took on extra jobs. Gerry worked 100 hours a week; he cleaned toilets and showers at a local sports club in the mornings, served as a bartender at Holywood Golf Club from 12 to 6 pm, then returned to the sports club to work behind
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Garry Tan
@garrytan
May 30, 2025
Hey guys this is racism
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Garry Tan
@garrytan
Apr 1, 2021
My best career advice: At every job you should either learn or earn. Either is fine. Both is best. But if it's neither, quit.
Garry Tan
@garrytan
May 28, 2025
One state ***increased*** its reading literacy for the bottom 10% of students while 49 other states let standards keep slipping. It was the poorest state in the country, Mississippi. In 2013 they enacted a rule where at 4th grade if you can’t read, you repeat until you can.
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Garry Tan
@garrytan
Dec 25, 2024
Keep skilled immigration legal
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Garry Tan
@garrytan
Mar 14, 2025
In-N-Out puts cash into fresh beef and well-paid people. McDonald’s feeds corporate overhead. Result? In-N-Out makes nearly double per store while making a far better product cheaper. I would always rather be In-N-Out.
ᶠᵃⁿ In-N-Out Burgers
@innoutburger_
Mar 13, 2025
Fun Fact: In-N-Out is cheaper than McDonald’s yet serves better quality burgers and fries.
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Garry Tan
@garrytan
Dec 28, 2024
Absolutely incredible
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Garry Tan
@garrytan
Nov 13, 2025
Little bro just enjoy elementary school don’t do this yet Go make some Roblox games though
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Garry Tan
@garrytan
Feb 19, 2023
George Orwell, 1984: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.
Walter Kirn
@walterkirn
Feb 19, 2023
Writers may wish to rethink their ambitions. If their work should prove lastng, it may end up being tortured for all eternity This is not mere "sensitivity" editing, by the way. This is blunt, agenda-driven rewriting. It is idea injection. And it will be continual once it starts
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Garry Tan
@garrytan
Feb 8, 2025
Shaan Puri
@ShaanVP
Feb 7, 2025
new blog: triangle of talent
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Garry Tan
@garrytan
Aug 22, 2025
If you *only* used SAT to admit to elite colleges, share of admits from top 1% income falls 15.8% → 9.9% and representation from <$200k rises by +8.8%, with no reduction in post-college outcomes. It's 'holistic review' and 'ban SAT' policy that allows the most wealthy and
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Garry Tan
@garrytan
Jun 13, 2025
New York City please don’t do this to yourself —A San Franciscan
Adam Singer
@AdamSinger
Jun 13, 2025
It's hard to imagine NYC, the heartbeat of American capitalism, elects someone who thinks about the world at the level of an angsty teenager
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Garry Tan
@garrytan
Jun 30, 2025
We are trying to create thousands of new billionaires over here
NewsWire
@NewsWire_US
Jun 29, 2025
ZOHRAN MAMDANI: 'I DON'T THINK THAT WE SHOULD HAVE BILLIONAIRES'
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