This week I sat down with Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator. YC has funded 5,000+ startups including Airbnb, Stripe, DoorDash, Rippling, and Reddit, among others that have totaled $600B in combined valuation. Garry is a designer, engineer, and investor in early stage startups. Previously Founder & Managing Partner of Initialized Capital, an early stage venture capital fund that was earliest in Coinbase and Instacart. Before that, Garry was a partner at Y Combinator where he invested in and directly worked with over 700 companies at the earliest stage. He previously co-founded Posterous and helped build it to a world-class website used by millions (acquired by Twitter).Garry is a builder at heart.We covered: Running YC like a founder Advice for founders Picking winners What changes because of AI YC being the “YC of hard tech” Public serviceTimestamps:((((((((((Linktree: https://linktr.ee/uncappedpodTwitter: https://x.com/jaltmaEmail: [email protected]