Garry Tan

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

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

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]

"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: https://t.co/0HiusBQwCD

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

Have you invested in Jesus?

Come explore here: https://t.co/FFGJxnkJmV

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Seems ill advised for Nvidia’s board to oust Jensen Huang given how central his leadership is to the operations of an engine of our future abundance.

His day to day is prime actor work. Would be hard to believe a transition happens without massive market cap implosion.

[Lee Edwards @ledwards]

So the reason S.F. had a normie lib wave is the same reason the nation had a normie lib wave.

Socialism broadly unpopular. News at 11.

[Jessica Livingston @jesslivingston]

Now that everyone's talking about Elizabeth Holmes again, we should recalibrate by hearing the story of the original whistleblower, Tyler Shultz.

https://t.co/20btEDsT1z

[Jan Senderek @jans]

In 2014, I sold my first company Loom to Dropbox.

Today, I’m proud to announce Roma 2.0 (YC F26): the first to-do list for AI agents.

Everyone uses a different agent: Claude, Grok Bot, Muse…

Until now, none of them could work together.

Roma automatically creates tasks and hands them to the right agent.

Allowing you and your agents to work together, with shared context.

Try it here: https://t.co/w9Ag9OrTUO

[Suhail @Suhail]

We completely maxed out all our inference compute in 2w across customers. Incredible. There’s so much room to get better still.

Unreal.

If you have a friend good at post-training or inference perf optimization, please intro us. 5 person team rn.

$20K referral award.

[Z Reitano @ZReitano]

https://t.co/KSkuRhqTxn

[ApoStructura @ApoStructura]

Reminder that the “datacenters use too much water” problem is fake.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

@BenjieMalinao The code is writing it down

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Register here https://t.co/ETqr9HiYKG

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Come out next week for the Acts 17 event with @hubermanlab

[Michelle Stephens @mddstephens]

Good food, drink, music, and conversation about living a life not for money, fame, power, happiness, health, or wholeness. What’s left? Come discover what @hubermanlab has to say and what happens in these @ACTS17org rooms - invite in the comments.

[Simon Willison @simonw]

When Anthropic release a new model it's always worth taking a look at their updated prompting guide - here's an entertaining tip to make Fable 5.2 less likely to be cautious in how it improves existing code: tell it "This codebase is yours" https://t.co/mKjdw4QPxV

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Leftists are scrambling to take ownership of this Democratic victory, but in fact it was the normie libs who rose up against Trump, while leftists focused their fire on Democrats

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

@Alfred_Lin 🙏

[Alfred Lin @Alfred_Lin]

In the early days of Palantir, Garry asked Alex Karp why they were putting him up at the Mandarin Oriental. They were kids at a startup, Motel 6 would do.

Karp's answer: "you're going to go and talk to such and such general, or such and such VP of some Fortune 500. And you're going to show this incredible software you've built. Then as you go out the door, they're going to make small talk and ask how long you're in town. And if you say you're staying at the Motel 6, that says something about what Palantir is. And they're going to think this is Motel 6 software. And guess what: Palantir is not Motel 6 software. Palantir is Mandarin Oriental software."

Every detail tells the customer who and what you are. The best founders and operators know that and obsess over the details. If you're pitching Walmart or Costco, you should take a Greyhound bus and sleep on a friend's couch.

Garry covers a lot more in this episode, like Big Tech vs startups, how his upbringing made who he is today, and how agents evolve from here. Worth a listen.

[Ilya Fushman @ilyaf]

AI is making @Rippling's compound software strategy more powerful than ever. Great conversation with @parkerconrad on building a compound AI company and where Rippling AI is headed.

[AJ Asver @_aj]

What if your agents could improve themselves and use fewer tokens as they run?

The labs aren't incentivized to do this, so we built ourselves, and now we're open-sourcing our entire self-improving agent platform and control plane.

And it works with Claude/Codex/Pi agents.

[Jamison M @Jmerc3030]

Got a stack of forms from a new doctor. I told GBrain: fill these out and fax them wherever it says. It filled in what it knew, asked me for the few things it didn't, and faxed it. Shared it so you can copy it:

https://t.co/HeJkKgIRVN

[Miguel Ríos Berríos @MiguelriosEN]

We are turning AgentRun into a fully featured, open source, managed agents platform. All the good stuff we did for our own harness like:
- self-improving agents
- @typesafeai's Jev and @p0's web-grounded workflows
- A wide range of sandboxes and computers
- 1000s of tools and integrations through @MonidHQ and @composio
- In depth analytics about your agents

You can bring your own agent with AgentRun. It supports Pi, Claude Agents, Codex, OpenCode and other harnesses with ACP support. Host it in @render with an @openrouter key or try it now in https://t.co/iEpet10jTX.

Read more: https://t.co/IBYt4Ockpy

[Suhail @Suhail]

Our model particle-1: "A review costs us 2 to 3 cents."

We're going drive cost per task down to zero!