Garry is 100% correct about doing things in steps. The "art" of building LLM pipelines is understanding just how much the model can handle in terms of complexity and input token count. Sometimes you have to break things into multiple steps. Very similar to an actual team of people. A task like "design, ship, and monitor a product" is ridiculous to be one task. Gotta intelligently break up LLM calls into an execution graph/pipeline the same way
LOVE what garry said about importance of founder distribution - esp in dtc and the story about dinner w peter :) The whole ep is 10/10 - tan is the man bend the 🥄 !!
It’s funny when you think about it: even if you bend a spoon with your hand, you’re really just doing it with your mind by telling your hand what to do
They're not picking winners because of a better process, the YC process is very likely insane, except for the fact that many of the best startups only apply to YC lol. A lot of programmers/founders grew up reading PG's blog and became YC fans. So often they're picking up from the best pool of candidates, and even if they picked from the middle of the pack would probably still do well.
I resonate a lot with Gary. I also had no idea you could just go insert yourself into these startups. As a kid of the 90s I was chronically online learning to hack, code, and design. Read tons of tech blogs. On all the forums. I was constantly talking to all these guys online and helping with projects but had no idea I could just move to Silicon Valley and be apart of it. Wasn’t until I built my first company that I realized it 🤦🏻♂️
Ive moved a few times but not to SV. Lately I’ve been finding the tech/marketing hubs in my city and looking for group to join to network and hangout. I did sell my first biz. It was a theme page before that was an actual thing. It was on tumblr and I built a biz around the page in the adult niche. Sold 1 part to PH back when they were buying up competitors for next to nothing 🤦🏻♂️sold the actual page to a different person who basically shut it down and integrated the content into their own site. All said and done I pocketed around $30k but at the time I thought it was all the money in the world. Now I own an advertising agency been going strong for 12 years.
I resonte a lot with Garry Tan on the young entrepreneur side of things. I had that spark and made my first online sale when I was 13 with shopify and aliexpress linked to my website lol.
Thanks for the analysis! I need some advice: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?
Gary: my dad was basically unemployable so I bought my parents a house. Also Gary: we’re investing in the most cutting edge AI startups so that there will no jobs for anyone in 5 years.
Garry is 100% correct about doing things in steps. The "art" of building LLM pipelines is understanding just how much the model can handle in terms of complexity and input token count. Sometimes you have to break things into multiple steps. Very similar to an actual team of people. A task like "design, ship, and monitor a product" is ridiculous to be one task. Gotta intelligently break up LLM calls into an execution graph/pipeline the same way
Glad to see Garry Tan on here. We got VC Tech Startup and Solo-preneur ideologies coming together
Garry is a top tier guest
LOVE what garry said about importance of founder distribution - esp in dtc
and the story about dinner w peter :)
The whole ep is 10/10 - tan is the man
bend the 🥄 !!
Wow! This podcast is getting bettrer with time!
It’s funny when you think about it: even if you bend a spoon with your hand, you’re really just doing it with your mind by telling your hand what to do
2 of my favorite people having podcast!! 🎉
They're not picking winners because of a better process, the YC process is very likely insane, except for the fact that many of the best startups only apply to YC lol. A lot of programmers/founders grew up reading PG's blog and became YC fans. So often they're picking up from the best pool of candidates, and even if they picked from the middle of the pack would probably still do well.
Please also upload this to Apple podcasts!
The spoon story was really amazing
Very inspiring Gary, from 1 blue collar guy to another.
Great to hear Gary's back story.
Holy cow yall got Garry Tan?!
Love the bent spoon story. Also excited for AI to replace us all so we can pursue our passions and live off UBI
Is YC going to be Public anytime soon? Because I want to invest in them
I resonate a lot with Gary. I also had no idea you could just go insert yourself into these startups. As a kid of the 90s I was chronically online learning to hack, code, and design. Read tons of tech blogs. On all the forums. I was constantly talking to all these guys online and helping with projects but had no idea I could just move to Silicon Valley and be apart of it. Wasn’t until I built my first company that I realized it 🤦🏻♂️
Did you sell your company
so did you move yet?
Ive moved a few times but not to SV. Lately I’ve been finding the tech/marketing hubs in my city and looking for group to join to network and hangout. I did sell my first biz. It was a theme page before that was an actual thing. It was on tumblr and I built a biz around the page in the adult niche. Sold 1 part to PH back when they were buying up competitors for next to nothing 🤦🏻♂️sold the actual page to a different person who basically shut it down and integrated the content into their own site. All said and done I pocketed around $30k but at the time I thought it was all the money in the world. Now I own an advertising agency been going strong for 12 years.
Amazing discussion 🎉
My goal is really hard but us government was asking people for quantum computers by 2033. That's an amazing challenge. I am 23 years old.
It will be possible. You will do it
That guy summarized wonderfully why I left Google 4 years ago. Brb need to bend some spoons...
This guy's name might as well be Sara. Another top 5% guest. 💙
I resonte a lot with Garry Tan on the young entrepreneur side of things. I had that spark and made my first online sale when I was 13 with shopify and aliexpress linked to my website lol.
HAPPY MFM MONDAY
Thank you!
Looking forward to this
43:22 Sam: *texts Shaan* “did we just get alpha’ed?”
❓Can someone tell me what exactly he means by Evals?
super interesting
@8:15 Sam & Shaan lock in
Thanks for the analysis! I need some advice: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?
Sam forgets he's on camera sometimes
Brilliant pod guys!!! 👏
I've been thinking about creating a YC equivalent in the UK 😋
Loads of incredible techies here but we lack a YC equivalent 🤔
did anyone notice that Garry's video is crystal clear? AI filtered compared to hosts :)
Sam modeling the Zuck look ha!
8.3
Didn’t Brian Armstrong start an online tutoring service while in college (and sold it for a few million)? He definitely started a business before YC
YC ran by nepo babies
Why does every silicon valley vc need to use the term agency repeatedly to validate their investor status
repeat after me: "eval"
wow
❤
49:41 everyone should boycott working in office
Gary: my dad was basically unemployable so I bought my parents a house.
Also Gary: we’re investing in the most cutting edge AI startups so that there will no jobs for anyone in 5 years.
banger
Isnt this guy Israel's lapdog?
They invest in some amazing Israeli companies. Simply incredible over there
@@uknownutin3528 thats complicity in Genocide right there. Hard evidence because Israel is a Genocidal state. Thanks for pointing it out.
Simply incredulous... Super smart AI technology that makes g_n_c_de a fun video game
@@uknownutin3528 Complicit in War crime. Hard evidence.
@@msquarem2 prove it.
Free palestine
Mysterious, yet obvious. Hilarious, makes no sense. It's obvious then there is no mystery dude😅😅
BoooooOooring