Garry Tan (@garrytan) started following @EricsElectrons on Sep 25, 2024

RT @Kekomarieee: The entire TL is fake outraged over the execution of an alleged 15x felon. LMFAO. Y’all are never to be taken seriously.

Aggressively gullible people are way too often aggressively rude and hyper-sensitive.

I can't believe @tnachen & I have been running the Open Source Startup Podcast for ~4 years and hit 150 episodes😁 Time flies when you're having fun😉 Check out our episodes with founders from @huggingface @vercel @HashiCorp @supabase @getsentry & more👇 https://t.co/gChZwmMEDh

It’s extremely hard for seed & pre-seed funds to invest in YC companies today Valuation & dilution expectations just don’t work with a seed fund model The program can be great for founders but the new YC investment structure precludes funds outside of multi-stage from investing

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RT @alexdanilo99: Announcing the launch of our infinite canvas for generative UI. - Prompt for any design you want - Reference what you ha…

RT @Bobakkabob37: "In a statement, Lurie expressed confidence he could “overhaul the corrupt bureaucracy” but did not provide specifics on…

RT @rivatez: convincing a bunch of non-technical LA people to support your dumb AI safety bill is not the flex you think it is https://t.co…

Stop the Mission Blight Vote for @Trevor4SF

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You can have a great startup idea, but a great startup idea is like having a great plan for a fistfight. The moment the idea actually touches customers is like the moment you get punched in the face. What matters is what you do at that moment, not the plan.

"If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen." —Alan Watts

RT @dissproportion: DoorDash went from barely existing outside of major cities 5 years ago to being a human right. Which goes to show that…

RT @war24182236: Today is Tuesday and Glide line is getting long to get your free pipe nothing else no information to Detox are Rehab just…

RT @AravSrinivas: This is how Stan Druckenmiller found ways to invest in Argentina at the beginning of the year. https://t.co/Nzg7RisufH

This is the way https://t.co/JppOloeCby

My founder mode posters now in the wild in the hallways of YC SF https://t.co/IEf6BcN8Pr

San Francisco must fund recovery-first housing that has no drugs in it It is inhumane to force people by de facto requiring people to live in housing that is full of people abusing drugs PSH residents want recovery. Why won’t the city fund it?

You get collegial environments very rarely and when you get to be in them or you get to create them you must be very thankful And you can’t forget what allowed it to come together. It doesn’t come for free or automatically.

We all wish life was like college but I’m sorry to report it is at best high school

Generate. Preview. Ship

Just interviewed a cracked engineer. I asked for his feedback on the interview process. In his words: "I think the interview process had the friendliest interviewers I've ever met. I think fostering such an environment actually helps the interviewee present the best version of

i built an agentic framework at pluto and called tools “tools” and not functions i got asked why we didn’t use openai’s name today our first product using tools launched in march 2023 months before function calling

RT @RuiHuang_art: ep.1 https://t.co/9R3EjcbPt0

RT @markdietrichsf: Connie Chan tells Chinese voters that she represents them, then she turns around and votes the exact opposite of everyt…

RT @NielsHoven: Companies don’t steal wealth, they create it. The vilification of human progress is yet another failure of our educational…

RT @johncoogan: When it comes to productivity, there’s no price that’s too great to pay. https://t.co/XYCW0vl15c

RT @markdietrichsf: More lies from Connie Chan and her shadow org “Fix Our City SF” and their big, frightened union donors. Connie is RUNN…

RT @AndyLapsa: Five years ago today I made one of my hardest decisions: leave a stable and well-paying job to start something from scratch.…

RT @8teAPi: Singularity in sight. Crazy timeline to be in. https://t.co/olrRUWvaiL

RT @10x_er: superintelligence in a few thousand days and you're still contributing to a 401k

RT @bradflora: @NTmoney In fact there are 2 consumer finance companies building on top of stablecoins in the S24 batch. We put out a Reque…

RT @NielsHoven: How many billion-dollar companies were never founded because we spend the first two decades of kids’ lives training them to…

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These trash bloggers trying to keep San Francisco broken are no different than the racist stooges who pasted octopus stickers with my face on it all over the city But guess what, nothing you say will stop me. We are going to accelerate the boom loop https://t.co/uW4jFDKVoZ

Mission Local calls us “big money” but I donated my cold hard cash I earned with my own blood sweat and tears How much are the doom loop losers like Connie Chan and Dean Preston supported by corrupt union payoffs and nonprofits paid by city budget directly from public funds? https://t.co/zmY4mVTfJI

RT @MaxBrodeurUrbas: Since YC ended I've looked at 7k profiles for our founding engineer role The team has started helping me recruit usin…

RT @emissionite: We are fighting for the soul of our City and need to re-establish the norms of civility. There should be no place in our p…

RT @TSFAction: In 2018, Homelessness commissioner @christinevans passed Prop C to raise new homelessness taxes. Today her friend, Jennifer…

RT @KaniKinSF: “Progressives” are more mad at me for calling out Jordan Davis’ racist attacks than they are about her racism. On Friday at…

RT @MarjanPhilhour: Our Chinese community in the Richmond deserves better than @conniechansf's broken promises. She campaigned to dismantle…

$1B ARR and 4x YoY 👀

totally missed the bear sniffing the cursor 🥲 https://t.co/qqGGfBk0wr

The new bear logo animation on Jony Ive's https://t.co/Ky1SE0Vbhz is just 🤌 https://t.co/kn5U9ss2JM

RT @PsycheWizard: https://t.co/ccEShVAKyc

RT @lutherlowe: Great profile of @linakhanFTC tonight on 60 Minutes https://t.co/FpBa55pwAY

Fall Fix Fly

RT @markpinc: True. SF spends more per citizen and more per homeless person than any city in the world. When i opposed Prop C which more th…

RT @bgurley: I am 100% in agreement with @linakhanFTC on this one. Extending patents with bullshit mechanics is not open competition. And k…

RT @TheMarinaTimes: If you’re a D1 constituent this video should prove once and for all that Connie Chan doesn’t care what you think. This…

RT @kane: using more degrees of freedom to accomplish tasks slower is bad engineering https://t.co/avQCCw2vQW

RT @jiholimm: The new bear logo animation on Jony Ive's https://t.co/Ky1SE0Vbhz is just 🤌 https://t.co/kn5U9ss2JM

RT @evelynjunn: Too many people on TPOT mistakenly think VCs supposedly do nothing and simply leech off of surplus value. The vast majorit…

RT @zenorocha: I just published a big update on Bookface. We're giving $20,000 in credits to @ycombinator startups. Fun fact: @resend is…

@qustodio You are down on a weekend and our family was about to play Minecraft and now I can't give my kids more time to do it Their devices are currently bricked because you are down. You had *one* job

Qustodio is one of the worst pieces of software I've ever had to use. Can someone suggest a modern / well maintained replacement? Big plus if it does a bunch of LLM-based smart settings and notifications

RT @markdietrichsf: Just witnessed this smash and grab in my Richmond District neighborhood. The perps fled after chucking their breakfas…

RT @powerbottomdad1: san franciscans: really wish someone would arrest the people breaking my car window... or doing tokyo drift on the ba…

On the Talk Tuah podcast, Hailey sat down with controversial political commentator Han Solo, where he shared his surprising take on the frozen-carbonite-plunge wellness craze. “I actually freeze myself for 30 minutes a day now. Boba hooked me up with a home freezing chamber” https://t.co/k4RD6Wp3ku

They also sell a ‘Roll of Benjies’ for only $3.99, if you don’t want to use a real hundred dollar bill as your inhalation vehicle https://t.co/2DgNT50UJY

☀️ Rise and shine ☀️

It's a bad day to be a Lego https://t.co/nCGQsTl8fb

Hawk Tuah recently went viral for her rant on the state of the information environment and the population's cognitive resilience. "We really are living in a cognitive wild west. Most people have near-zero memetic defenses or cognitive security suited for the online age". She https://t.co/F7PShGosjV

"I never see you at the club" bro I never see you giving it all you got with no attachment to the result

Pitched a startup I couldn't get out of my head to my most cracked friend. Within 3 days he dropped out of uni, broke up with his gf, quit his job, and moved to the US. We just got a flat together in SF and are now working 24/7 to realize this vision. It's an issue that slows https://t.co/byXUgAppKB

It's official, I'm committed to building in SF and not going back @Stanford https://t.co/9fmNfNuMmx

We are so back

I don’t know but either is pretty good because @AskTaxGPT is gonna be huge

RT @ChKashifAli: Not bad for a boy from the remote part of Pakistan. Who failed English 3 times to get up on a stage and speak without a s…

It would actually make sense that Google should have interop teams whose job it is to make Google products open with APIs to other services otherwise the DOJ should break them up tbh Consumers deserve choice. Closed platforms should cause consequences for the world’s monopolies https://t.co/9HuraUK3Ag

RT @BrivaelLp: Today is a big day 🔥 @ycombinator alumni demo day https://t.co/6ym4OTmZKv

To be frank I think Airbnb could be 10X to 100X the current market cap

RT @garrytan: @Jason Jason this stat is fucked up You at most can only say 85%

RT @kane: I thought there was no way that the entire budget of Denver (pop 713k) is basically what San Francisco (pop 808k) politicians fri…

RT @jasonjoyride: The first ever look into @boomaero, captured during last Friday's XB-1 flight 3 on S3. Get an up close look at XB-1, th…

RT @paulg: Progress doesn't have to take the form of shiny things flying through the air, but I have to admit it's pretty cool when it does.

RT @weaverobotics: ☀️ Rise and shine ☀️

RT @boomaero: COMPLETED: XB-1 has successfully flown its 4th flight at the Mojave Air & Space Port in CA, just 8 days after 3rd flight. The…

RT @OrphicCapital: Hawk Tuah recently went viral for her rant on the state of the information environment and the population's cognitive re…

RT @SFDamnPodcast: 1️⃣The goal is having a permanently under-educated underclass in San Francisco, 2️⃣mission accomplished this is a featur…

RT @StartupArchive_: Airbnb founder Brian Chesky on how to design a product for a million people “How do you make something for a million…

RT @GrowSF: Prop 36 is seeing overwhelming support from voters across California, with 71% saying they’ll vote yes. Prop 36 will increase p…

Cracked team vibes here https://t.co/eAB07f6QcI https://t.co/199pWa7ygU

RT @binarybits: I've developed a bit of a reputation as an "AI skeptic," but I think I was just accurately reporting on the slow pace of LL…

RT @mpopv: I had honestly completely forgotten that it was an early version of o1 that sparked the board coup. Looks quite silly/odd in re…

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Absolutely amazing

Just found out about the new guitarist for Smashing Pumpkins, Kiki Wong @kikiwongo Was amazing to hear her tonight at Oracle Park https://t.co/UIniYgvjg2

RT @Noahpinion: Degrowth is a lot more powerful than you think. It's not just a few eurokooks saying "we shouldn't have washing machines".…

One clear goal of the boom loop is we need to stop doing this

RT @bubs: Getting close to @ycombinator Demo Day time… https://t.co/wrMVDPP4KC

RT @villi: What makes Silicon Valley special is that random people with no incentive come out of nowhere and offer help, access, and suppor…

RT @caseytraina: @JoinOverlap is now the world’s first (probably?) AI clipping algorithm powered symbiotically by @OpenAI o1 + @AnthropicA…

RT @Noahpinion: Nuclear fission is no longer the energy of the future. But for lots of engineer types, it serves as a sort of test case for…

RT @kane: san francisco should be safe and clean year round, not just for expensive conferences https://t.co/7kSDMl6qE3

RT @Gina_McDee: This is disgusting and despicable! This racist tirade is brought to you by a writer for @StreetSheetSF - a publication bro…

How do you prep for your first media interview? A guide https://t.co/YtrWmmLMfh

RT @rowancheung: In a recent interview with T-Mobile, Sam Altman compared o1’s current state to the ‘GPT-2 stage’ of reasoning models He a…

RT @Suhail: As soon as you convince yourself that what matters is compound growth, you stop looking for shortcuts and ignore short-term gai…

Disappointing reporting we’re seeing from @sfstandard and @sfchronicle. They are being fed stories by campaigns and running with them like a tabloid, creating “scandal” in self-perpetuating loops when there is nothing to see. @MarkFarrellSF is one of the most moral, ethical https://t.co/TRJ5MzHd1V

RT @MarkFarrellSF: Some say the City is coming back. But the truth is, we never left. Together, we can accomplish anything. It's time to m…

RT @Twolfrecovery: Dean Preston, commiting ethical violations by taking money from, of all places, The Democratic Socialists of America. Gr…

After my ethics complaint https://t.co/z28ZXqX4I4