Garry Tan (@garrytan) started following @jaymehoffman on Oct 7, 2024

Founder Mode was a hot topic everywhere I went. The attitude felt more “no bs” than I can remember. Lots of talk around being hands-on and deeply invested in every aspect of your company—without crossing into micromanagement. Frustrations with and talk of ending remote work

While much of the world has ignored or even tried to kill crypto, its future is quietly being built by a small group of heads-down, laser-focused YC alum. I caught up with several teams, including @jpren and @brianli101, who were crystal clear on their KPIs, had bold goals, and

RT @Bible365_: Pray. 🙏 https://t.co/oQoA3WpsYD

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Nobody wants to switch their HCM system (or any system really) 2x in 12 or even 24 months, so important to make sure you think about where your vendors are going vs just where they are today. Low R&D investment = same legacy product for years to come.

just integrated my EchoSign eSignature account with Twitter https://t.co/zAS2T1Z9Xp

One thing I noticed in the most recent @ycombinator batch is how many of the fastest-growing companies sold AI agents. They’re going to be huge. Jared’s tweet thread is a phenomenal breakdown of how they’re made, and what sets the best ones apart.

I was pondering this morning how OpenAI's $6.5b raise is pretty incredible -- and also less than California has already spent on a high-speed train to nowhere. It's actually a little crazy that government capital is so misallocated in the US. Not sure why it happens.

I think I might rank Safai over him https://t.co/spoJwjyuhV

RT @kane: “I was just noting what people were chanting” > couldn’t be bothered to note the targeting and vandalization of Jewish businesse…

RT @kane: people in masks and keffiyehs are defacing Jewish businesses in the San Francisco Mission and the Mission Local blog @MLNow is ch…

RT @terronk: Outrageous. Hillary Ronen, what are you doing about blatant antisemitic hate against local businesses in your district? Manny…

RT @jasonlk: .@Rippling CRO @mdplank came to SaaStr Annual 2024 with ex-@brexHQ CRO @samdblond to go an incredible deep dive on "Rippling’s…

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On prompt engineering: think of an educated lay person who has no specific information. Fun hack: show your prompt to a real human being. If they don’t understand, speak to them until they do. Then anything you needed to tell them verbally, add it to the prompt. https://t.co/rkERI82n7S

RT @alittlemorewine: This talk by @snowmaker and @alexandr_wang was probably my favorite of the @ycombinator alumni weekend reunion, and pr…

RT @leilavclark: One thing I noticed in the most recent @ycombinator batch is how many of the fastest-growing companies sold AI agents. The…

RT @snowmaker: Most prompts will start around 60% accuracy on a battery of 100+ tests. You have to keep iterating on the prompt until it p…

RT @micsolana: tag yourself i’m billionaire extremism https://t.co/wM59hHUwZt

RT @rohanpaul_ai: One of the great problems of this decade - "How do you get LLMs to hit 100% accuracy?" 01-preview shows us one great sol…

“There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals for government control in their ideal form, as they might work if run by able, disinterested men free from the pressure of

RT @snowmaker: CaseText is one of the first vertical AI agents to be deployed at scale. It's an AI legal analyst used by thousands of lawye…

RT @samsinger: It takes brave souls, like Brenda Grisham, to stand up the the tyranny of @AlamedaCountyDA Pam Price, who has physically thr…

RT @ekzhang1: did you know that most programming languages are just "C wrappers" https://t.co/kLW5a82MCy

RT @yanatweets: The Founder Mode Academy 🧡 I had some amazing interactions with fellow YC founders this week. Grateful to @ycombinator fo…

RT @hellosimar: When the founder of @webflow gives you insights at @ycombinator alumni reunion. The power of YC is 🔥🔥 https://t.co/jlitCf…

Vannevar Bush describing the Memex in 1945: “Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, ‘memex’ will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, https://t.co/f723cVF8Mw

RT @Noahpinion: YIMBYs are focused on housing and transit, which are extremely important. But to get walkable, livable cities like this, yo…

1,000 founders just got vaccinated against ‘manager mode’ at @ycombinator https://t.co/I4dO0q6wzu

Great founders like @jecastillof

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New Post on the Forbidden Website! Some people think AI is in a bubble. I don't think so. I think that the level of capital investment in AI can scale up another 100x. In fact, I'll argue: bubbles don't even really exist. https://t.co/NHUVuu6bEQ

Muscle relaxers aren’t OTC in the US? https://t.co/SqoCTOKybp

Met a bunch of @ycombinator W24 and S24 founders this week. I’m really glad the batches are back in-person, and the Dogpatch area looks amazing. I’m really excited to see these amazing young founders excel.

With Stacy @pavlyshyna_st on YC Alumni reunion https://t.co/hfTInczu5N

Waymo crushed bus in SF in front of YC Alumni party 😄 and blocked whole street https://t.co/hrmXlqdwiM

Hung out with some customers and friends today. Thanks @ycombinator https://t.co/UEFR7wCdF2

RT @svpino: We are about to see 10x faster code reviews. (By the way, I haven't seen step 3 below implemented before in a code review tool…

ordering door dash three times in one day is peak gluttony

I want to do a PhD so bad but I feel like I would drop out after a month

waymo just caused a deadlock situation with a bus door in front of the yc reunion afterparty entrance https://t.co/B2Zg2Z4rB7

that’s crazy, i think i’m doing a lot of things wrong now after the @alexandr_wang talk at the yc reunion “micro-management is just management” “over-caring is just caring” “cut the ‘delegation’ bullshit and care about every single detail”

RT @AlecStapp: Reminder that the Sierra Club is very bad https://t.co/tE5kjEDXoQ

RT @awilkinson: I've spent the last two days playing with Replit and my mind is blown 🤯 It reminds me of the first time I used WebFlow, bu…

RT @snowmaker: "You are the upper bound on how much people in your company care." This one really stuck with me.

RT @snowmaker: https://t.co/bkzxHhRzIz is one of the generational AI companies. Here's some wisdom @alexandr_wang dropped at the YC reuni…

RT @ycombinator: 2024 YC Alumni Reunion was a blast 💥 https://t.co/dwDHI8pX1o

RT @snowmaker: Amazing to catch up with so many alumni at the YC reunion today. Energy was incredible. https://t.co/Zcs1nW3VXc

God bless medicine and everyone who works in the medical field

RT @rohanpaul_ai: You can Crawl entire website with Claude 3.5 or GPT4 with @firecrawl_dev 💯 Its open-sourced and code in github - Turn…

RT @bobmcgrewai: Terence Tao on what math looks like after o1... https://t.co/hv4FmSuydV

RT @sahir2k: TIL goat group (which owns GOAT, Flight Club, Grailed and alias) is a YC company https://t.co/1uKilvmQPe

RT @luismariogm: 1,000 founders just got vaccinated against ‘manager mode’ at @ycombinator https://t.co/I4dO0q6wzu

RT @dsaezgil: “What people call micro-management is just management. What people call over-optimism is just optimism. What people call ov…

RT @dsiroker: “You are the upper bound for how much anyone at your company will care.” - @alexandr_wang to other founders at the YC reunion

RT @ejzim: One piece of evidence for @johnloeber’s thesis. At @ycombinator alumni day today, I learned that my peers are growing revenue wi…

I’m so sorry to miss all of you at the YC Reunion today. There is a family medical emergency I have to attend to. Please pray for healing and recovery for my mom. 🙏

Excerpt from: Why Vertical LLM Agents Are The New $1 Billion SaaS Opportunities https://t.co/2rtlFM8lAs

One bad experience with an AI agent and users give up, and often they never return. How do you get LLMs to hit 100% accuracy? https://t.co/cqB5g3iIEI

RT @nadavwiz: It’s only 2pm and I spoke to like 73 new @ycombinator founders so far ❤️‍🔥 https://t.co/4aWuXVRUvn

RT @gabor: I’m at the @ycombinator Alumni Reunion in SF today, please say hi! https://t.co/qhDi09axwx

RT @RobDance_: My best career advice: https://t.co/WV0xAqfKWW

This post left me struck w dissonance all day. I agree w @mwseibel that VCs dismissed PLTR as a consulting shop bc of the hands-on approach required to serve large enterprises But success via the unpopular path builds unique moats/capabilities. I fear YC underestimates these

Congratulations to my friend/biotech legend @rtnarch & the ARCH team. There’s noone who better exemplifies the values of entrepreneurialism, principled contrarianism, courage, and patriotism that we respect at @8vc - that’s why we love working with them ! https://t.co/BedxBloSfI

RT @garrytan: Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI *Important: https://t.co/20MWT1L3B4 is a standalone extension to VS Code and n…

RT @ycombinator: Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI https://t.co/bMrPq6yWqN

I couldn’t be more excited to share our latest AI research breakthrough. We call it Meta Movie Gen and it’s a collection of state-of-the-art models that combine to deliver the most advanced video generation capability ever created. Check it out: https://t.co/K4IxAVPO3y https://t.co/HawreKeavy

Looking forward to tomorrow … 👀