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Uncapped with Jack AltmanRunning Y Combinator Like a Founder | Garry Tan | Ep. 7
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- April 17, 2025
- Duration
- 46m
- Channel
- Uncapped with Jack Altman
- Watch on YouTube
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
(If you enjoyed this, please like and subscribe!) 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 service
Timestamps: (0:00) Intro (0:25) Running YC like a founder (6:25) Focusing on growth and prosperity (12:40) Incredible pick rate (14:34) Role of the Group Partner (19:21) Lean vs fat startups (20:53) Archetypes of special founders (25:18) Rule changes because of AI (33:00) YC being the “YC of hard tech” (37:40) Community and political involvement Linktree: https://linktr.ee/uncappedpod Twitter: https://x.com/jaltma Email: friends@uncappedpod.com
SPEAKERS
Garry Tan
guestJack Altman
host
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Uncapped with Jack Altman, featuring Garry Tan and Jack Altman, Running Y Combinator Like a Founder | Garry Tan | Ep. 7 explores Garry Tan on founder-mode leadership, YC strategy, AI, politics insights Tan describes taking a “zero-based accounting” approach to YC—pruning programs and decisions back to what would be built from scratch—while treating culture (who you hire/fire/promote) as the core lever.
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