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Change the Game Before the Game Changes You

The lives of so many successful people are wrecks behind the scenes. You might think that would never be you, but neither did they. Learn the traps that took them down so you don't make the same mistakes. I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people. Please like this video and subscribe to my channel if you want to

The Vale: Raising Builders, Not Consumers

Buy The Vale today: https://tinyurl.com/thevalelaunch https://www.abigailhingwen.com/the-vale/ What if your first $10M startup deal came from a game world? 🚀 I sat down with Abigail Hing Wen to talk about The Vale, a new adventure where coding, AI, and family hustle collide. It’s about big dreams, epic failures, and how the next generation of builders will change the game. I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world

Make Your Own Luck

Luck isn't random—it's a choice. Today, discover why taking risks, shifting your mindset, and turning setbacks into setups can manufacture your own luck. 1:20 Risk Creates Luck 3:22 Belief Creates Opportunity 5:07 Setbacks Create Setup I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups that touch a billion people. Please like this video and subscr

The Lesson of Craft

Legendary sushi master Jiro Ono harnessed the hidden power of compounding—thousands of tiny improvements—to elevate sushi into an art form celebrated globally. Today we break down Jiro's relentless pursuit of perfection and show you exactly how to apply his timeless strategy to master your own craft. I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and startups

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Don’t be thirsty

If you've ever pitched investors or chased love, you already know: desperation kills deals faster than anything else. In this video, discover why neediness repels opportunities and how true power comes from shifting your mindset from chasing to attracting. Stop being thirsty—start becoming undeniable. 1:01 My Failure 2:12 Why Scarcity Stinks 4:25 Self Reliance over Coffee Chats I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the w

Sam Altman: This is the best time to build a startup ever

We're in an AI gold rush right now.⁣ ⁣ The gap between what models can do vs what products exist is MASSIVE.⁣ ⁣ Costs dropping 5x week over week. Open source models getting incredible.⁣ ⁣ If you're building in AI - this is your moment. We're in an interesting time where there's a huge product overhang relative to what the models are capable of. The products that people have figured out to build is way down here, but there is a lot of **untapped** potential. This is the time to build something that leverages **ai reasoning** and **emergent behaviours** with **openai o3** to really utilize AI.

Sam Altman's advice to founders: Don't try to rebuild ChatGPT

Sam Altman's advice to founders: Don't try to rebuild ChatGPT⁣ ⁣ Build something different. OpenAI wants to be the platform that helps you succeed, not the competitor that crushes you⁣ ⁣ The real opportunity isn't copying what exists—it's creating what doesn't yet.

Steve Jobs' Hidden Blueprint for Insane Success

Before Apple, Steve Jobs hacked phones, hustled hard, and chased wild ideas nobody else dared to touch. Discover the three secret moves behind his insane success—and how you can steal them today. 0:58 Build Stuff You Desperately Want 4:06 Treat Business Like a Maze, not a Highway 7:10 Be Dangerously Curious I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These videos are about helping people build world-class teams and

Don't aspire to glory. Aspire to be useful.

Don't aspire to glory. Aspire to be useful.⁣ ⁣ Elon's formula: How useful are you × to how many people?⁣ ⁣ True work = maximizing that equation.⁣ ⁣ Kill your ego. Internalize responsibility. Keep your feedback loop to reality intact.

We're in an AI gold rush right now. The gap between what models can do vs what products exist is mas

We're in an AI gold rush right now. The gap between what models can do vs what products exist is massive. Costs dropping 5x weekly. Open source models getting incredible.This is the time to build something that leverages reasoning models.⁣ ⁣ WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!

That painful awe you feel toward successful founders? It might be your own untapped potential starin

That painful awe you feel toward successful founders? It might be your own untapped potential staring back at you.⁣ ⁣ Your golden shadow holds the qualities you admire most in others—boldness, vision, creativity.⁣ ⁣ Stop projecting. Start claiming what's already yours.

Save Your Startup, Unleash Your Golden Shadow

Startups rarely die from market wounds—they implode under fractures in the founder’s psyche. Carl Jung called the hidden brilliance inside that darkness the “Golden Shadow,” and mine almost leveled my startup, Posterous. This is the four-step playbook I forged for turning that inner saboteur into rocket fuel. 4:37 Save your startup 7:44 Unleash your Golden Shadow I'm Garry Tan, President & CEO at Y Combinator. I was an engineer, designer and product manager who turned into a founder and investor, and now I want to help you in your journey to build technology that changes the world. These v

This 18 yo Asian American genius got rejected from 16 colleges because of racism

Stanley Zhong—an 18-year-old coder hired by Google at a PhD-level role and praised by AWS—was rejected by 16 of the 18 colleges he applied to, including five UC campuses. He and his father Nan have sued the entire University of California system with 100-plus pages of evidence, demanding transparency and third-party oversight. Their fight echoes the SFFA v. Harvard decision and spotlights how “holistic” admissions can punish Asian-American excellence. In this video we unpack the lawsuit, the data behind it, and why merit-based fairness matters for every applicant. 1:55 The Hidden Bias Against

Legalize Math in California ft. Jelani Nelson

https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/ What you can do: find your legislators for an oversight hearing on how lax conflict of interest policies at the CA Department of Education allow revenue-generating curriculum creators undue influence in authoring curricular guidelines for CA public schools Follow Jelani Nelson on X: https://x.com/minilek?s=21 Right now in California, there’s a push to rewrite how math works — not just in the classroom, but in the law. Two bills — AB 1217 and AB 500 — are working their way through the state legislature. They would pressure to accept watered-down mat

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