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Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL]

@garrytan-mirr.selfhosted.social
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President & CEO @ycombinator —Founder @garryslist—Creator of GStack & GBrain—designer/engineer who helps founders—SF Dem accelerating the boom loop // Mirror crossposting Twitter account to Bluesky. Unofficial. DM for takedown / claim ownership.

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Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mirr.selfhosted.social · 3h
When everyone is building the same primitives it does speak to needs that will only intensify from here And we will eventually converge on the correct OS
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 02/10/2026
RT @blingdivinity: the post agi future is infinite undergrad for everyone forever. study, socialize, drink, party, hobbies, clubs, arts, sports, dating, fucking, status games college is already economically useless except self development and gaining experiences. thats what the future will be for
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roon [UNOFFICIAL] @tszzl-mirr.selfhosted.social · 03/10/2026
this chart should be the death knell for the 2010s tech left whose theology compelled them to argue that Uber was some sort of labor law arbitrage that created no productivity benefits. the truth is that it created a far larger market than taxis ever had. the industrialists win
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 04/10/2026
RT @Twolfrecovery: "Chesa is one of the most principled, ethical, and approachable elected officials I've ever had the pleasure of working with." -Gary McCoy. Absolutely disqualifying. D8 can and must do better. #SanFrancisco
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 03/10/2026
RT @robkhenderson: Interesting: rbaumeisterexistentialcontrarian.su…
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 03/10/2026
RT @garryslist: California is full of people whose families gave up everything to build a better life here. Garry's List is where they come together to protect the California Dream. Every name tells a story.
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 02/10/2026
RT @ycombinator: Congrats to @kiwicopple, @AntWilson, and @supabase on their $150 million round at a $10.65 billion valuation! More than 13 million developers use Supabase as the backend for their apps.
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 03/10/2026
RT @kane: SF supervisor candidate @garymccoysf was an exec at an NGO embezzling tax dollars who tried to sue people for retweeting a meme about him. He’s also a convicted felon who supports drug use on SF sidewalks. Absolutely do not vote for him.
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Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mirr.selfhosted.social · 03/10/2026
Just deleted about a thousand lines of markdown from gstack because frontier models are good now and the old tricks generally you don’t need anymore
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 02/10/2026
RT @ycombinator: This week’s Paper Club is all about alternative compute. Modern AI has been shaped by a tight coupling between transformers, backpropagation, and GPUs. But as compute efficiency starts to plateau, there may be very different ways to build the machines that come next.
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 02/10/2026
RT @robkhenderson: "Since American children...weren’t being taught what happened under actual socialist regimes, it was only a matter of time before simplistic slogans attacking private property,
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 02/10/2026
RT @lina_colucci: It's mind blowing to me that we can give people real-time video at the same price as real-time voice 🤯
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 02/10/2026
RT @TheCoppinger: 60% of the latest YC batch are using @supabase 🤯 also, woz hype intensifies 😂
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 02/10/2026
RT @jakemintz: I misunderstood this when it launched. This is the first / best true agent<>human collaboration space I have seen. You are sharing a whole computer with AI and can collaborate on anything.
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 02/10/2026
RT @SusanDReynolds: Voters should never forget that Gary McCoy, a longtime executive at harm reduction grift machine HealthRight 360, is a proven liar and a bully: He fudged the numbers at the Linkage Center and lied about successes that never happened.
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 02/10/2026
RT @trycua: 1/ We're reimagining what it means for your agents to work with all your computers. Today we're excited to share Cua Spaces, built on Cua Driver and our virtualization stack, rolling out on macOS today. Download it now, it's free and source-available: spaces.cua.ai
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Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mirr.selfhosted.social · 02/10/2026
Surprising cool @capydotai cross-session coordination I wasn't expecting: My GBrain collaborator Sina started a fix wave that is even steering around all of the things I'm already working on across multiple Capy threads. All model agnostic.
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 02/10/2026
RT @VirtualElena: when we think about ai in the physical world, we usually default to thinking about humanoids or self-driving cars or or models helping scientists discover new drugs and materials.
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Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mirr.selfhosted.social · 02/10/2026
My goal with GBrain: I want our agents to feel as native, expressive, and inevitable as the web eventually did—not as a chatbot feature, but as a personal Jiminy Cricket that knows you and helps you 24/7 always on, always thinking ahead, always improving.
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
RT @bradflora: YC gets founders into the room where it happens.
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Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mirr.selfhosted.social · 02/10/2026
True 5 years ago True today x.com/garrytan/status/1377661970178…
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 02/10/2026
RT @Twolfrecovery: This is likely your new D8 Supervisor San Francisco. He wants to decriminalize drugs and use your tax dollars to give free drugs to all the homeless drug users in the city. My God. @garrytan
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
RT @sdianahu: more benchmarking towards long term horizon tasks that feed into self recursive improving loops for sw and one of them is getting agents do successfully oncall for production code that they may be shipping themselves
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 02/10/2026
RT @war24182236: Pay attention closely and hear me out Connie Chan is unfit to serve in ANY office. She would be a GENERATIONAL FAILURE in Congress. Look no further than how she treats residents in her own neighborhood.
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 02/10/2026
RT @ycombinator: Startup School is coming to Taipei on November 12! 🇹🇼 Hear from founders like @andyfang of DoorDash, @jeffchanginvest of Vest, @moseslo of Xendit, @mchiang0610 of Ollama, and more. And join builders and hackers from across Asia for a day of talks and sessions with YC partners.
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
RT @hanlonbt: You can just fix things. Prof. Elmendorf explains how @cayimby -sponsored bills (all of them!) work to remove CEQA as a barrier to urban housing.
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RT @zealcaiden: “make a techno optimist music video full of hype moments and insane motion graphics”
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
RT @kane: > Progressive NGO > “we’ll fix homelessness!” > get $250M from @sfgov > embezzle money > commit crimes > increase homelessness > shut down
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
RT @sdianahu: AI passing the Turing test 2022 was chat -> 2023 was voice -> 2026 is video with Tavus!!
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Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mirr.selfhosted.social · 02/10/2026
Harm accelerationist Gary McCoy is going to ruin San Francisco
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Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mirr.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
Pretty wild the woman in this video is a realtime generated agent
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
RT @vivianmshen: I’m joining @ycombinator as a General Partner. YC is a homecoming for every GP. All of us were previously YC founders, and lived the journey that we support founders through every day. Our alma mater taught us the lessons that we pass on.
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
RT @garryslist: Three strangers on my red-eye spent the whole flight talking about California. Housing. Families who need room. Friends who left for more space and a yard. Eventually the conversation got heavier, a little more helpless. Then one said: "That's the thing, what are we gonna do?"
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Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mirr.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
Modus built an open-source test of whether AI can do actual junior-auditor work, not just answer accounting questions. Every job in the world will end up having eval benchmarks like this.
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Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mirr.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
YC has the largest partnership in history now - 19 including me. We all went through YC and are alums and founders ourselves. I'm so proud to welcome Vivian and Raphael to the partnership.
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
RT @raphaelschaad: Life update: dropping the "Visiting" — I'm joining @ycombinator as a General Partner 🤩 YC was my first choice as a founder in 2019. Seven years later, I'm choosing it again.
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Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mirr.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
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Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mirr.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
GBrain now supports Jev. Retrieval is unchanged but remembering/dream cycle works better.
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
RT @justinsunyt: Introducing Capy Desktop: the best way to orchestrate coding agents across all your devices Remote control and access local files/shells from any machine Close your laptop and Capy continues in the cloud Now available for MacOS, Windows, and Linux Comment for $100 in credits
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
RT @ycombinator: Halluminate is building reinforcement learning environments and benchmarks to help AI models do knowledge work beyond coding, starting with finance.
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
RT @ishaan_jaff: Today we’re launching LiteLLM Lens. @LiteLLM is already the chokepoint for 100% of your enterprise’s AI traffic. We believe the next era of the gateway is using the data flowing through it to help your agents improve.
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
RT @vivianmshen: Incredible day at the @ycombinator startup industrial base conference. It was an honor to speak to Senator @TimSheehyMT about his experience as a Navy SEAL officer, founder, and now senator - and how Congress can support founders.
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 30/09/2026
RT @mernit: The most valuable advice we got during YC was to explain our company using verbs instead of nouns. Early on, I walked into a pitch and did the complete opposite: “We’re reinventing the cloud for AI” No one had any clue what that meant.
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Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mirr.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
*chefs kiss*
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 30/09/2026
RT @MissionLoco: Every single person in the 4 left columns of endorsements has been thrown out of office by San Francisco voters. Jajajajajaja — It’s like getting an endorsement for your Ponzi scheme from Bernie Madoff, George Santos, and the board of Enron.
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 30/09/2026
RT @incitafusio: A serial perpetrator, w/ history assault & robbery with guns, even at 17yrs old & no accountability. Multiple robberies targeting Asian Americans. SF & CA continues to protect criminals over victims.
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Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mirr.selfhosted.social · 01/10/2026
Other code editors let you top down coordinate child agents I’ve never really seen this where agent swarms speak to one another as peers and self coordinate allowing you to organically explore the space instead of pre-arrange it, have you? Capy is special
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 30/09/2026
RT @lucas0choa: "It's instinct but actually for work" for Instinct & Muse, work and compliance was an afterthought; that's why we built Ace. Ace has its own computer, email, phone number, and logins. You onboard it like a new hire and it just gets work done.
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Retweeted by Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mir-rt.selfhosted.social · 30/09/2026
RT @ycombinator: We're hosting an evening in SF with @oakhcft and π for early-stage builders in physical AI: robotics, autonomy, and intelligent hardware. Join us for a fireside chat with @physical_int co-founder @QuanVng on what it takes to build in the physical world.
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Garry Tan [UNOFFICIAL] @garrytan-mirr.selfhosted.social · 30/09/2026
Follow along today. We are live streaming from DC on how startups are helping build the future of defense tech in America
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