Garry Tan (@garrytan) started following @rauchg on Sep 24, 2024

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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

i know claudeslop when i see it

it’s kinda messed up all puppers are doggos but not all doggos are puppers

RT @ycombinator: Congrats to the team @LuminateMed (YC S21) on the $15M Series A! Luminate makes devices that help cancer patients prevent…

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RT @incitafusio: David Heller needs to step down as president of the Geary Merchants Association for assault & @conniechansf needs rein in…

RT @amasad: How could computers multiplying numbers lead to "literal human extinction?" Doomers never say how, and politicians never press…

This same person still works and is prominent and featured in campaigns run by some of the most brain rotted hard leftists

RT @Twolfrecovery: When you think about it, the 2nd most powerful politician in San Francisco was elected by 3.2% of voters in the city. Da…

RT @KarinaVlaw: Any comments @ryankhoj your supporter Jordan is attacking an immigrant woman from Sri Lanka who came to the United States s…

RT @96hoya: I am amused by @AaronPeskin running as the one who will eliminate the corruption. After the city stared a probe into Mohamme…

RT @EricaJSandberg: 71% of CA want Prop 36 to pass. some SF candidates do not support this measure. if they don't, would you vote for them?…

You’re going to see the hard left in San Francisco get desperate and violent But SF is worth it. We won’t be intimidated.

Did I mention I support Kamala Harris and find we are alike in many ways https://t.co/v0NgsmCrgX

One of the sadder things in SF is that political opponents seem to revel in doxxing your home address Even people who should know better seem to do it with a certain glee We have children and families and don’t deserve this

RT @agarwal: Steven and I "met" just over four years ago over late night phone calls during Covid lockdown. We had both realized, separatel…

RT @ycombinator: Suhail Doshi (@Suhail) has created a state-of-the-art AI image diffusion model with @playground_ai. The app allows you t…

RT @Scotty_Jacobs: I filed an ethics complaint against Dean Preston for receiving illegal campaign contributions from the Democratic Social…

Bad bureaucrats, cronyism, and no accountability are the three-headed snake of Aaron Peskin's extremist political machine that ruined San Francisco https://t.co/CkIVvM4qTV

RT @Overlap_Tech: Suhail Doshi on building Playground AI into a marketplace “It's hard for people to prompt ... so we decided one of our c…

RT @TheMarinaTimes: I would like ⁦@DanielLurie⁩ to explain why anti-police City Family grifter @lateefahsimon⁩ is still on his board. https…

RT @lutherlowe: Here’s the portion of the @micsolana & @garrytan conversation at FAI’s Reboot where they discuss “Little Tech” (a phrase Ga…

Here's the real story on how Playground v3 got to SOTA on image diffusion models Amazing work @Suhail https://t.co/Q5ImkUm3al https://t.co/Bpsq5Q3A2e

RT @rakesh_goyal: Here is the advice that @garrytan gave us, which helped us 13x our revenue at @veltjs Before: - Growth was slow. - CAC w…

Here is the advice that @garrytan gave us, which helped us 13x our revenue at @veltjs Before: - Growth was slow. - CAC was high and revenue per customer was low. - Our pipeline was filled with early-stage startups. After: - 13x revenue growth in under a year. Monthly growth of https://t.co/GH6fMV9BVr