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Garry Tan and small startup teams
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- 0:00Gary Tan thinks the first 10 person 100
- 0:02billion dollar company is coming and YC
- 0:03is training the founders to build it.
- 0:05Stack cart Gary Tan. The lesson isn't
- 0:07the tech, it's the pattern. Billion
- 0:08dollar misfits, tiny teams, insane
- 0:10speed. Layer one, deal flow. Y
- 0:12Combinator as an AI era magnet.
- 0:14Thousands of applications. Gary looking
- 0:15for founders who ship, not just pitch.
- 0:17Layer two, capital. Early bets in
- 0:19companies like Coinbase prove
- 0:20distribution plus conviction beats safe
- 0:22picks. Layer three, agents. He's pushing
- 0:24vertical AI agents as the next1 billion
- 0:26dollar SAS wave systems that replace
- 0:27headcount, not just features. Layer
- 0:29four, gravity. BNSF is in a vibe its
- 0:31proximity to capital, talent, and the AI
- 0:33frontier. Layer five, belief. Compress
- 0:35build loops to 24 hours. Let agents
- 0:37handle the boring work. One misfit can
- 0:38build what used to take a thousand
- 0:39people. If you're betting on agents over
- 0:41headcount, follow for more founder
- 0:42stacks and comment stack if you want the
- 0:43Gary Tan checklist.
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