Andrew Warner: there, freedom Fighters. My name is Andrew Warner and this is a new series for me. It’s called The Next New Thing. Here’s what’s up in this interview, then an intro. Then we’ll get right to it.
How do you compete with these bigger players?
Garry Tan: We’re seeing routinely YC companies with 10 or 20 people get to 10 or $20 million a year in revenue in 10 or 20 months. That’s like literally never happened before in software.
Andrew Warner: Talk to me about how you use AI in your video creation.
Garry Tan: I took the scripts of all of the top videos that I ever made from my YouTube channel.
I’d throw it at this prompt and then it would. Generate these beautiful three act narratives. I could have a new 10 minute script ready, whereas it normally would take me like several hours. How are you changing Y Combinator? Let’s stop competing with all the other VCs. Let’s be their...