Y Combinator CEO: The Key To Writing For Startups & Entrepreneurs | Garry Tan | How I Write Podcast

Learn how the CEO of Y Combinator Garry Tan wrote his way to success in the startup world — and how you can, too.

Writing is (and has always been) Garry’s #1 tool to excavate his identity and discover his purpose. In his own words, “Writing is the most potent form of representing your own experience.”

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:40 Garry's early days on the internet
00:01:40 Garry's underground newspaper
00:04:40 X / Twitter
00:05:00 Early childhood and education
00:08:30 Finding identity
00:12:00 Internet obsession
00:15:00 YouTube scripts
00:17:00 Shilling, marketing, and zero cringe
00:20:00 Online forums like Reddit and Hacker News
00:22:00 Garry's design background
00:24:45 Garry's web development background
00:26:30 Human attention and Reddit
00:27:25 Advice for Y Combinator applications
00:29:20 School
00:30:30 Documentation
00:32:10 Influencers and Y Combinator
00:33:20 Effective Communication
00:34:45 Peter Thiel
00:36:30 Vulnerability and Novelty
00:38:00 Stanford University
00:41:20 Novelty
00:42:45 Building a brand
00:44:55 YouTube
00:48:45 Writing at Y Combinator
00:49:45 Y Combinator writers like Paul Graham and Sam Altman
00:50:55 Learn from successful founders
00:54:45 Human-computer interactions
00:56:30 Writing online

SPEAKER LINKS:
Website: https://www.ycombinator.com/people/ga...
Twitter:   / garrytan  
Instagram:   / garrytan  
Blog: https://blog.garrytan.com/
YouTube:    / @garrytan  
Linkedin:   / garrytan  

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ABOUT THE HOST:
I’m David Perell and I’m a writer, teacher, and podcaster. I believe writing online is one of the biggest opportunities in the world today. For the first time in human history, everybody can freely share their ideas with a global audience. I seek to help as many people publish their writing online as possible.

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