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Episode 642: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Garry Tan ( https://x.com/garrytan ), CEO of Y Combinator, about the sauce that makes YC outperform the rest of Silicon Valley plus lessons from Paul Graham, Peter Thiel and Garry’s first million. —Show Notes: (0:00) Winning the game(3:16) Being the Harvard of startups(7:31) How YC outperforms most Silicon Valley investors(9:36) Spotting extreme winners(14:14) Capital-as-a-service(16:34) How Garry hustled at 14 to get his into financial security(23:04) Turning down Peter Thiel's offer to start Palantir(32:20) Garry's first million(44:57) Early days at YC(51:31) The edge of startups with a 2-pizza team(54:36) Advice for founders in AI(1:05:57) The spoon-bending story—Links:• YC - https://www.ycombinator.com/• Founding Sales - https://www.foundingsales.com/—Check Out Shaan's Stuff:Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd—Check Out Sam's Stuff:• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/• Copy That - https://copythat.com• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano
