{"id":1173483360426983400,"conversation_id":"1173483359520968707","created_at":1568615210000,"date":"2019-09-16","time":"06:26:50","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"That's how it works with every great technology startup: From every place you studied and every place you worked, there are a few people who are widely known as brilliant, and when a bunch of them start congregating, things snowball. \n\nThat's how you get a Google.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":5,"retweets_count":5,"likes_count":86,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1173483360426983424","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
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{"id":1172593828374569000,"conversation_id":"1172350190541426688","created_at":1568403129000,"date":"2019-09-13","time":"19:32:09","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"An optimist would say there are all the necessary reactants for a runaway chemical reaction","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":1,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1172593828374568960","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
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{"id":1171922125138956300,"conversation_id":"1171920176326959104","created_at":1568242982000,"date":"2019-09-11","time":"23:03:02","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Silicon Valley is full of people who will lie, cheat, steal, and say and do anything to get ahead. \n\nBusiness may be amoral, but the people have a choice to not do business with these people.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":20,"retweets_count":43,"likes_count":276,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1171922125138956289","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1171920176326959000,"conversation_id":"1171920176326959104","created_at":1568242517000,"date":"2019-09-11","time":"22:55:17","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Classic sociopath bully tactic:\n\n“That’s a nice reputation you’ve got there. Would be a shame for anything to happen to it.”\n\nYou can’t make this stuff up. This wouldn’t even make HBO’s Silicon Valley because it’s too sad and disgusting, and not funny at all.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":17,"retweets_count":45,"likes_count":345,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1171920176326959104","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1171835284721291300,"conversation_id":"1171835284721291265","created_at":1568222278000,"date":"2019-09-11","time":"17:17:58","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Today workers in China are 1/4 as productive as their US counterparts. If over the next 20 yrs they become just 1/2 as productive, China’s economy will be 2X the US. If they equal US productivity, China will be 4X the US.\n\n—Can America & China Escape Thucydides's Trap? (Allison)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":12,"retweets_count":17,"likes_count":84,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1171835284721291265","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1171452320271323100,"conversation_id":"1171452074501894144","created_at":1568130972000,"date":"2019-09-10","time":"15:56:12","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"This is another reminder all startups are pass/fail and the bar for passing is literally product market fit. \n\nIt’s a very high bar.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":12,"likes_count":67,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1171452320271323136","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1171249891546300400,"conversation_id":"1171249602336419840","created_at":1568082709000,"date":"2019-09-10","time":"02:31:49","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"LOL noticed a typo. By “my” friends I meant the founders friends\n\nPeople they know are good and where there is mutual trust","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":20,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1171249891546300416","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1171064852690813000,"conversation_id":"1171062737914466304","created_at":1568038592000,"date":"2019-09-09","time":"14:16:32","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"I get it! What are your problems with the SAFE?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":0,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1171064852690812928","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1171063408029909000,"conversation_id":"1171062737914466304","created_at":1568038248000,"date":"2019-09-09","time":"14:10:48","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Pretty sure YC supports companies through the whole lifecycle. My thousands of hours of office hours with 700 companies was frankly mostly helping founders on bad days. \n\nI’m glad you do work when others don’t, but do not be this arrogant please.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":15,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1171063408029908992","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1170763177413369900,"conversation_id":"1170763177413369856","created_at":1567966667000,"date":"2019-09-08","time":"18:17:47","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"$520B Company $FB\n\nCan’t support 4K video upload from iOS properly. Ambiguous stuck post, no way to delete or recover. 🤔","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":18,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":126,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":["$fb"],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1170763177413369856","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1170139961510641700,"conversation_id":"1170134481338097665","created_at":1567818081000,"date":"2019-09-07","time":"01:01:21","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"I know it’s all good","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":1,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1170139961510641665","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1170135154209124400,"conversation_id":"1170134481338097665","created_at":1567816935000,"date":"2019-09-07","time":"00:42:15","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Uh yeah I know it could be better and I promise you it will get better :-)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":0,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1170135154209124352","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1170087773287542800,"conversation_id":"1170087491371556864","created_at":1567805638000,"date":"2019-09-06","time":"21:33:58","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"This part is crazy:\n\n> At one point, the Alaska Airlines employee came out of the jetway bridge and looked down below, where both men were speaking to police. \"We got them motherfuckers,” she yelled, according to Xue.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":3,"likes_count":28,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1170087773287542784","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1170021395851403300,"conversation_id":"1170015338349510656","created_at":1567789813000,"date":"2019-09-06","time":"17:10:13","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Behind the scenes: I did it all myself. It took about 30 minutes on site with Sid including b-roll and portrait session with both cofounders. \n\nShot on a Sony A7 mirrorless camera at 1080p for simplicity, edited on Lumafusion on an iPad Pro in about 3 hours.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":37,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1170021395851403264","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1169464676725297200,"conversation_id":"1169464217755213824","created_at":1567657081000,"date":"2019-09-05","time":"04:18:01","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"This is very much like the bubble in synthetic asset-backed CDOs before the Financial Crisis in that price-setting in that market was not done by fundamental security-level analysis, but by massive capital flows based on Nobel-approved models of risk that proved to be untrue.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":5,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":18,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1169464676725297152","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1169464675081179100,"conversation_id":"1169464217755213824","created_at":1567657080000,"date":"2019-09-05","time":"04:18:00","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"The simple theses and the models that get people into sectors, factors, indexes, or ETFs and mutual funds mimicking those strategies -- these do not require the security-level analysis that is required for true price discovery.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":14,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1169464675081179136","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1169413649087156200,"conversation_id":"1169413649087156224","created_at":1567644915000,"date":"2019-09-05","time":"00:55:15","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Founders always underestimate how easily next round investors will interpret changes in business model close to a raise (within 2 quarters) as a pivot. Probably the least understood dynamic among first time founders doing their next round.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":18,"likes_count":155,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1169413649087156224","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1167134218868027400,"conversation_id":"1167130951660363776","created_at":1567101456000,"date":"2019-08-29","time":"17:57:36","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Put in other words: after seeing thousands of startups I have more direct experience than most VCs that it takes a village to deeply change the culture of how someone does what they do. YC is that village. \n\nAll the coffee meetings and board room work in the world won’t do that.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":5,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":32,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1167134218868027392","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1167081565051998200,"conversation_id":"1167081565051998208","created_at":1567088903000,"date":"2019-08-29","time":"14:28:23","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.\n\n—Bruce Springsteen","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":120,"likes_count":561,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1167081565051998208","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1166436493923012600,"conversation_id":"1166436492492673024","created_at":1566935106000,"date":"2019-08-27","time":"19:45:06","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"We’re also trying to find and fund them when it’s one or two people with a shovel in a field, and the first nugget hasn’t been dug out of the ground yet.\n\nIt looks like alchemy, but it’s still gold mining. That’s why value and venture investing aren’t that different after all.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":16,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1166436493923012608","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1166436493180588000,"conversation_id":"1166436492492673024","created_at":1566935105000,"date":"2019-08-27","time":"19:45:05","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Yet startups are businesses like any other. \n\nThe mechanics of finding opportunities are the same: moving dirt, rock, rubble to find gold. \n\nThe difference is that we are mining in places where they didn’t think to mine— new islands and continents recently discovered.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":3,"likes_count":16,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1166436493180588032","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1166436492492673000,"conversation_id":"1166436492492673024","created_at":1566935105000,"date":"2019-08-27","time":"19:45:05","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Some people would argue venture investing is like alchemy, and value investing is like gold mining. \n\nOne is ethereal magic, and another is as real as could be.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":5,"retweets_count":6,"likes_count":43,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1166436492492673024","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
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{"id":1165707834601787400,"conversation_id":"1165707834601787392","created_at":1566761380000,"date":"2019-08-25","time":"19:29:40","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Show me a fancy resume and I feel nothing. \nShow me who else is investing and I see lemmings jumping off a cliff.\n\nShow me a big unaddressed problem and I am listening.\nShow me the solution you’ve built and I lean in.\nShow me the team of true believers you built and I invest.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":62,"retweets_count":318,"likes_count":2091,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1165707834601787392","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1165525764114190300,"conversation_id":"1165525764114190337","created_at":1566717971000,"date":"2019-08-25","time":"07:26:11","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"In Chicago, bought some bottle service after a wedding and of course we are all 37 so no way we will finish the vodka. Met some engineering managers who are 27 and thinking of starting companies. \n\nA/ yes please do\nB/ I will help\nC/ Here is all our Grey Goose 😂","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":20,"retweets_count":5,"likes_count":321,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1165525764114190337","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1164991595860635600,"conversation_id":"1164991595860635648","created_at":1566590615000,"date":"2019-08-23","time":"20:03:35","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Show me a get rich quick scheme and I don’t care.\n\nShow me a cause that will stir the hearts of talented people and rile them to action? Give them focus, purpose, and meaning? \n\nI want to invest.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":98,"retweets_count":201,"likes_count":1554,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1164991595860635648","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1164970183032746000,"conversation_id":"1164970170361745418","created_at":1566585510000,"date":"2019-08-23","time":"18:38:30","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"There’s a fog of war when you’re making something nobody else has made. There’s no playbook. Your tools against that? clarity of thought, and resoluteness of action.\n\nMake the best choice you can and adjust. Set a hypothesis and test it, then adjust. Analysis paralysis is death.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":5,"retweets_count":41,"likes_count":245,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1164970183032745984","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1164970179098554400,"conversation_id":"1164970170361745418","created_at":1566585509000,"date":"2019-08-23","time":"18:38:29","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"This is also why so founders (particularly well-pedigreed serial entrepreneurs) fast-follow. UberX was a fast follow on Lyft. \n\nIt is easier to steal lightning than discover it in the wild.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":23,"likes_count":148,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1164970179098554369","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1164970174656786400,"conversation_id":"1164970170361745418","created_at":1566585508000,"date":"2019-08-23","time":"18:38:28","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Founders who catch lightning in a bottle find themselves in this common situation: if they sell the company now, they’ll just have to start it again, and it’s that much harder to catch lightning again. \n\nThis is the advantage of repeat founders: they know the pain of regret.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":7,"retweets_count":15,"likes_count":144,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1164970174656786432","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1164970170361745400,"conversation_id":"1164970170361745418","created_at":1566585507000,"date":"2019-08-23","time":"18:38:27","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Most startup founders end up spending their entire careers trying to catch lightning in a bottle even once. I caught it once and lost it myself. It’s hard to hold— so much can go wrong. \n\nWhen you catch lightning in a bottle, you have to do everything in your power to harness it.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":32,"retweets_count":230,"likes_count":1192,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1164970170361745418","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1164937268580081700,"conversation_id":"1164937268580081664","created_at":1566577662000,"date":"2019-08-23","time":"16:27:42","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Great teams are the basis for all change in the world. One person can do only so much.\n\nLeaders must recruit the best, THEN give structure, guidance and safety, and get out of the way. \n\nEgo helps the former, but hurts the latter. This tough balance is at the heart of success.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":6,"retweets_count":101,"likes_count":433,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1164937268580081664","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1164929651271069700,"conversation_id":"1164612466505990144","created_at":1566575846000,"date":"2019-08-23","time":"15:57:26","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Update: they apologized and said they wouldn’t ever do it again. I appreciate that.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":16,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1164929651271069696","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1163838729632411600,"conversation_id":"1163838729632411648","created_at":1566315750000,"date":"2019-08-20","time":"15:42:30","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"People who appear in media headlines represent a simulacrum: merely an image/representation\n\nWe project our hopes, dreams, hatreds, jealousies and frustrations on these people.\n\nThe result? Papparazi-style Dehumanization.\n\nEasy to forget they are still humans.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":34,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1163838729632411648","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1163838392829767700,"conversation_id":"1163838392829767681","created_at":1566315670000,"date":"2019-08-20","time":"15:41:10","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Interesting killer app: Instant sousveillance (video and audio capture from smartphone or other devices) without state control\n\nDecentralized immutability for file storage through Filecoin which you can’t be compelled to delete or censor\n\nIt’s important to watch the watchers.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":7,"retweets_count":3,"likes_count":23,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1163838392829767681","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1163448157830652000,"conversation_id":"1163448157830651905","created_at":1566222631000,"date":"2019-08-19","time":"13:50:31","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Alumni demo day is one of the two days a year we get to celebrate the YC fam. It’s a grad ceremony and reunion all at once—alums welcome the new grads and celebrate the dawn of a new startup\n\nAnd reflect on how far they’ve come since their own\n\nNothing else like it in tech ❤️","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":15,"likes_count":229,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1163448157830651905","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1163319546247147500,"conversation_id":"1163319546247147523","created_at":1566191967000,"date":"2019-08-19","time":"05:19:27","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Strange paradox: some of the industries that require the highest integrity founders seem to attract the lowest integrity founders\n\nFinance, anti fraud, medical technology, nonprofits\n\nThere’s a reason why smart investors do a lot of due diligence work. Know who you work with.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":33,"retweets_count":93,"likes_count":561,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1163319546247147523","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1162948131123675100,"conversation_id":"1162948131123675136","created_at":1566103415000,"date":"2019-08-18","time":"04:43:35","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"“You can turn any investment into a bad deal by paying too much. What you can’t do is turn something into a good deal by paying little.” \n— Warren Buffett.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":11,"retweets_count":231,"likes_count":1030,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1162948131123675136","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1162573082067796000,"conversation_id":"1162571818273660928","created_at":1566013996000,"date":"2019-08-17","time":"03:53:16","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Asking investors what is hot is usually less useful than asking what has worked, and what didn’t work and why? That’s how you can skip ahead and avoid death. \n\n“All I want to know is where I’m going to die so I’ll never go there.” —Munger","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":26,"likes_count":182,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1162573082067795970","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1162572311410561000,"conversation_id":"1162571818273660928","created_at":1566013813000,"date":"2019-08-17","time":"03:50:13","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"This advice is seldom given because most of the time and for most founders, you are still better off talking about your idea as much as possible to better understand where the dead ends are in the idea maze. Can’t do that in isolation.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":114,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1162572311410561024","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1162571818273661000,"conversation_id":"1162571818273660928","created_at":1566013695000,"date":"2019-08-17","time":"03:48:15","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Subtle real advantage nobody talks about: if founders can access deeper pools of capital early/quickly, they can get bigger faster without spawning lots of competitors. \n\nIf your startup is real, pitching Sand Hill is sometimes like giving away copies of your treasure map","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":23,"retweets_count":65,"likes_count":542,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1162571818273660928","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1159605671483981800,"conversation_id":"1159498272286769152","created_at":1565306511000,"date":"2019-08-08","time":"23:21:51","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Gackle: The much larger sites, like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, all scaled by sharding. HN has no shards. We have no social graph either. Everybody is in it together whether they like it or not.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":15,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1159605671483981824","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1159605222026571800,"conversation_id":"1159498272286769152","created_at":1565306404000,"date":"2019-08-08","time":"23:20:04","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Gackle: The sheer quantity of [people treating other people poorly] is so overwhelming that one does have a depressive reaction, a hopeless reaction to it... like the feelings of a child trying to keep the family together. When the family is 5M people, that’s a pretty tall order.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":14,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1159605222026571777","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1159604533246349300,"conversation_id":"1159498272286769152","created_at":1565306239000,"date":"2019-08-08","time":"23:17:19","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"“If we’re trying to change something deep, the ingredient is time,” Scott Bell said. “Patience allows us to be ambitious—to imagine people being more kind to each other, for example. It sounds kind of crazy.”","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":6,"likes_count":25,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1159604533246349312","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1158961897917436000,"conversation_id":"1158961897917435904","created_at":1565153023000,"date":"2019-08-07","time":"04:43:43","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Marie Kondo for Meetings:\n\nDoes it spark joy? Do you see this as being part of your life going forward?","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":17,"retweets_count":101,"likes_count":610,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1158961897917435904","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1157568355814895600,"conversation_id":"1157568355814895616","created_at":1564820777000,"date":"2019-08-03","time":"08:26:17","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Investors: Figure out if something is real yourself. \n\nOver-reliance on signifiers makes you lose money two ways: You fund the bad things that look great, and you miss the things that look bad but are actually great.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":13,"retweets_count":48,"likes_count":316,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1157568355814895616","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1156250042593714200,"conversation_id":"1156250042593714176","created_at":1564506466000,"date":"2019-07-30","time":"17:07:46","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Good design is not picking colors and making it pretty\n\nGood design is removing steps, understanding motivations, making it clearer, more navigable, faster, easier... it is how it works not how it looks. \n\nToo many products (even at the largest firms in tech) forget this.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":69,"retweets_count":741,"likes_count":2660,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1156250042593714176","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1155999163936456700,"conversation_id":"1155999163936456704","created_at":1564446652000,"date":"2019-07-30","time":"00:30:52","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"People in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. They don’t have enough dots to connect. They end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. —S Jobs","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":183,"likes_count":841,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1155999163936456704","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1152444900660531200,"conversation_id":"1152444900660531201","created_at":1563599250000,"date":"2019-07-20","time":"05:07:30","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"You can learn a lot from books and podcasts but here’s why you need to still seek out advice from people who have worked with a lot of startups 1:1—\n\nBooks/podcasts don’t tell you what happens when things go bad. They will just give you the survivorship bias of what goes right.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":37,"retweets_count":133,"likes_count":904,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1152444900660531201","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1151536902077481000,"conversation_id":"1151498395619454976","created_at":1563382766000,"date":"2019-07-17","time":"16:59:26","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Rep Gottheimer points out that Libra Association is in Switzerland because there was not regulatory clarity. He is leading the Token Taxonomy Act to keep American innovation at the forefront. \n\nForward thinking.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":6,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1151536902077480960","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1151534779944169500,"conversation_id":"1151498395619454976","created_at":1563382260000,"date":"2019-07-17","time":"16:51:00","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Rep Davidson points out lack of proper regulatory clarity is forcing crypto innovation overseas and that’s a lost American opportunity. 👌","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":3,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1151534779944169472","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1151520650072248300,"conversation_id":"1151498395619454976","created_at":1563378891000,"date":"2019-07-17","time":"15:54:51","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Rep Sherman seems to misunderstand that crypto is far more traceable than the way terrorism and drug dealing is enabled today: giant blocks of $100 bills in cash. \n\nHe also seems to misunderstand that Libra and Collibra will be different entities.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":10,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1151520650072248321","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1151499857393156100,"conversation_id":"1151498395619454976","created_at":1563373934000,"date":"2019-07-17","time":"14:32:14","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Rep Waters started off by pointing to her draft bill, the “Keep Big Tech Out of Finance Act.” 🤔\n\nThis is pretty bald faced regulatory capture, isn’t it? Big tech presents problems to society, but does big finance need the protection of the government? 🔨","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":13,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1151499857393156097","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1149182037498052600,"conversation_id":"1149182037498052608","created_at":1562821323000,"date":"2019-07-11","time":"05:02:03","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"It’s always a bad sign when 5 min into a conversation, it turns into a buzzword signaling competition. \n\nStartups are best explained using plain English and first principles. It’s too easy for emperor-has-no-clothes situations to crop up when it’s an abstraction house of cards.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":30,"retweets_count":93,"likes_count":570,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1149182037498052608","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1148982615824748500,"conversation_id":"1148981452035387392","created_at":1562773777000,"date":"2019-07-10","time":"15:49:37","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Often the worst perpetrators had it done to them in previous companies. \n\n“Finam Holdings came knocking again and invested $20 million for a 90% stake; Andreev sold the rest to Finam in 2006 for an undisclosed amount.”","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":13,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1148982615824748546","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1148623790546378800,"conversation_id":"1148623790546378753","created_at":1562688226000,"date":"2019-07-09","time":"16:03:46","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"\"The more you sweat in times of peace, the less you bleed in times of war.\" --Navy SEAL mantra","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":18,"retweets_count":262,"likes_count":1195,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1148623790546378753","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1145932863532965900,"conversation_id":"1145932863532965888","created_at":1562046659000,"date":"2019-07-02","time":"05:50:59","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"If you are a startup that has an overfunded competitor that is actually a scam, the least you can do is sleep knowing those other founders have to keep finding more money and bigger fools. \n\nYou do you. Grow faster and scrappier. The score will take care of itself.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":36,"retweets_count":294,"likes_count":1562,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1145932863532965888","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1145921095553302500,"conversation_id":"1145920788110856198","created_at":1562043854000,"date":"2019-07-02","time":"05:04:14","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"VC is pass fail. Either you are in the companies that matter, or you are not. \n\nYou can’t get a C+ and pass here. It’s an A+ or an F.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":12,"retweets_count":10,"likes_count":137,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1145921095553302528","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1144997849790206000,"conversation_id":"1144996369901355008","created_at":1561823735000,"date":"2019-06-29","time":"15:55:35","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Yes amazing work! Future founder","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":1,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1144997849790205952","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1144104475738566700,"conversation_id":"1144104475738566656","created_at":1561610738000,"date":"2019-06-27","time":"04:45:38","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"David Crosby on on evaluating people: \n\nWho have they helped? \n\nThat’s a way to give purpose to your life that is really, really good. Half the people on the planet need help in one way or another: Food, shelter, clothing, a loving hand, somebody who gives a shit. They need that.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":10,"likes_count":75,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1144104475738566656","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1142948374330499100,"conversation_id":"1142948374330499073","created_at":1561335102000,"date":"2019-06-24","time":"00:11:42","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"The most dangerous resolution to a bug in a bug database is “Works for me.”","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":6,"retweets_count":13,"likes_count":82,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1142948374330499073","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1142922454169346000,"conversation_id":"1142894181678899200","created_at":1561328922000,"date":"2019-06-23","time":"22:28:42","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"No but that merely underscores the difference between pure financial gain and societal gain\n\nI’m sure some libertarians are getting triggered","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":0,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1142922454169346048","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1142894181678899200,"conversation_id":"1142894181678899200","created_at":1561322181000,"date":"2019-06-23","time":"20:36:21","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Private companies spend 2x as much on CapEx, R&D, factories, and in worker training than public ones. \n\nStrong fast growing startups are what drive job growth and reinvestment. \n\nToo many public companies these days sit on cash and CEOs hit bonus targets via stock buybacks.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":20,"retweets_count":36,"likes_count":289,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1142894181678899200","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1141522146620928000,"conversation_id":"1141522146620928000","created_at":1560995062000,"date":"2019-06-20","time":"01:44:22","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"New development in diligence calls with growth investors: \n\nSo, is this a \"Silicon Valley special\" with founders who cut corners? 😈\n\nOr are these founders trustworthy and do they have real values that drive their decisions? 😇\n\nA good q to ask, shows that there's hope","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":12,"likes_count":101,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1141522146620928000","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1141421697481838600,"conversation_id":"1141421697481838592","created_at":1560971113000,"date":"2019-06-19","time":"19:05:13","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"New founders generally should avoid over-indexing on what is hot. What reporters write about, and what VCs post about on Medium are almost always the thing that was viable to work on 6 to 18 months ago. \n\nLook for first-hand problems that you can directly solve. Then solve them.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":18,"retweets_count":91,"likes_count":576,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1141421697481838592","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1141398691334352900,"conversation_id":"1141398139242336256","created_at":1560965628000,"date":"2019-06-19","time":"17:33:48","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"One of the primary values of going through a YC batch is actually seeing up close what *RUNNING FAST* looks like. \n\nYou thought you were doing well and then you see how much you get lapped by others in your batch. \n\nThat lights a fire and you learn true startup velocity. 🛫","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":13,"likes_count":137,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1141398691334352896","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1141252136098910200,"conversation_id":"1141252136098910208","created_at":1560930687000,"date":"2019-06-19","time":"07:51:27","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"So much software just doesn't work for people. Automated tests are not a complete solution. \n\nFanatical customer support and rapid bug fixing is the only way to make your product really work. Without that, as time goes on, a larger and larger % of users will fail basic scenarios.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":7,"retweets_count":55,"likes_count":287,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1141252136098910208","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1141239078790107100,"conversation_id":"1141239078790107136","created_at":1560927574000,"date":"2019-06-19","time":"06:59:34","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Plaid is amazing and unlocks incredible scenarios but let’s think about what is actually happening: Web scraping code that is slow and brittle is interfacing with horrible bank software that fails half the time. \n\nA more open financial system that replaces this must exist.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":26,"retweets_count":23,"likes_count":298,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1141239078790107136","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1141101660019626000,"conversation_id":"1141100234786795521","created_at":1560894811000,"date":"2019-06-18","time":"21:53:31","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"What they released today might not be perfect but if you can 10X reach in any platform that is a once every 10 years event. \n\n100X is once in a lifetime.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":6,"retweets_count":21,"likes_count":144,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1141101660019625984","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1141101324081098800,"conversation_id":"1141100234786795521","created_at":1560894730000,"date":"2019-06-18","time":"21:52:10","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"I get excited by a 10X. This is possibly 100X.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":26,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1141101324081098752","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1141100234786795500,"conversation_id":"1141100234786795521","created_at":1560894471000,"date":"2019-06-18","time":"21:47:51","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Most estimates place today’s crypto users worldwide at under 35M people total. \n\nThere are 2.4B Facebook and 1.5B WhatsApp users\n\nIn 2020, these billions of people will have a fiat to Libra on-ramp... and from there, to every other crypto pair. \n\nThis is clearly a big day.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":75,"retweets_count":304,"likes_count":1436,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1141100234786795521","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1140042469087694800,"conversation_id":"1136044151454162944","created_at":1560642280000,"date":"2019-06-15","time":"23:44:40","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"KGB Head to Legasov, the chief scientist who saved millions of lives: “Scientists and your idiot obsessions with reasons. When the bullet hits your skull what will it matter why?”\n\nTyranny is the enemy of truth. \n\nYou can’t serve the people without the truth.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":5,"retweets_count":7,"likes_count":39,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1140042469087694848","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1140037149858734100,"conversation_id":"1136044151454162944","created_at":1560641012000,"date":"2019-06-15","time":"23:23:32","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Chernobyl is a case study in life and death situations in orgs. \n\nAs technicians doomed the reactor to meltdown at the behest of a paper pushing middle manager, they mutter to themselves “We did everything right.”\n\nTyrannical power\nIgnorance\nBlind order following\nDenial\nCoverup","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":9,"likes_count":44,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1140037149858734081","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1139958292073996300,"conversation_id":"1139958292073996288","created_at":1560622210000,"date":"2019-06-15","time":"18:10:10","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"There’s a lot of fake stuff in tech, we all see it. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t the real too.\n\nLet’s not throw the baby out with the bath water.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":5,"likes_count":105,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1139958292073996288","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1138652580282658800,"conversation_id":"1138652580282658819","created_at":1560310904000,"date":"2019-06-12","time":"03:41:44","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Paradox:\nYou can’t escape the wage labor system if you always optimize for salary","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":8,"retweets_count":71,"likes_count":491,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1138652580282658819","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1137770852584382500,"conversation_id":"1137767662669320192","created_at":1560100684000,"date":"2019-06-09","time":"17:18:04","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Wall Street is just another system with its own pros and cons\n\nOne con is that the metrics it uses to evaluate companies heavily incentivizes short term thinking","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":1,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":12,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1137770852584382464","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1137449074423140400,"conversation_id":"1137374665284866048","created_at":1560023966000,"date":"2019-06-08","time":"19:59:26","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Related: NIMBYs with millions of dollars in home equity wealth refusing to allow newcomers or more productive use of land","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":7,"retweets_count":14,"likes_count":71,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1137449074423140353","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1137045675965788200,"conversation_id":"1137045675965788160","created_at":1559927789000,"date":"2019-06-07","time":"17:16:29","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"There is nothing quite like getting on a plane when the chips are down on the table and getting to yes is life or death. \n\nAlways close in person. Don’t leave your fate up to a phone call. ✈️","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":13,"retweets_count":29,"likes_count":384,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1137045675965788160","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1136322031274696700,"conversation_id":"1136321171572502530","created_at":1559755258000,"date":"2019-06-05","time":"17:20:58","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"The more there are of these kinds of high accuracy open tournaments, the more there will be good in the world because it unlocks collaboration, investment, trust, openness\n\nAnd ultimately more growth. That is pure value, yield, returns that would not have happened otherwise.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":23,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1136322031274696704","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1136321171572502500,"conversation_id":"1136321171572502530","created_at":1559755053000,"date":"2019-06-05","time":"17:17:33","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Life is a set of tournaments: you need know which to join. Ideally—\n\n💞 Iterative, happening over and over again allowing you to learn\n⚖️ Clear criteria, not arbitrary\n🎫 Open to all, no golden ticket required \n🔖 Gives you a lifetime credential\n🍻 and a community to belong to","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":6,"retweets_count":15,"likes_count":109,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1136321171572502530","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
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{"id":1136004831334678500,"conversation_id":"1136004433144188928","created_at":1559679632000,"date":"2019-06-04","time":"20:20:32","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Founders are the same way\n\nSome seek what is hot\n\nSome find what could be hot and make it so\n\nBoth methods work but the latter is more likely to succeed.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":6,"retweets_count":7,"likes_count":107,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1136004831334678528","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1136004433144188900,"conversation_id":"1136004433144188928","created_at":1559679537000,"date":"2019-06-04","time":"20:18:57","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Some investors are blind, walking around naked hoping to feel heat\n\nOthers walk around with thermal scanners that can see heat through walls\n\nThe best investors have thermal scanners, matches, a blowtorch, a gallon of gasoline, and a stack of firewood to add to the fire","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":5,"retweets_count":19,"likes_count":163,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1136004433144188928","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1135036646141784000,"conversation_id":"1135036009928749057","created_at":1559448799000,"date":"2019-06-02","time":"04:13:19","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Don’t ever tell me VC is just a picking business. It might be at Series B or later, but not early. \n\nNOTE: We funded almost every single one of these cos at pre-seed or seed, when it was still very early, pre-product market fit.\n\nSource for the 24M? Scaling Up, Harnish (2014)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":9,"retweets_count":6,"likes_count":103,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1135036646141784070","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1135031566319546400,"conversation_id":"1135031566319546368","created_at":1559447587000,"date":"2019-06-02","time":"03:53:07","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Jesus urged his followers to learn to look at other adults as they might at children. Few things can more quickly transform our sense of a person’s character than picturing him or her as a child.\n\n👶🏻","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":9,"retweets_count":26,"likes_count":228,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1135031566319546368","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1134242599773003800,"conversation_id":"1134241622319747077","created_at":1559259483000,"date":"2019-05-30","time":"23:38:03","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Who wins? Late stage growth funds and secondary funds mainly. Also— some minority of founders running basically Ponzi money raising scams.\n\nLots of private information, plenty of ways to capitalize on it, lots of information asymmetry. \n\nMore transparency + liquidity is better.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":5,"retweets_count":4,"likes_count":87,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1134242599773003776","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1134144460583972900,"conversation_id":"1134144460583972864","created_at":1559236085000,"date":"2019-05-30","time":"17:08:05","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Ok seriously I want to delete U2 Songs of Innocence from my iPhone and never want to hear it again. The link is broken on iTunes to delete it. It keeps coming back. 😩","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":55,"retweets_count":7,"likes_count":315,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1134144460583972864","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1133949096539054100,"conversation_id":"1133942478501888000","created_at":1559189507000,"date":"2019-05-30","time":"04:11:47","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Google is insanely dominant and a modern marvel in the world\n\nThe more provocative and useful conversation is how they really could be even many times bigger and more powerful, but are clearly held back by their own real internal limitations to productive capital reinvestment","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":20,"retweets_count":8,"likes_count":176,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1133949096539054080","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1133878062653665300,"conversation_id":"1133878062653665280","created_at":1559172571000,"date":"2019-05-29","time":"23:29:31","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Lazyweb request: What are the best longform blogs, books, and documentaries about the US-China trade war and economic policy you’ve found? (Currently watching PBS Frontline’s May 7th documentary myself)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":27,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":38,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1133878062653665280","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1133749220626714600,"conversation_id":"1133748134440366081","created_at":1559141852000,"date":"2019-05-29","time":"14:57:32","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Yet we look around and there are problems everywhere in society that can and should be solved by private enterprise\n\nWhere is the disconnect? Big firms actually struggle with talent recruiting, retention and management\n\nCorporations rely on an antiquated 20th century playbook 📖","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":5,"retweets_count":4,"likes_count":24,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1133749220626714624","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1133193439661572100,"conversation_id":"1133193439661572096","created_at":1559009344000,"date":"2019-05-28","time":"02:09:04","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"People seek mastery, autonomy and purpose\n\nTrue fulfillment of the purpose requires a direct trade off of the other two\n\nBig goals require you to grow mastery in fields you never intended to master and to give up autonomy to teams in ways that will test you\n\nAll for the cause ⛰","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":9,"retweets_count":65,"likes_count":343,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1133193439661572096","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1133159190485131300,"conversation_id":"1133158244321337344","created_at":1559001178000,"date":"2019-05-27","time":"23:52:58","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Weird observation: most of my friends were actually fellow middle class public school kids. My parents had never even heard of the special summer camps where all the wealthy kids had hung out for a decade. \n\nIt was strange but didn’t affect how much Stanford helped me.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":0,"retweets_count":3,"likes_count":33,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1133159190485131264","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1133158395421134800,"conversation_id":"1133158244321337344","created_at":1559000989000,"date":"2019-05-27","time":"23:49:49","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"At the same time my parents made it clear to me: Never make going to Stanford the headline of your life. That would be a waste. They were right.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":4,"likes_count":56,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1133158395421134848","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1133074306722803700,"conversation_id":"1133072850531708928","created_at":1558980940000,"date":"2019-05-27","time":"18:15:40","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"War is so distasteful but it is an important reminder to look at history:  the blitzkrieg overwhelmed the Maginot line in WWII because warfare changes with tech but you don’t get tested until it actually happens.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":2,"likes_count":28,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1133074306722803712","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1132787117090693100,"conversation_id":"1132787115668885504","created_at":1558912469000,"date":"2019-05-26","time":"23:14:29","timezone":"UTC","user_id":11768582,"username":"garrytan","name":"Garry Tan","place":"","tweet":"Strangely instead of believing X that nobody else believes, the world would be better off with some people sticking with the consensus view. \n\nYet the paradox is that the Internet has fragmented thought so much, most of the incentive is to believe and spout the maximum untrue X.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":3,"likes_count":21,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1132787117090693120","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"11768582","username":"garrytan"}],"retweet_date":""}
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