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Escaping Into the Code Cave
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Escaping Into the Code Cave

Garry Tan of Y Combinator joins Rick Rubin on the Tetragrammaton podcast this week. Paid subscribers can listen to the ad-free episode here.

Long before Garry Tan was overseeing Y Combinator, the startup accelerator behind companies like Coinbase, Airbnb, and Stripe, he was a teenager teaching himself to code in the middle of a chaotic home life.

“I was suicidal,” he says at one point in the conversation.

“But when I was in front of my computer… the world was so beautiful and well arranged.”

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