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Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan Says A.I. Is Changing Who Gets Into YC

Tan argues that with “intelligence on tap,” taste, agency and product sense now matter more than elite degrees for the next generation of YC founders.

When Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launched his first startup in the 2000s, he worked such long hours that he took anti-narcoleptic medication just to stay awake. Today, he no longer needs pills to power through his schedule thanks to the help of A.I. Tan, who says he sleeps only about four hours a night, wakes up early to spend the first couple of hours checking in on a team of autonomous A.I. agents. “I can do my full-time job, doing like eight, nine hours of meetings, and get 10,000 lines of code done on three different projects right now,” said Tan while speaking at SXSW on Saturday (March 14).

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