Y Combinator CEO Shares How They Pick Winners, Advice For Founders + Lessons From Paul Graham | Garry Tan Interview

I don't think people are prepared or even aware. of what's about to happen right now. And it's like super, super good news for Anyone who's running a business. I feel like I could rule the world, I know I could be what I want to. I'm putting my all in it like my days off on the road, less travel never. Sam, have you seen I feel like there's a new meme that got birthed, and I think Gary's involved with it now, which is the Learn to cook, loser. Have you seen this, Sam? What is that? What is that? I don't even know like what it was r uh a reply to, but it seems to be going viral, so it's a good meme. I think somebody Paul Graham was talking about cooking.

He was like giving his kid advice and he's like, you know, when you have a girlfriend or something like that, like, you know, they love to come home to the smell of like a meal being cooked. And then someone immediately, you know, random Twitter troll is like Why you raising like a feminine man like you know he should be masculine, he doesn't need to learn to cook. And then I think Paul's reply was learn to cook, comma, loser. And then all the builders like Amjad and others basically like tech people were like, you know, this is actually good.

General advice. Like Learn to cook as a high agency way of living. I think it's like The compressed idea of you know, build things, actually make things, actually go do things in the world that totally you know are of value.

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