YC President Garry Tan: AI Turns Markdown Files Into Employees, Enabling Tiny Teams
illscience · x · 2026-08-31
In an interview with the a16z Show, YC President Garry Tan argues that AI goes beyond efficiency, allowing founders to encode repeatable business processes and turn organizational memory into software. He envisions a new "founder mode": tiny teams operating with hundreds of reusable skills, where the company improves every time an agent makes a mistake. While incumbents struggle to reorganize, startups have no excuse not to embrace this model.
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