Garry Tan backs Cluely as realtime thought helper; VCs reportedly use Granola + Claude to pick apart pitches live
garrytan · x · 2026-09-22
Y Combinator president Garry Tan argues Cluely remains a good idea if reframed as a realtime thought helper and semi-adversarial assistant with ongoing context.
The quoted post adds a VC-world observation: investors use Granola to take notes and feed them into a poorly prompted Claude to dissect founders mid-pitch. Since AI tends toward groupthink, internet "trends" — true or not — now color VC reactions more than before, and one founder tracks those unfounded tropes specifically to rebut them upfront.
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