Garry Tan joins Isaacson's The Builders podcast: 10-minute founder vetting, fear of five AI "kings"
garrytan · x · 2026-11-04
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan announced his episode of The Builders, Walter Isaacson's new iHeartPodcasts/Kaleidoscope series featuring Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Fei-Fei Li, and the Amodeis.
Key topics from Tan's conversation:
- Why a 10-minute interview is all you need to vet a transformative founder
- His fear of a future controlled by five AI "kings"
- How personal AI could hand your social media feed back to you
- Lifting Silicon Valley's gatekeeping and the responsibility of choosing who gets to build
Tan called this an unusual historical inflection point, excited that superintelligence is almost here. The episode runs 40 minutes, taped June 19, 2026.
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