YC CEO Garry Tan: his AI agent transcribed 10 podcasts to prep him 15 minutes before an interview
garrytan · x · 2026-11-05
On The Builders, Walter Isaacson asked YC CEO Garry Tan for a concrete example of what an AI agent can do. Tan said that 15 minutes before their conversation, his agent downloaded and transcribed Isaacson's top 10 podcasts, then went through them line by line and timestamp by timestamp to identify major themes — giving Tan a view of which subjects Isaacson had actually explored before the interview.
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