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Garry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition
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Garry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition

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  1. @blas· tennis
    Falling inference costs unlock ambitious consumer AI products by making free-to-try software economically viable.
  2. @blas· tennis
    Some very small companies may reach roughly $15 million ARR in four months using a few hundred reusable agent skill files.
  3. @blas· tennis
    Code is no longer precious. Software can be disposable, changing what deserves serious investment.
  4. @blas· tennis
    AI erases the API line by letting agents communicate with software through real-time, machine-readable exchanges.
  5. @blas· tennis
    AI’s major social transformation could take roughly 20 years as institutions absorb new expectations.
  6. @blas· tennis
    Agents extend a leader’s awareness beyond one person’s head with direct operational evidence, not just opinions.
  7. @blas· tennis
    Coding agents remove execution overhead, making agency and taste more important than ever.
  8. @blas· tennis
    After solving a difficult task, turn the solution into reusable instructions, code, and tests that can run again.
  9. @blas· tennis
    Decisions improve when you look at reality directly instead of following fashionable narratives, investor maps, or prevailing opinion.
  10. @blas· tennis
    SaaS was once valued by a 10–20x next-twelve-month revenue multiple. That rule is no longer sacred.
  11. @blas· tennis
    AI coding tools are making solo founding more viable, though co-founders still win when everything else is equal.
  12. @blas· tennis
    An agent combines memory, retrieval, and data access so one person can reason over far more information than humans can unaided.
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