YC's Garry Tan launches “Garry's List”, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting “moderate/pragmatic” political candidates and pro-growth policies in California
New operation is part-PAC, part-blog, part incubator for Silicon Valley politics — and latest entry in big-money network
Mission Local Joe Rivano Barros
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Discussion
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@jrivanob
Joe Rivano Barros
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Garry Tan is launching a new dark-money group to influence California politics he wants to replicate the success of the Chesa Boudin & school board recalls of 2022 & bring that “energy” statewide the effort is also part of his aim to create “parallel media” & institutions [image]
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@dflieb
David Lieb
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One of my top pieces of advice to founders is “care deeply about your customers”. Garry is a great example of this — he deeply cares about making SF and California a place for prosperity for everyone. He even built an entire publication in his spare time to do it!
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@snowmaker
Jared Friedman
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A lot of people are surprised to hear that YC partners code. Garry not only manages the content for Garry's List, he built the entire web app himself with Claude Code.
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@garrytan
Garry Tan
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Now announcing: Garry's List We're starting a citizen's union for radical centrism. We proved local politics is winnable in SF. Now we're building the community to do it everywhere — news, commentary, and accountability for policies that affect California and our society. [video]
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@teddyschleifer
Teddy Schleifer
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Venture capitalist @garrytan is launching a 501(c)4 organization called “Garry's List.” It is part media organization, part a fundraising organization for California politics, part social network. This is how the advocacy world works these days. The lines between media + [image]
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@suhail
@suhail
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Been reading Garry's posts on this for a short while. They're so good if you care about San Francisco. If you care about California.
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@garrytan
Garry Tan
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Want to come to the Garry's List launch party? We're hosting a big, invite-only launch party on March 4 with some very special guests. If you want in, you need to apply. If you're a radical centrist like me, I would love to see you there. https://garryslist.org/apply
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@kazanjy
Peter Kazanjy
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If you want your local politicians to just be gd normal and stop being lapdogs for fringe interests, join Garry's List and get your normal, centrist interests represented.
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@garrytan
Garry Tan
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What an epic 21 days with Claude Code [image]
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@alex
@alex
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p interesting from gt, i fully expect tech folks to run ca politics inside the next five years — for ex https://sfstandard.com/... maybe we'll even get wifi on caltrain??
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@neo_antiquarian
Jerque Cousteau
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Garry's list first email blast like:
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@agupta
Ankit Gupta
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One of the best things about YC partner meetings these days is we've just been sharing what we're building with coding agents. Garry shared this with us a week ago. It's now shipped.
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@garrytan
Garry Tan
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Garry's List does three things. It tells you what's actually happening. We take the real information that's already out there — the tweets, the budget documents, the board meeting transcripts, the receipts — and turn it into sourced, readable stories in plain language. [image]
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@markovmagnifico
Markov
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guys that don't even understand how usb works are writing this much code with AI and you think we're in a bubble?
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@johnloeber
John Loeber
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Signing up for Garry's List like [image]
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@reeyopeeyo
Rya Jetha
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YC's @garrytan is taking his political ambitions statewide with a “Rotary Club for radical centrism.” The impetus for Garry's List, he told me yesterday, wasn't the billionaire tax but Claude Code! [image]
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@uhshanti
@uhshanti
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“Garry's List” lol he's so far up his own ass his head is coming out of his own mouth tesseract-style
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@mil0theminer
Milo Smith
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They talk about Garry like he's an 11yo learning HTML
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@chkashifali
@chkashifali
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The time of idea to prod has arrived. If Garry can build a product while running YC. You can do it too. I am hacking away nights and weekends to solve some internal tooling and it's the best feeling in the world.