Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence

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Garry Tan says personal AGI can make one founder 400x more productive—and argues your AI skills should stay in your own repo.

At Startup School 2026, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan uses Baruch Spinoza’s excommunication and refusal to trade intellectual freedom for a salary to frame his case for “personal AGI.” Rather than rent a generic chatbot, he says, build an agent around a library of your own context, reusable Markdown skill files, and tools you control. Tan estimates AI agents have raised his coding output about 400x since 2013, with a conservative floor of 8x, and points to YC companies reaching $15 million in annualized revenue with 15 employees. He describes a 220,000-page personal knowledge system and gives five steps to start one, while warning that workers must own their skills before employers turn them into company assets. His closing example is a father’s 80,000-file research library for his son’s rare epilepsy: one person, Tan argues, can now build what once required a team and permission.

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1. 0:00What Founders Can Learn From Spinoza: Conatus, the 1,000-Guilder Offer, and His Excommunication
2. 4:46Personal AGI Is Already Here: An Agent That Runs on Your Own Infrastructure
3. 7:57Why AI Makes One Person More Powerful Than Ever: Tan Estimates 400x His 2013 Output
4. 12:29Your Life Is a Library: G Brain’s 220,000-Page Personal Wiki
5. 15:15Inside My Personal AI System: G Stack’s 123,000 Stars and Overnight Briefings
6. 17:06Markdown Is Code: A YC Finance Manager Builds an App from 100 Workbooks
7. 18:20Latent Space vs. Deterministic Code: 1,500 Pages of Spinoza Research
8. 21:13Building a Company of One: Emergent Reached $15 Million Annualized Revenue with 15 People
9. 24:16How to Build Your Own Personal AGI: Start a Local Agent and Capture Reusable Skills
10. 27:58Why Most People Will Quit Too Soon: The Flywheel Takes Until Week 12
11. 29:09Own Your Skills Before Someone Else Does: Maya’s 40 Skills and the Repository Ownership Divide
12. 32:24Personal AGI Means Owning Your Intelligence: Keep Your Brain and Skills in a Repo You Control
13. 35:21Why I Open Sourced Everything: Sharing AI Leverage and Facing Copycats
14. 38:30A Personal AGI for One Small Boy: An 80,000-File Epilepsy Library
15. 40:18It's All Made Up. You Get to Make It Up: 7,000 Founders Can Build Without Permission