Garry Tan (@garrytan) on X

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Garry Tan on X: "True story"

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    True story

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    Fun story afterwards

    @larrymagid

    and

    @DavidNeedle

    took me and my friend Stephen Cohen out for lunch at the Good Earth Cafe in Palo Alto since we were 14 and 16 and wanted to start startups They said they would introduce us to

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    (Stephen ended up cofounding Palantir)

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    Replying to @garrytan

    I just realized

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    wrote about coming to speak at my class and he wrote an editorial about coming to speak. — The slightly squeaky voice on the phone was polite but insistent. 
"I would really like you to speak. Isn't there one day that would be good for you?" The

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    Such an amazing story. The genuine ethos of paying it forward is one of things that makes Silicon Valley truly special. I grew up in Los Gatos and didn't realize at the time how special it was to see a Steve Wozniak, Kevin Compton and others as I went to school with their kids.