My uncle worked for a company building airline scheduling software since the mid 90s. Last year he quit to join a startup tackling the same problem. Hopefully they can bring some change to a antiquated system.

Great video Garry, I believe the internet offers major potential for learning. However, now the challenge is staying focused away from distraction when we have access to free entertainment. The winners are those who can literally sit in a room and execute. This is a classic "Warren Buffett" style trait, which is now more important than ever!

Congratulations on becoming YC’s new president & CEO! 🎉

this brings me back to my JetBlue days... the software they had was 80's era and thus required like.2 or 3 weeks of extra training for *each* batch of new employees. they finally invested in half decent software though.

Software changed my entire career path. I’m not a developer but I saw a need for my community in my industry and took the leap of faith to one day help millions of people in my community leveraging software. Software changed my life and I plan on using it to help other people who were like me. Thanks for this video 👏🏽

I like how you posted this video the same morning that the FAA grounded flights due to a computer system outage.

Gary, Excellent timing posting this video today. The FAA's notification system called NOTAM went down today. The backup phone notification system quickly crashed as well. The backup system's builders never anticipated the level of today's traffic when it was built. So all airlines were grounded and the inactivity in the sky is being compared to 9-11. There is still plenty to be built.

Welcome back Garry with a start video of 2023. Looking forward to see the video on Gen AI and whats your perspective on it. Especially vs Google Search and other major significant implications. Hope Im not the only one curious about this topic.

This on a day when FAA software issue grounds all flights...indeed, true! Garry - such an optimistic POV on the world and congrats on the new role as head of YC! My next line of code will be written in conjunction with ChatGPT, guaranteed.

As a consultant and business owner, I'm noticing (more than usual) that a large number of companies are making poor decisions regarding the quality of their software development teams. Whether the motivation is to cut costs for actual budgetary reasons, to show 'profit margins' to private equity firms for a potential buyout (so bogus profit margins versus the team that actually built the software), etc., executive management makes decisions based solely on the bottom line on a spreadsheet. They are outsourcing to low-cost, off-shore teams that will cause more problems in the long run due to tech debt, other teams having to spend time fixing problems, and poor code quality/performance. The problem is that they either do not care or have actually managed good and bad teams. Uber, Facebook, and Google pay engineers competitive salaries because they recognize the importance of skilled software developers. Due to poor decision making for short-term gains/results, we will continue to observe an increase in software failures.

Fantastic insights, Garry! As far as we've all come, it's refreshing perspective to zoom out and understand that we're still all just getting started.

Love the humility in your videos. Thank you for all the great info and inspiration

Awesome video Garry! Autonomous robots (Cars, Cooks, marketing, etc) will see their way through in the upcoming years!

I’m finishing up my studies to become a programmer. Gonna combine my biz experience and hard skill sets to start an empire. Would love to meet you in person in 2024. Cheers Garry

Congratulations Garry... Happy to see you become the CEO of YC...Keep winning!

Thanks for this video, Gary! Ever since reading Superminds by Thomas Malone, I’ve been fascinated with the opportunities in group decision making. Do you know of any startups building in the space? I couldn’t find much in my search. Appreciate the time!

Thank you for all the videos you made. You are my role model.

So I that 30 years, Southwest never had an BDR reach out and speak with these possible issues? I think the airline didn’t want to spend money and figured they’d cross that bridge when they get to it 3:10 our ability to amplify us via tools goes back to stone age. The arrowhead amplified multiple aspects of a human. Our nails, our teeth and our digestive system. We didn’t need the sharpest nails or teeth to take down and dismember the animal. And even though our digestive system has a PH balance close to scavengers (we were scavengers), the sharp edges began the process of breaking down the animal pre-mastication and intestinal breakdown

Software in infrastructure is going to be the next big challenge to tackle. How much of our electric grid, water filtration systems even factories run on software.

Thanks Gary. "Software changed my life and I want it to change yours." Truyly inspiring.

That's why I never regret learning programming, even though, self thought (out of curiosity and passion).

My interest is mainly in construction. Automating the process, because it causes so much death and disease right now as it is.

feeling good as a software engineer...that my career is safe for the next 2decades atleast

The best line of code is the line you didn’t have to write.

Hi Garry, I agree with you. Many innovative solutions have been and will be software base ideas. The more we use software the more dependent and vulnerable we may be as a user and a company providing a service. I have been doing Software QA for 15 years. I stress the importance and good testing strategies and diverse testing methodology. We have had many conversations about test automation and outsourcing the bulk of the work but I am still a fan of user testing.

Hey Gary, your content has taught me plenty & kept me motivated on some long nights over the past few years. What advice would you give a founder with no connections that’s has taken a MVP to market, achieved market & product validation. But doesn’t have the ability to code. (Everything has been boot strapped).

Inspirational as always, Garry

@Flexport, but for commercial airlines. I know commercial airlines are a tiny sliver of industrial shipping, but I'd bet the systems that source, onboard, track and confirm the last mile and delivery of products and packages could be adapted, innovated, or enhanced to solve some of commercial airline's most pressing logistics and decision flow problems.

Really great! PS: Background music is a little loud IMO

Maybe it won’t be “what line of code will I write” anymore, but what problem do I know well enough to prompt ChatGPT to write the code to solve it.

Thanks Garry for another inspirational video. My problem is access to capital other than the small amounts < 10K which are of no use. How do I solve that? Thanks.

Garry, this was informative and inspirational as usual. I'd love to have an idea which could materialise into something like a start up. I'm a software engineer but I have awful ideas and no business acumen. Do you have any advice for me please?

Wow mind boggling . What an inspiration Garry

Hasn't it been like that for over 10 years now? It's like saying electricity was bad when we got it -- it made our lives much easier.

How can builders find these problems to build for? Speaking from a traditional SWE background, I know about CS and the pure tech industry, but these spaces already understand the importance of software and have many smart people building. What I don't know a lot about are these areas underserved by software like Southwest Airlines' decades old technology, but they're the biggest areas of opportunity.

Great video as usual! When a video about foreign founders who wanna make it in the US or worldwide?

The biggest blind spot in the tech/ robotics world is their ability to communicate with potential customers. Tech talks over the customer and the customer/ manufacturer doesn't know where to begin or how to implement robotics into their unique product or service. What is needed is someone who has experience in both areas thus having the ability to communicate. I could give you dozens of examples. Look at the surfboard industry or the the huge concrete precast industry......

Can you please make a video on how to succed on IT startup.

Are you going to make an updated video with the rise of LLMs? Especially considering how LLM applications are making a big impact in “boring” or traditional businesses with unstructured data with were problems unsolvable before.

Keep it up Garry love how this comment section isn't full of bots!

Hi Garry, can you give advice for solo founder : how to build a team?

People are beginning to understand the interconnectedness of our actions, where what we do and want can have far-reaching effects on others beyond our immediate community. Ego can drive some individuals to believe they are entitled to benefits over others, even if it comes at the expense of others. Those with power, wealth, fame, etc. only answer to shareholders, who are more concerned with financial returns than ethical practices. This creates a dangerous situation where companies prioritize profits over ethical considerations and can lead to devastating consequences on a global scale. The current system makes it challenging for company leaders to prioritize sustainability and long-term impact, as they are pressured to cut costs at every opportunity. As a result, the consequences of their actions are often left for future generations to deal with, while the leaders themselves retire comfortably without facing any repercussions.

I am an aspiring founder but don't have a background in tech. Do I need to learn about computers from the basics to the cutting edge before I can hop on the AI wave? I already have innovative ideas for AI business. Great video by the way, keep doing what you do.

Could someone please help me with the name of the music at the end?

Garry, thank you so much for your work! I have a question, is it possible to apply to YC combinator even if you don't live an America?

Such a great video! Subscribed ✓

😎Congratulations Garry!

Note to self: File cabinet, fax machine, or call centre.

I have so many tech ideas solutions for so many problems, but I don’t know how to write any code. That’s what I need. I will figure it out.

everytime the ending gives me goosebumps..

software changed my life also, Thank you

Best definition of the internet: It's an opportunity machine!

its called Palantir

Alright. I'm sold. I'm writing a paper on a non-SEO GTM tool. Would you like to read it? Edit: It's n-sided marketplace with built-in data network.

Very nice, congrats on YC. For thouse out of the loop... Why were u chosen to lead YC? Well deserved

Impressive video

Very inspiring….thanks Gary and congratulations on your achievement becoming CEO of YC 😊

When is the pod coming @Gary? And im a software engineer, can I send you my resume? Are you hiring?

Amazing video as always Garry. "Software is a bicycle for the mind"- great insight!

That's a lot of bot, here's a real comment. I'd be really interested to know your perspective on AI and how it's gonna change the current world and most importantly tech industry/jobs, world.

Ancient Egyptians built pyramids without software, because they had a good process put in place. Before writing and buy software ensure that you have a good process, that can be do manually if software fails.

I bearly know how to code, but I have a good software idea. Where I should sell my idea and how ?

Love this

Thanks for making such awesome content ❤

This is just awesome

I'm ready.

Thank God i will not be jobless being a software engineer

What will happen if everyone can code? I love to sell. Should I drop this and go learn code?🙈

Life is code and yet we choose to code unlife to help us live the code of life.

Great video

Another industry is healthcare. EMR systems are so old!!!!!! It’s never user friendly. Quite the opposite.

Alex Karp: Software is eating the world. Is that true ?

Let's go!

*Software is still eating the world

what if you have a great idea but have absolute no clue about how to go about creating the software

Soundly period

A1

I will write a code to run AI :) It's the next thing that will eat software!

👍🤓👍

you have similar voice to @eliottrades