“I spend about maybe $100[,000] to $200,000 a year on tokens”

TechCrunch / Walter Isaacson's podcast The Builders · Garry Tan spends up to $200K yearly on AI agent tokens at Y Combinator

“It's read all of my email and all of my Dropbox. It's read, like, all of my Apple Notes, even my therapy notes going back 20 years”

TechCrunch / Walter Isaacson's podcast The Builders · Garry Tan spends up to $200K yearly on AI agent tokens at Y Combinator

“Think of it as a Jiminy Cricket on your shoulder at all times. Like, almost anything you want to do, it knows you, and it's there to help.”

TechCrunch / Walter Isaacson's podcast The Builders · Garry Tan spends up to $200K yearly on AI agent tokens at Y Combinator

“We now have an internal AI agent, for instance, named Stray Light that kind of has a personality, and then it has a company brain.”

TechCrunch / Walter Isaacson's podcast The Builders · Garry Tan spends up to $200K yearly on AI agent tokens at Y Combinator

“It's too expensive right now”

TechCrunch / Walter Isaacson's podcast The Builders · Garry Tan spends up to $200K yearly on AI agent tokens at Y Combinator

“So you could imagine a personal AI that you control, that you program.”

TechCrunch / Walter Isaacson's podcast The Builders · Garry Tan spends up to $200K yearly on AI agent tokens at Y Combinator