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David Lieb

@dflieb
29 posts
2026-02-12
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!
2026-02-12 View on X
Mission Local

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

2026-01-27
Each side is going to see what they want to see, I guess. I know what I see, which is another citizen killed for no good reason. What I'd hope everyone can agree on: our government is deliberately choosing to put citizens in this situation. It needs to stop. They work for us.
2026-01-27 View on X
Axios

As tech CEOs stay silent after two fatal shootings, 450+ workers at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and others urge CEOs to cancel any ICE contracts and speak out

across NVIDIA, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Salesforce, Adobe, PayPal, YouTube, Slack, Meta—we are now hundreds strong.Hemant Taneja /@htaneja:This is not politics as usual. As inves...

Each side is going to see what they want to see, I guess. I know what I see, which is another citizen killed for no good reason. What I'd hope everyone can agree on: our government is deliberately choosing to put citizens in this situation. It needs to stop. They work for us.
2026-01-27 View on X
TechCrunch

Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith Rabois' comments after border agents killed Alex Pretti; Rabois said Pretti was committing a “felony”

To understand the stance of an unwavering Trump loyalist after United States Custom and Enforcement shocked the nation …

Each side is going to see what they want to see, I guess. I know what I see, which is another citizen killed for no good reason. What I'd hope everyone can agree on: our government is deliberately choosing to put citizens in this situation. It needs to stop. They work for us.
2026-01-27 View on X
Spyglass

Tim Cook attending a private White House screening of the documentary Melania hours after US agents killed a man suggests horrible judgment, or worse, cowardice

Tim Cook is captured.  There is simply no other explanation for his actions over the past year or so.

2026-01-26
Each side is going to see what they want to see, I guess. I know what I see, which is another citizen killed for no good reason. What I'd hope everyone can agree on: our government is deliberately choosing to put citizens in this situation. It needs to stop. They work for us.
2026-01-26 View on X
Axios

As tech CEOs stay silent after two fatal shootings, 450+ workers at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and others urge CEOs to cancel any ICE contracts and speak out

Some tech workers are pressuring the industry's top leaders to speak out against ICE after federal officers killed Alex Pretti …

2026-01-15
7 months later, my AI assistant knows ~anything I know, including when my last haircut was. (Wish it had iMessage access!) [image]
2026-01-15 View on X
ZDNET

Google launches Personal Intelligence, a Gemini feature that links to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube history to tailor answers, for paid subscribers

ZDNET's key takeaways  — Personal Intelligence scans your apps to improve Gemini answers.  — The feature is off by default and won't train on sensitive data.

2026-01-14
7 months later, my AI assistant knows ~anything I know, including when my last haircut was. (Wish it had iMessage access!) [image]
2026-01-14 View on X
ZDNET

Google launches Personal Intelligence, a Gemini feature that links to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube history to tailor answers, for paid subscribers

ZDNET's key takeaways  — Personal Intelligence scans your apps to improve Gemini answers.  — The feature is off by default and won't train on sensitive data.

2025-09-24
People often wonder how startups came up with their names. In Greptile's case, it was brainstorming on slack with YC partner @bradflora during the batch. “You could add some stuff after grep to make a new word” “What do you think of https://greptile.com/?” “but is it a multi [image]
2025-09-24 View on X
SiliconANGLE

Greptile, maker of an AI-powered code review tool, raised a $25M Series A led by Benchmark and launches Greptile v3

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :

2025-06-14
Congrats to @HarmanSN and @Canary_Tech on the $80M raise. https://techcrunch.com/... For me, this is a perfect example of what's great about YC — I was an audience member at Demo Day, saw Harman's pitch, got excited, met him for coffee, and invested. Exciting to see them do
2025-06-14 View on X
TechCrunch

Canary, which offers hotel guest management tools, raised an $80M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, valuing the company at about $600M

Canary, the hotel guest management platform, announced Thursday the raise of an $80 million Series D in a round led by Brighton Park Capital.

2025-06-04
This moment from WWDC 2013 when Craig Federighi poked fun at Bump was a not-insignificant motivation I carried for years to make sure Google Photos continually smoked Apple Photos. And it's nice hearing ppl still call it “bumping” on their copycat, more than a decade later. [video]
2025-06-04 View on X
The Verge

Google pauses the rollout of Google Photos' AI-powered Ask Photos feature due to issues with latency, quality, and UX, per a Google product manager's post on X

'Ask Photos isn't where it needs to be,' says a product manager for Google Photos.

2025-05-29
@sundarpichai @googlephotos What a privilege it was to work on such a defining product. Will never forget that first launch and your support. Congrats to the team! [image]
2025-05-29 View on X
The Verge

Google unveils new Photos features, including a redesigned editor with AI features rolling out globally to Android next month and to iOS “later this year”

The UI has been redesigned to focus on Google's AI Magic Editor features.

2024-06-13
It's rare that a YC Demo Day pitch ends up being exactly what a company does, but @HarmanSN laid out their master plan back in 2018. I'll never forget it.
2024-06-13 View on X
TechCrunch

Canary Technologies, which offers tools for hotel guest management, raised a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to nearly $100M

Christine Hall / TechCrunch :

Congrats to @Canary_Tech on their series C fundraise, and far more importantly, on making software that makes hotels run 10x better! https://techcrunch.com/...
2024-06-13 View on X
TechCrunch

Canary Technologies, which offers tools for hotel guest management, raised a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to nearly $100M

Christine Hall / TechCrunch :

2024-04-06
As we take the first coffee break at Demo Day, we're listening to AI-generated intermission music, and we've — statistically — already seen multiple future $1B+ companies. 🤯
2024-04-06 View on X
Fortune

Some investors say YC's winter 2024 batch was stronger than in previous years, noting consumer AI as a key trend; YC says ~50% of this batch is working with AI

2024-03-16
I'll never forget the walk around Pioneer Way I did with Michael in 2013 when we were getting acquired. A decade later, and I'm pumped I get to keep learning from him.
2024-03-16 View on X
Wired

Michael Seibel steps down as YC's managing director, says he did not feel disappointed when he was not tapped as CEO but would have accepted the job if offered

Steven Levy / Wired :

2024-02-29
In light of the Sridhar/Slootman/Snowflake news, just laying this out there: Google buys Sierra. Bret Taylor eventually becomes CEO.
2024-02-29 View on X
CNBC

Snowflake says that CEO Frank Slootman is retiring, and reports Q4 revenue up 32% YoY to $774.7M and Q1 product revenue guidance below est.; SNOW drops 20%+

acq by EMC for $2.4B ServiceNow—$9B rev Snowflake—$2.5B rev Tanay Jaipuria / @tanayj : As the saying goes, you either die a startup or live long enough to appoint a desi CEO [image...

2023-09-21
The 22 companies I worked with this batch got @mwseibel, @eshear, and me dedicated to them. Our advice is absolutely personalized to each of them.
2023-09-21 View on X
TechCrunch

With YC's increasingly heated public attacks against a lesser-known accelerator's founder and some investors, the VC appears curiously on the defensive lately

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :

2023-08-20
Saying “a driverless vehicle collided with a fire truck” is at best misleading and at worst a straight up intentional lie. The fire truck hit the Cruise car. I expect more honesty from a 5th grader. I know you won't respond btw, b/c you are also a coward.
2023-08-20 View on X
TechCrunch

Cruise complies with California DMV's request to halve its fleet, as the regulator probes “recent concerning incidents” involving its robotaxis in San Francisco

Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, has been asked to reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco following …

2023-08-19
Saying “a driverless vehicle collided with a fire truck” is at best misleading and at worst a straight up intentional lie. The fire truck hit the Cruise car. I expect more honesty from a 5th grader. I know you won't respond btw, b/c you are also a coward.
2023-08-19 View on X
TechCrunch

Cruise is complying with a California DMV request to cut its fleet by 50% as the regulator probes “recent concerning incidents” involving Cruise robotaxis

Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, has been asked to reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco following a crash Thursday night with a fire truck.

2022-08-30
Sometimes the universe just delivers exactly the right thing. So excited for @garrytan and @ycombinator, and deeply thankful for @gralston's leadership. https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-30 View on X
Forbes

Y Combinator names Garry Tan as its next president, replacing Geoff Ralston in January 2023; Tan will step away from his role at his firm Initialized Capital

YC gave me my start, and I'm deeply grateful to the community. https://www.forbes.com/... @initialized : News alert: Congratulations to @jenhwolf & @brettdg, our new managing partn...