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President and CEO of Y Combinator; co-founder of Initialized Capital and Posterous.
Personal AGI is a different animal. An agent that runs on your infrastructure, reads from a memory you own, executes procedures you wrote, and compounds. [...] I believe intelligence—intelligence of this kind—should be owned by you, not rented. If you go forth and build this for yourself, 2034 doesn’t have to be like 1984.
AI Verified (Aug 6, 2026)
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Garry Tan, “Own Your Intelligence,” Startup School 2026 talk transcript, August 6, 2026.
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AI Verified Quote defines personal AGI and urges building it; support for building AGI is explicit. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago
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AI Verified Quote urges readers to build personal AGI. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified YC Startup School transcript (Aug. 6, 2026) contains this exact Garry Tan passage. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago
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