Garry Tan on Startup School by Y Combinator
Design for Startups (Part 2) by Garry Tan
Worth hearing for unusually concrete guidance on when and how to hire startup designers, a subject largely absent from the comparison corpus. Some user-empathy and openness advice overlaps later appearances, but the design-team mechanics and Soylent anecdote keep this well above generic founder counsel.
Garry Tan gives practical advice on when and how startups should hire designers, where to find them, how to attract them, and how to evaluate their communication and user-centered thinking. The Q&A covers About Us pages, user interviews, prototyping, openness versus secrecy, and the potential value of controversy.