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Investor Garry Tan Turned a $300k Bet on Coinbase into $680M

• simonebrunozzi 6y ago
  > What Armstrong didn’t know yet, either: he had a big fan in Tan, who quietly ranked Armstrong an infinite score in YC’s admissions software to ensure the founder’s acceptance into the program, which he ultimate attended that summer, no longer as Bitbank, but Coinbase. Best proof that the YC admission system is broken, and you still need "friends" to skip the line. Garry certainly had good intentions, and he was certainly right... But if you need to manually override the score system, it means the score system isn't working properly.